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Originally Posted by A930Rocket
That looks cool, but had to be a tight fit with everyone on board...
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Orion, military version of the Lockheed Electra... in civvy version was an airliner.
...carried 75 or so passengers... or more in the longer version. Not a tight fit, I don't think.
They had an engine mount problem resulting in a couple fatal crashes. It was fixed (expensive) but the luster was off the civvy version and it lost popularity.
An Orion and it's crew was captured by N. Korea; crew was later returned as was the plane, in pieces.
Edit: Yes, oops, China (brain skip - thanks, Joe). I met one of the guys that was friends with the crew and helped re-assembling the P3 after we got it back...