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Pan Am Flight 759
N4737, the aircraft involved, pictured in May 1982, two months before the accident.
Accident
DateJuly 9, 1982
SummaryMicroburst-induced wind shear
SiteNew Orleans International Airport, Kenner, Louisiana
United States
29°59′15″N 90°14′08″W / 29.98750°N 90.23556°W / 29.98750; -90.23556
Total fatalities153
Total injuries4
Aircraft
Aircraft typeBoeing 727-235
Aircraft nameClipper Defiance
OperatorPan Am
IATA flight No.PA759
ICAO flight No.PAA759
Call signCLIPPER 759
RegistrationN4737
Flight originMiami International Airport
1st stopoverNew Orleans Int'l Airport
Last stopoverMcCarran Int'l Airport
DestinationSan Diego Int'l Airport
Occupants145
Passengers138
Crew7
Fatalities145
Survivors0
Ground casualties
Ground fatalities8
Ground injuries4

Pan Am Flight 759 was a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight from Miami to San Diego, with en route stops in New Orleans and Las Vegas. On July 9, 1982, the Boeing 727 flying this route crashed in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner after being forced down by a microburst shortly after takeoff. All 145 on board, as well as eight people on the ground, were killed.[1]

  1. ^ "Aircraft Accident Report: Pan American World Airways, Inc., Clipper 759, Boeing 727-235, N4737, New Orleans International Airport, Kenner, Louisiana, July 9, 1982" (PDF). National Transportation Safety Board. March 21, 1983. NTSB/AAR-83/02. Retrieved May 13, 2016. - Copy at Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University.

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