Boeing 747 N743PA

1 June 1979 · Agana, Other-U.s.territories&Posses. · No injuries

Summary

On 1 June 1979 at about 07:35 local time, a Boeing 747 registered N743PA, operated by Pan American World Airways, Inc., was involved in an incident during in flight near Agana, Other-U.s.territories&Posses.. 334 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was not damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 1 June 1979 at 07:35
Classification: Incident
Location: Agana, Other-U.s.territories&Posses.
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 747
Registration: N743PA
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: Pan American World Airways, Inc.
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: S → Manila, Philippines
Aircraft damage: None
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 4-0014

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
334	0	0	0	334

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

RAPID DECOMPRESSION.LOSS OF OUTFLOW VALVE CONTROL.

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 4-0014, 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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