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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.
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]
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 ...
The aircraft then flew to Cairo, Egypt over uncertainty of the airport at Dawson's Field handling such a large aircraft as a 747. The passengers and crew were evacuated and seconds later the aircraft was blown up. 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
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.
On July 17, 1996, at approximately 8:31 p.m. EDT, twelve minutes after takeoff, the Boeing 747-100 serving the flight exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, United States. [2]: 1 All 230 people on board died in the crash; it is the third-deadliest aviation accident in U.S. history.
Pages in category "Accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 747" The following 70 pages are in this category, out of 70 total. ... Pan Am Flight 103; Pan Am ...