Boeing 747 N731

17 November 1974 · Honolulu, Hawaii, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 17 November 1974 at about 23:55 local time, a Boeing 747 registered N731, operated by Pan American World Airways, Inc., was involved in an incident during in flight near Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. 172 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: 17 November 1974 at 23:55
Classification: Incident
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 747
Registration: N731
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: Pan American World Airways, Inc.
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: S → Tokyo, Japan
Aircraft damage: Minor
Weather: VMC
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 4-0025

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
172	0	0	0	172

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

FIRE IN NR 3 BEARING CAVITY, PENETRATED TO ACCESSDRIVE GR BOX.5 ESCAPE SLIDES MALFUNCTIONED.

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 4-0025, 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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