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| Name | Lightning Doesn't Need To Strike Twice | Crash Of Pan Am Flight 214 |
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| Video Discription | Flight Brothers FT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClhGp5kpoMvFMMg3KGPENZA Pan Am 707 Photo: https://www.flickr.com/people/23344035@N03 (clipperarctic) This is the story of Pan Am flight 214, On the 8th of december 1963 a Pan am 707 was on its way from san juan with a stopover at Friendship airport, maryland and then it would make its way to philadelphia international airport, onboard were 73 passengers and 8 crew members. Before the plane even left the ground from san juan the captain was briefed about the weather that he could expect along his flight path. He was told to expect thunderstorms as he passed by Baltimore and philadelphia. Flight 214 departed san juan at 4:10 pm and reached baltimore at 7:35 pm. The plane was refueled and it was ready for its next leg to philadelphia. Flight 214 departed baltimore at 8:24 pm with the crew keeping a close eye on the weather. As an am flight 214 got closer to its destination the plane was handed over to new castle approach control. Who was not equipped with radar. Flight 214 was asked to maintain 5000 feet and they were cleared to the new castle VOR. By 8:42 Pm the plane was at the new castle VOR. But the controller did not have good news. A cloud bank was present between 700 and 800 feet. Visibility was less than ideal and it was raining. Making matters worse for the crew it was windy, winds ranged from 20 knots to 30 knots. Philadelphia was under the grip of the thunderstorm that the crew had been warned about. The controller lets the crew know that they had about 5 planes in a holding pattern, they had elected to hold till the weather eased up a bit, the controller leaves the final decision upto the crew, they could push through the bad weather and make an approach right now, or they could wait around a bit until the weather improved. The crew elected to hold west of the VOR, they wanted the weather to calm down a bit, they expected to be out of the holding pattern by 9:10 pm. 8:50 pm the crew let the controller know that they were ready to make the approach to Philadelphia, the controller asks them to stay in the hold for a bit longer. The crew replied with “Roger, no hurry just wanted to let you know that we’ll accept a clearance”. The controller went back to his duties, 8 minutes later a panicked voice came over the frequency “ Mayday Mayday Mayday, clipper 214 out of control, here we go”, A quick burst and then silence. The alarmed controller then got another transmission, not from clipper 214 but from the first officer of national airlines flight 16, another plane that was in the holding pattern. National airlines flight 16 was 1000 feet above flight 214 and they had a front row seat to what was unravelling infront of them. The First officer of national airlines flight 16 said “Clipper 214 is going down in flames”, the first officer watched as the plane plunged into the dark night. 99 people on the ground back up the first officer of the national airlines pilot they too had seen a flaming plane in the skies of Elkton At 8:59 pm the plane impacted the ground east of elkton maryland. Unfortunately no one survived. The once mighty 707 was now reduced to metal fragments in a 4 mile long patch of land in Elkton. They sifted through the wreckage hoping that it would tell them something about the plane. They found the CVR but it had been compacted by the 200G force of impact double of what it was designed for. They found the trailing edge of the left horizontal stabilizer. Where they noticed something strange. The horizontal stabilizer was damaged, but not in a way that the crash would have damaged it, the paint on the stabilizer was blistered, and it was smeared |
| Category | Science & Technology |
| Tags | air crash investigation | the crash that shocked everyone | pan am | pan am flight 214 | elkton | maryland | delaware | plane crash | why planes crash | pan american airlines | pan am airways | philadelphia | aviation history | aviation documentary |
