Boeing 707 N17321

26 August 1969 · No.pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocean North Latitudes · Serious injuries

Summary

On 26 August 1969 at about 09:40 local time, a Boeing 707 registered N17321, operated by Continental Air Lines, Inc., was involved in an accident during in flight near No.pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocean North Latitudes. 173 people were on board and one was seriously injured, one had minor injuries. The aircraft was not damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 26 August 1969 at 09:40
Classification: Accident
Location: No.pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocean North Latitudes
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 707
Registration: N17321
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: Continental Air Lines, Inc.
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: Honolulu, Hawaii → Clark Afb, Pi
Aircraft damage: None
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 1-0032

People

1 person was seriously injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
173	0	1	1	171

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

RADAR DIDNT SHOW RETURN. PLT HAD AVOIDED KNOWN TSTM ACTIVITY. HALFWAY BETWEEN GUAM AND PI.

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 1-0032, 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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Pacific Ocean North Latitudes 50 Continental Air Lines, Inc. 42 Boeing 707 201 1969 5,082

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