About to land on runway 28L on flight AZ282 from Rome-Fiumicino. Delivered to Alitalia as I-DIRC in 1976. To People Express Airlines as N576PE in 1984. Merged into Continental Air Lines in 1987. Reregistered as N17406 in 1990. Converted to a freighter for TNT Express Worldwide as EI-EWW in 1995. Reregistered as OY-SEU in 1997. To Kitty Hawk Air Cargo as N1269Y in 2000. Withdrawn from use at Ardmore, OK in 2007. Still there in 2013. Later scrapped.

Alitalia was a late customer for 727s (first deliveries in late 1976), and withdrew them after only a few years service (sold to People Express in 1984/85).