Pan Am Flight 6
1956 passenger plane crash over the Pacific ocean / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pan Am Flight 6 (registration N90943, and sometimes erroneously called Flight 943) was a round-the-world airline flight that ditched in the Pacific Ocean on October 16, 1956, after two of its four engines failed. Flight 6 left Philadelphia on October 12 as a DC-6B and flew eastward to Europe and Asia on a multi-stop trip. On the evening of October 15 the flight left Honolulu on a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser Clipper named Sovereign Of The Skies (Pan Am fleet number 943, registered N90943). The accident was the basis for the 1958 film Crash Landing.
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Accident | |
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Date | October 16, 1956 |
Summary | Engine failure, ditching at sea |
Site | Pacific Ocean Northeast of Hawaii 30°02′N 140°09′W |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Boeing 377 Stratocruiser 10-29 |
Aircraft name | Clipper Sovereign Of The Skies |
Operator | Pan American World Airways |
Registration | N90943 |
Flight origin | Marine Air Terminal, New York City |
Stopover | London Heathrow Airport, London |
1st stopover | Frankfurt Airport, Frankfurt |
2nd stopover | Beirut International Airport, Beirut |
3rd stopover | Drigh Road Airstrip, Karachi |
4th stopover | Yangon International Airport, Rangoon |
5th stopover | Don Mueang International Airport, Bangkok |
6th stopover | Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong; Tokyo International Airport, Tokyo |
Last stopover | Honolulu International Airport, Honolulu |
Destination | San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco |
Passengers | 24 |
Crew | 7 |
Fatalities | 0 |
Survivors | 31 (all) |
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