Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Boeing 747-121, registration N747PA, manufacturer's serial number 19639, first flew on April 11, 1969 and was delivered to Pan Am on October 3, 1970.It was the second 747 off Boeing's production line but was delivered nearly ten months after Pan Am's first 747 flight.
The KLM 747 was within 100 m (330 ft) of the Pan Am and moving at approximately 140 knots (260 km/h; 160 mph) when it left the ground. Its nose landing gear cleared the Pan Am, but its left-side engines, lower fuselage, and main landing gear struck the upper right side of the Pan Am's fuselage, [ 11 ] ripping apart the center of the Pan Am jet ...
This was the first loss of a Boeing 747. May 29, 1971 Flight 442, a Boeing 707, was hijacked to Cuba by one person. [55] July 2, 1972 Flight 841, a Boeing 747, was hijacked over the South China Sea by 24-year-old Nguyen Thai Binh in protest of the US involvement in the Vietnam War as well has his expulsion from the US. The aircraft continued to ...
Pan Am Flight 103 (PA103/PAA103) was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via a stopover in London and another in New York City. Shortly after 19:00 on 21 December 1988, the Boeing 747 "Clipper Maid of the Seas" was destroyed by a bomb while flying over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew aboard. [1]
Pan Am Flight 93 was the first hull loss of a Boeing 747 (747-121), the result of terrorism after it was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. On September 6, 1970, a new Pan Am aircraft flying from Amsterdam to New York City was hijacked and flown first to Beirut, then to Cairo. Shortly after the occupants were ...
Category: Accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 747. 22 languages. ... Pan Am Flight 73; Pan Am Flight 103; Pan Am Flight 830; Pan Am Flight 841; Pan Am Flight ...
Pan Am Flight 841 was a commercial passenger flight of a Boeing 747 from San Francisco, California to Saigon, South Vietnam which was hijacked over the South China Sea on 2 July 1972, ostensibly as an act of protest concerning United States involvement in the Vietnam War as well as the expulsion from the U.S. of the South Vietnamese hijacker, a ...
The investigation relied heavily on circumstantial evidence, including prior incidents involving cargo doors. On March 10, 1987, Pan Am Flight 125, another Boeing 747, outbound from London Heathrow Airport, encountered pressurization problems at 20,000 feet (6,100 m), causing the crew to abort the flight and return to the airport.