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Pan Am Flight 914 is an urban legend that a Douglas DC-4 disappeared after a takeoff in 1955 and only landed again three decades later. The legend alleges that a Pan Am Douglas DC-4 with 57 passengers and 5 crew members disappeared without a trace on a flight from New York City to Miami on July 2, 1955.
A number of passengers used false identities. Pilot and copilot were released 21 days later but the plane was never returned nor found. [198] January 2, 2011: Robinson R44 (LV-ZYO) 1 (Alejandro Ferzola) Unknown Argentina: En route from Brandsen to Santa Teresita, Argentina. [199] June 8, 2012: Piper PA-31-310 Navajo (N174BH) 1: Unknown Lake ...
Both airplanes were destroyed in the collision. All 248 passengers and crew aboard the KLM plane died, as did 335 passengers and crew aboard the Pan Am plane, [37] primarily due to the fire and explosions resulting from the fuel spilled and ignited in the impact. The other 61 passengers and crew aboard the Pan Am aircraft survived.
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As the plane neared the airport, air traffic controllers notified its pilots of about 38 mph wind gusts. “Might be a slight bump in the glide path,” the air traffic worker said. “There will ...
The crew consisted of Captain George T. Kunz (age 55), employed by National Airlines since 1956, who had qualified to fly the Boeing 727 in 1967 and accumulated 18,109 flight hours in his career with 5,358 hours on the Boeing 727; First Officer Leonard G. Sanderson Jr. (31), employed by National Airlines since 1976, with 4,848 flight hours of which 842 hours were on the Boeing 727; and Flight ...
On Wednesday, the Medical Examiner's Office identified the victim as 37-year-old Steven Dreuitt of Philadelphia. In an update Sunday, Parker said that the number of injured victims increased to 22 ...
About ninety seconds later, at 15:30, the plane made an unpowered ditching, descending southwards at about 125 knots (140 mph; 230 km/h) into the middle of the North River section of the Hudson tidal estuary, at 37] on the New York side of the state line, roughly opposite West 50th Street (near the Intrepid Museum) in Midtown Manhattan and Port ...