Aviation Crash Map

Airbus A-300 N209PA

23 May 1988 · Near San Juan · No injuries

Summary

On 23 May 1988 at about 22:44 local time, a Airbus A-300 registered N209PA, operated by Pan American World Airways, was involved in an incident near Near San Juan. 286 people were on board and nobody was injured. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date
at 22:44
Classification
Incident
Location
Near San Juan
Coordinates
Not recorded
Aircraft
Airbus A-300
Registration
N209PA
Category
Airplane
Engines
2
Operating rule
Part 121: Air Carrier
Purpose of flight
Unknown
Phase of flight
Not recorded
Route
New York City → Crcs, Venezuela
Aircraft damage
Not recorded
Weather
VMC
Light
Day
NTSB number
MIA88IA176

People

Nobody was injured.

On board Died Serious Minor Uninjured
286 0 0 0 286

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

PAN AM FLT 217 (AIRBUS A300, N209PA) WAS CLRD BY NEW YORK CENTER OCEANIC CTL AREA (OCA) TO PROCEED SOUTH ON AIRWAY AMBER 300 AT FL 290 OVER THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. AS IT WAS EN ROUTE, AMERICAN FLT 902 DEPARTED SAN JUAN (SJU), PR FOR A NORTHBOUND FLT ON THE SAME AIRWAY UNDER IFR CTL BY SJU COMBINED CENTER & RADAR APCH CTL (CERAP). ON-THE-JOB TRAINING WAS BEING GIVEN TO THE CERAP CTLR. AS THE CTLR'S WORKLOAD WAS GETTING 'BUSY' WITH 'A HVY RUSH HOUR,' HIS SUPVR SCANNED THE BAY TO DETERMINE THE TRAFFIC (BUT DID NOT SEE THE FLT PROGRESS STRIP FOR FLT 217) & TOLD THE TRAINEE TO ASSIGN FLT 902 TO FL 290. THE TRAINEE COORDINATED THIS WITH OCA SINCE IT WAS THE WRONG DRCTN FOR THAT ALT. OCA APPROVED & FLT 902 WAS ASSIGNED FL 290. SUBSEQUENTLY, THE 2 ACFT CONVERGED & PASSED EACH OTHER WITH AN ESTD 300' LATERAL SEPN. THE NEAR COLLISION OCCURRED IN A NON-RADAR INVIRONMENT OVER THE OCEAN ABT 200 MI NORTH OF SAN JUAN. THE OCA CTLR SAID SHE WAS AWARE BOTH FLTS WOULD BE AT THE SAME ALT, BUT APPROVAL WAS BASED ON PREMISE THAT SJU WAS AWARE & WOULD PROVIDE OTR SEPN.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

Aircraft involved

Aircraft Registration Operator Damage
Airbus A-300 A300 N209PA Pan American World Airways -
Boeing 727 727 N727AA American Airlines -

Other Airbus A-300 accidents

Date Aircraft Location Operator Outcome Died
24 Oct 1988 Airbus A-300-600R
N70054
San Juan
no coordinates
American Airlines, Inc. Minor injuries -
28 Nov 1988 Airbus A-300-600
N80057
San Juan
no coordinates
American Airlines Minor injuries -
3 Aug 1987 Airbus A-300-B4-203
N966C
Denver, Colorado, United States - No injuries -
12 Jul 1989 Airbus A-300
N7062A
San Juan
no coordinates
American Airlines Fatal -
11 May 1989 Airbus A-300-B4-203
N972C
San Diego, California, United States
no coordinates
Continental Airlines Serious injuries -
2 Jul 1991 Airbus A-300-605R
N41063
Newark, New Jersey, United States
no coordinates
American Airlines, Inc. Serious injuries -

All 20 records for this type