Boeing 707 N424PA

28 October 1968 · No.pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocean North Latitudes · Serious injuries

Summary

On 28 October 1968 at about 22:00 local time, a Boeing 707 registered N424PA, operated by Pan American World Airways, Inc., was involved in an accident during in flight near No.pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocean North Latitudes. 64 people were on board and 2 were seriously injured, 2 had minor injuries. The aircraft was not damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 28 October 1968 at 22:00
Classification: Accident
Location: No.pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocean North Latitudes
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 707
Registration: N424PA
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: Pan American World Airways, Inc.
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: Tokyo, Japan → San Francisco, Calif
Aircraft damage: None
Weather: VMC
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 1-0071

People

2 people were seriously injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
64	0	2	2	60

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

PX WARNED TO KEEP SEAT BELTS LOOSELY FASTENED.

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 1-0071, 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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