- | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
Date: | October 16, 1956 |
Time: | 0615 |
Location: | Over the Pacific Ocean |
Operator: | Pan American World Airways |
Flight #: | 943 |
Route: | Honolulu - San Francisco |
AC Type: | Boeing 377 Stratocruiser |
Registration: | N90943 |
cn / ln: | 15959 |
Aboard: | 31 (passengers:24 crew:7) |
Fatalities: | 0 (passengers:0 crew:0) |
Ground: | 0 |
Summary: | The aircraft ditched into the Pacific Ocean while on a flight from San Francisco to Honolulu after losing the No. 1 and then the No. 4 engine. The aircraft circled around the U.S. Coast Guard cutter "Pontchartrain", at Ocean Station November until daybreak after which it made a successful ditching with no casualties. Probable Cause: An initial mechanical failure which precluded feathering the No.1 propeller and a subsequent mechanical failure which resulted in a complete loss of power from the No.4 engine, the effects of which necessitated a ditching. The aircraft was named "Clipper Sovereign of the Sky." |
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