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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. It was the first airline to fly worldwide ...
Pan Am Flight 914 is a hoax that a Douglas DC-4 disappeared after a takeoff in 1955 and only landed again three decades later. 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 2nd, 1955. After 30 years (37 in some sources), the plane ...
Flight 7, operated by Boeing 377-10-29 Stratocruiser Clipper Romance of the Skies, disappeared while on the San Francisco-Honolulu leg of a round-the-world flight with 44 on board; wreckage and 19 bodies were found six days later 900 miles northeast of Honolulu and 90 miles north of the intended flight route. The cause of the crash was not ...
358. Pan Am Flight 73 was a Pan American World Airways flight from Bombay, India, to New York, United States, with scheduled stops in Karachi, Pakistan, and Frankfurt, West Germany . On September 5, 1986, the Boeing 747-121 serving the flight was hijacked while on the ground at Karachi by four armed Palestinian terrorists of the Abu Nidal ...
4. Pan Am Flight 759 was a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight from Miami to San Diego, with en route stops in New Orleans and Las Vegas. On July 9, 1982, the Boeing 727 flying this route crashed in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner after being forced down by a microburst shortly after takeoff. All 145 on board, as well as eight people ...
Armando Martinez, at right, vice president of flight operations at Miami Air International, checks out a model of a Pan American Airways 747 jet named after founder Juan Trippe with Tomas Romero ...
Pan Am Flight 214 was a scheduled flight of Pan American World Airways from Isla Verde International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Friendship Airport near Baltimore, and then to Philadelphia International Airport. On December 8, 1963, while flying from Baltimore to Philadelphia, the Boeing 707-121 serving the flight crashed near Elkton ...
United Airlines Flight 232. / 42.40806°N 96.38389°W / 42.40806; -96.38389. United Airlines Flight 232 was a regularly scheduled United Airlines flight from Stapleton International Airport in Denver to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, continuing to Philadelphia International Airport. On July 19, 1989, the DC-10 (registered as ...