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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.
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 ...
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 ...
The hoax alleges that a Pan Am Douglas DC-4 with 54 passengers and 10 crew members disappeared without a trace on a flight from New York City to Miami on July 2, 1955. After 30 years (37 in some sources), the plane was sighted again near Caracas, and then after landing at the airport there, the plane immediately took off again and finally landed at its original destination in Miami.
Pan Am Flight 214. Pan Am Flight 214 was a scheduled flight of Pan American World Airways from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Baltimore, and then to Philadelphia in the United States. On December 8, 1963, while flying from Baltimore to Philadelphia, the Boeing 707-121 crashed near Elkton, Maryland. All 81 passengers and crew on the plane were killed.
Bartelings and the Pan Am Museum’s hope to create a flight for Miami is based on the city’s importance in the airline’s history. After starting in Key West in 1927, the airline moved ...
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 ...
The Pan Am Museum Foundation was started in 2015 by a group of former Pan Am’s flight attendants. They saw it as an extension of the Pan Am Historical Foundation. The founders are all volunteers ...