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Thomas G. Plaskett (CEO, 1988–1991) Russell L. Ray Jr. (CEO, 1991) Pan American World Airways, originally founded as Pan American Airways[2] and more commonly known as Pan Am, was an airline that was the principal and largest international air carrier and unofficial overseas flag carrier of the United States for much of the 20th century.
Neerja Bhanot (7 September 1963 – 5 September 1986) [1] [2] was an Indian flight purser.On 5 September 1986, she saved a large number of passengers onboard Pan Am Flight 73, which had been hijacked by four terrorists from the Abu Nidal Organization after it made a stopover at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan.
Pan Am is an American period drama television series created by writer Jack Orman. [2] Named for the iconic Pan American World Airways, [3][4][5][6] the series features the aircraft pilots and stewardesses of the fictional Pan Am Clipper Majestic, operating in the early 1960s at the beginning of the commercial Jet Age.
Pan Am Flight 103 The remains of the forward section from Clipper Maid of the Seas on Tundergarth Hill Bombing Date 21 December 1988 (1988-12-21) Summary In-flight breakup due to terrorist bombing Site Lockerbie, Scotland 55°06′56″N 003°21′31″W / 55.11556°N 3.35861°W / 55.11556; -3.35861 Total fatalities 270 Aircraft Aircraft type Boeing 747-121 Aircraft name Clipper ...
61. The Tenerife airport disaster occurred on 27 March 1977, when two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport [ 1 ] (now Tenerife North Airport) on the Spanish island of Tenerife. [ 2 ][ 3 ] The collision occurred when KLM Flight 4805 initiated its takeoff run in dense fog while Pan Am Flight 1736 was still on the ...
Pan Am Flight 7 was a westbound round-the-world flight operated by Pan American World Airways. On November 8, 1957, the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser 10-29 serving the flight, named Clipper Romance of the Skies, crashed in the Pacific Ocean en route to Honolulu International Airport from San Francisco. The crash killed all 36 passengers and eight ...
Dawson's Field hijackings. Three airliners were destroyed by explosion at Dawson's Field on 12 September 1970. In September 1970, members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) hijacked four airliners bound for New York City and one for London. Three aircraft were forced to land at Dawson's Field, a remote desert airstrip ...
1973 Rome airport attacks. In December 1973, a terrorist group executed a series of attacks originating at Rome-Fiumicino Airport in Italy which resulted in the deaths of 34 people. [1] The attacks began with an airport-terminal invasion and hostage-taking, followed by the firebombing of a Pan Am aircraft and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight.