Boeing 707 N414PA

7 February 1969 · So.pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocean South Latitudes · Serious injuries

Summary

On 7 February 1969 at about 04:26 local time, a Boeing 707 registered N414PA, operated by Pan American World Airways, Inc., was involved in an accident during in flight near So.pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocean South Latitudes. 83 people were on board and one was seriously injured, 8 had minor injuries. The aircraft was not damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 7 February 1969 at 04:26
Classification: Accident
Location: So.pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocean South Latitudes
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 707
Registration: N414PA
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: Pan American World Airways, Inc.
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: Hong Kong, China → Sydney, Australia
Aircraft damage: None
Weather: VMC
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 1-0059

People

1 person was seriously injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
83	0	1	8	74

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

PENETRATED TOP OF CB CLOUD FLYING IN STRATUS LAYER.RADAR DIDNT SHOW CB.

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 1-0059, 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 South Latitudes 8 Pan American World Airways, Inc. 113 Boeing 707 201 1969 5,082

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