Pan Am Flight 708
| Pan Am Flight 708 | |
|---|---|
 A Boeing 727-100 of Pan Am |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | unexplained |
| place | 3 kilometers southeast of Döberitz airfield |
| date | November 15, 1966 |
| Fatalities | 3 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Boeing 727-21 |
| operator | Pan American World Airways |
| Mark | N317PA |
| Surname | Clipper Munich |
| Departure airport | Frankfurt am Main airport |
| Destination airport | Berlin Tegel Airport |
| crew | 3 |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
On November 15, 1966, a Boeing 727-100 crashed on Pan-Am flight 708 from Frankfurt am Main to Berlin . The machine crashed shortly before landing for unknown reasons.
plane
The Boeing 727-21 with the air vehicle registration N317PA and named Clipper De Soto was the on January 20, 1966 Pan American World Airways delivered (Pan Am). It was later renamed Clipper Munich . The Clipper München was used for passenger operations during the day and as a cargo plane at night.
Flight history
The Pan Am normally flew the Berlin-Tempelhof airport to, but more due to maintenance work on the runways at the airport Tegel from. Flight PA 708 took off at 2:04 a.m., loaded with mail, from Frankfurt am Main Airport and rose to an altitude of 9,000 feet. At around 2:35 a.m., the aircraft sank to an altitude of 3,000 feet. At 0238, the pilots were instructed to turn on course 030 and descend to 2000 feet. Almost 10 km before the pre-entry sign, the pilots were supposed to go on course 060 and were given clearance for the instrument landing approach on runway 8 on the right. Shortly after confirmation from the pilots, the Boeing 727 collided with the 63-meter-high Alte Mühlenberg and exploded. All three crew members died.
Investigation and cause of the accident
Because flight PA 708 had crashed on the territory of the GDR , the investigation by the NTSB turned out to be difficult. The Soviet authorities turned only 50% of the aircraft debris over to the NTSB. The remaining aircraft debris , including the cockpit instruments and the two flight data recorders , remained in the GDR. According to the radar records, instead of maintaining an altitude of 2,000 feet, the Boeing 727 continued to descend until it hit the ground. However, due to the lack of debris, the NTSB was unable to determine whether a pilot error or a technical defect caused the crash. Since flight PA 708 crashed near Döberitz airfield , speculation arose that the aircraft had been shot down; However, investigators were able to refute this theory. The cause of the crash is still unclear to this day (2019).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Logbook Magazine Databases, PanAm Boeing 727 ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Accident report B-727-100 N317PA , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 3, 2019.
- ↑ a b Aircraft Accident Report, Pan American World Airways, Boeing 727 N317PA, November 15, 1966 (PDF)
- ↑ Tagesspiegel, Death Flight into the Cold War
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 2 " N , 13 ° 2 ′ 28" E