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January 30: Pan Am Flight 806, a 707-321B, crashed at Pago Pago, and 97 were killed in American Samoa's worst air accident. [1] April 22: Pan Am Flight 812, a 707-321B, crashed into a mountain while preparing for landing after a 4-hour, 20-minute flight from Hong Kong to Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. All 107 people on board were killed. [38]
The aircraft was a Boeing 707-121 registered with tail number N709PA. [1]: 1 Named the Clipper Tradewind, [12] it was the oldest commercial jet airliner in the United States at the time of the crash. [2] It had been delivered to Pan Am on October 27, 1958, and had flown a total of 14,609 hours.
The crash of Flight 812 was a wake-up call for Pan Am. Flight 812 was the third 707 the airline had lost in the Pacific in less than a year after Pan Am Flight 806 in Pago Pago on 30 January 1974 and Pan Am Flight 816 in Papeete on 22 July 1973. Following the crash, Pan Am addressed the issue and encouraged an early form of Crew Resource ...
Flight 119, a Boeing 707, was hijacked to Egypt by one person. [52] August 2, 1970 Flight 299, operated by Boeing 747-121 N736PA Clipper Victor, was hijacked to Cuba by a gun-wielding man who claimed that he had a bottle of nitroglycerin. This was the first hijacking of a Boeing 747. [53] This aircraft would be lost in the crash of Flight 1736 ...
Pan Am Flight 806 was an international scheduled flight from Auckland, New Zealand, to Los Angeles, California, with intermediate stops at Pago Pago, American Samoa and Honolulu, Hawaii. On January 30, 1974, the Boeing 707 Clipper Radiant crashed on approach to Pago Pago International Airport , killing 87 passengers and ten crew members.
Pan Am Flight 816 was an international flight from Auckland, New Zealand, to San Francisco, California, via Tahiti, French Polynesia, and Los Angeles, California. It was operated by a Pan Am Boeing 707-321B bearing the registration N417PA and named Clipper Winged Racer . [ 1 ]
Wreckage of the Boeing 707 was found 11.4 miles (9.9 nmi; 18.3 km) from Caracas. All 51 passengers and crew died in the crash. [1] [4] [5] [6] Various aircraft and boats, both naval and civilian, were employed in the search and recovery operation. Some reports stated that many bodies were eaten by sharks. [4]
Pan Am Flight 160 was a scheduled cargo flight which crashed on November 3, 1973. The Boeing 707 of Pan Am crashed after smoke in the cockpit prevented the crew from keeping control of the aircraft, killing all three occupants on board.