Boeing 747 N743PA

24 May 1972 · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 24 May 1972 at about 18:45 local time, a Boeing 747 registered N743PA, operated by Pan American World Airways, Inc., was involved in an incident during the landing phase of flight near Boston, Massachusetts, United States. 92 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was slightly damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 24 May 1972 at 18:45
Classification: Incident
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Nearest airport: Logan Intl
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 747
Registration: N743PA
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: Pan American World Airways, Inc.
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Baltimore, Md → London, England
Aircraft damage: Minor
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 4-0012

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
92	0	0	0	92

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

FUEL CTL VALVE NR 3 ENG MALFUNCTIONED. ENG TORCHED COMING OUT OF REVERSE.

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 4-0012, 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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