- Date
- January 13, 1968
- Place
- No.Pacific Ocean (Pacific Ocean) · NO.PACIFIC OCEAN, PO
- Injuries
- 2 serious, 18 minor, 47 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N715PABoeing 707
- Status
- Completed · report July 31, 1968
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 112124
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-0007 68/1/13 NO.PACIFIC OCEAN BOEING 707 CR- 0 0 9 SCHED INTERNATL PASSG SRV ATP,FLIGHT INSTR., AGE TIME - 0400 N715PA PX- 0 2 56 52, 18107 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-NONE OT- 0 0 0 4607 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. OPERATOR - PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS,INC. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION TURBULENCE IN FLIGHT: NORMAL CRUISE PROBABLE CAUSE(S) WEATHER - TURBULENCE, ASSOCIATED W/CLOUDS AND/OR THUNDERSTORMS PERSONNEL - MISCELLANEOUS-PERSONNEL: PASSENGER FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - SEAT BELT NOT FASTENED WEATHER BRIEFING - COMPANY DISPATCH WEATHER FORECAST - WEATHER SLIGHTLY WORSE THAN FORECAST SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED IFR TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN IFR REMARKS- PAX WERE PREVIOUSLY ADVISED TO KEEP SEAT BELTS LOOSELY FASTENED. RADAR DID NOT SHOW RETURN.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N715PA
- Reported as
- Boeing 707
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- turbo jet
- Damage
- No damage
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