A number of other airlines also flew Boeing 747 combis during the 1980s including Air Canada , Air Gabon , Air India ( Boeing 747-300 combi version ) , Alitalia , Avianca , CAAC Airlines , Cameroon Airlines , China Airlines , El Al , Iberia Airlines , Iraqi Airways , Pakistan International Airlines , Qantas , Royal Jordanian Airlines , Sabena , South African Airways , Swissair , UTA and Varig . Air Canada also earlier operated Douglas DC-8 combi aircraft . In addition , Sabena was operating McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 combis at this time as well . There was also a combi version of the successor to the DC-10 being the McDonnell Douglas MD-11C which was operated by Alitalia . Uganda Airlines operated Boeing 707 combi aircraft . During the early 1990s , Garuda Indonesia Airlines was operating Boeing 747 combis between Jakarta and Los Angeles via Honolulu . Alaska Airlines also flew the 737-400 combi on the “ milk run ” . This is a route from Anchorage to Ketchican to Wrangell to Petersburg to Seattle and then back to Anchorage Some now defunct airlines from embattled nations flew combi aircraft . Air Rhodesia had a Boeing 720 combi that it operated when Rhodesia was a nation , acquired in 1967 and flown till shortly after the dissolution of the nation and state airline . It was sold to South African Airways which because of the apartheid regime flew a number of combi aircraft . One of the most infamous of these was the South African Airways Flight 295 , a Boeing 747 combi named Helderberg , which was a scheduled commercial flight from Taiwan to South Africa that suffered a catastrophic in-flight fire in the cargo area and crashed into the Indian Ocean east of Mauritius on 28 November 1987 , killing everyone on board . Air Vietnam the official state airline of South Vietnam possessed at least one Boeing 727-100 combi that it had obtained from Continental Air Services ( CASI ) , a subsidiary airline of Continental Airlines set up to provide operations and airlift support in Southeast Asia , in the mid-1960s . Under this agreement , CASI would share passengers and cargo routes with Air Vietnam on certain domestic and international routes . During the Fall of Saigon it was destroyed during shelling of Tan Son Nhat International Airport
South African Airways Flight 295
South African Airways Flight 295
Combi aircraft