Boeing 707 N720PA

27 April 1962 · Manila, Other-Foreign Countries · No injuries

Summary

On 27 April 1962 at about 15:22 local time, a Boeing 707 registered N720PA, operated by Pan American World Airways, Inc., was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Manila, Other-Foreign Countries. 53 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 27 April 1962 at 15:22
Classification: Accident
Location: Manila, Other-Foreign Countries
Nearest airport: Manila Intl
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 707
Registration: N720PA
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: Pan American World Airways, Inc.
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Singapore, Malay → S
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 1-0039

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
53	0	0	0	53

Probable cause

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

LND 80 FT SHORT OF RWY. GR HIT 8 INCH RWY LIP, FAILED.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

No coordinates. The source record does not contain a latitude and longitude, so this accident cannot be shown on the map. Everything else about it is on this page.

Source

NTSB record 1-0039, from the public aviation accident database.

Records from before 1982 are not in the NTSB's online investigation search. The full dataset can be downloaded from data.ntsb.gov/avdata.

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