Boeing 707 N886PA

7 April 1975 · St Johns, Canada · Fatal

Summary

On 7 April 1975 at about 15:50 local time, a Boeing 707 registered N886PA, operated by Pan American World Airways, Inc., was involved in an incident during in flight near St Johns, Canada. 184 people were on board and one died. The aircraft was not damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 7 April 1975 at 15:50
Classification: Incident
Location: St Johns, Canada
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 707
Registration: N886PA
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: Pan American World Airways, Inc.
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: Zurich, Switzerland → Indianapolis, In
Aircraft damage: None
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 4-0005

People

1 person died.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
184	1	0	0	183

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

OUTFLOW VALVE OPENED DUE TO FAULTY RELAY.

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 4-0005, 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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