Pan Am Flight 6 ditching in the Pacific Ocean, photographed from US Coast Guard Cutter Pontchartrain. Note that engine #4 appears to be missing its propeller blades.
Accident
Date
October 16, 1956
Summary
Engine failure, ditching at sea
Site
Pacific Ocean Northeast of Hawaii 30°02′N140°09′W / 30.033°N 140.150°W / 30.033; -140.150
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Boeing 377 Stratocruiser 10-29
Aircraft name
Clipper Sovereign Of The Skies
Operator
Pan American World Airways
Registration
N90943
Flight origin
Marine Air Terminal, New York City
Stopover
London Heathrow Airport, London
1st stopover
Frankfurt Airport, Frankfurt
2nd stopover
Beirut International Airport, Beirut
3rd stopover
Drigh Road Airstrip, Karachi
4th stopover
Yangon International Airport, Rangoon
5th stopover
Don Mueang International Airport, Bangkok
6th stopover
Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong; Tokyo International Airport, Tokyo
Last stopover
Honolulu International Airport, Honolulu
Destination
San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco
Passengers
24
Crew
7
Fatalities
0
Survivors
31 (all)
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Pan Am Flight 6 ditching
Pan Am Flight 6 (registration N90943, and sometimes erroneously called Flight 943) was a round-the-world airline flight that ditched in the Pacific Ocean on October 16, 1956, after two of its four engines failed. Flight 6 left Philadelphia on October 12 as a DC-6B and flew eastward to Europe and Asia on a multi-stop trip. On the evening of October 15 the flight left Honolulu on a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser Clipper named Sovereign Of The Skies (Pan Am fleet number 943, registered N90943). The accident was the basis for the 1958 film Crash Landing.
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