Bankrupt - Pan Am
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- čas přidán 12. 04. 2018
- As commercial American aviation grew, Pan American Airways was a shining star. An airline that brought the country into the jet age and pioneered technology into the industry. A true beacon of family flying and ultra luxury... that all came to an end in 1991. But why?
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I like that video, but this one is my personal favorite.
Bright Sun Films the Boeing DC 4??? That’s like saying the airbus boeing 747. Makes no sense. DC is its own brand.
abcdef53015 dc became Boeing
I have an idea for another episode
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no joke i get a banrupt commercial thing
I remember when I was 5, the PanAm pilot gave me a little model plane and PanAm branded deck of cards and then showed me the cockpit. I also remember being very comfortable and happy about flying. Those were the days.
Ugh imagine how nice that would be now, instead United drags people off planes, American Airlines has too many delays, and delta... well who knows
rosie the riveter jet blu is my family’s go to
Man your lucky
Once, when flying with Avianca from MIA to MDE the pilot invited me to the cockpit ant let me see the landing from there, it was amazing
Did he ask you if you've ever seen a grown man naked? (Airplane! reference)
I'm so sorry for that Stewart and his fiancee it must have been destroying to see her name on that list
Elizabeth Frohn-hengst I was really hoping his story wasn't going to end that way, but I knew it would 😣
Elizabeth Frohn-hengst especially written in pencil, meaning she shouldn't have been on that flight
I take it that that was the manifest, considering everyone onboard died.
Why was it in pencil though?
@@davidliu2243 Because she was a last minute addition to the manifest.
A friend of mine was serving with the Army in Germany. Due to problems with out processing he missed his departing flight. The flight he missed was the flight that perished over Lockerbie.
he is lucky
Who fuckin cares
@@czr1238Quit looking for attention all the damn time. You should know well enough anyone with common sense would care if someone miraculously avoided death.
Pan am 103 would've haven 271 fatalities then
@@notobamabossagming4890 luck isn’t real, God is, do not believe in luck it is a sin.
When I see the scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey that shows Pan Am as the leader in Commercial Space Flight, I can't help but feel a sense of wonder and amazement. As if I've been transported into an alternate universe, a future that could have been.
Exactly!!!.I was ready to write my comment about "2.001 A Space Odyssey" & its link with the so iconic & globally admired Pan-Am,but I just found out about your comment!!!.I agree 100%!!!.
Kubrick never saw Elon Musk or Richard Branson coming
It also featured soviets Aeroflot, which exists to this day.
@@Volodimar Except the Soviet does not exist anymore, during the cold war many future history failed to recognize the possibility that world politics would change fundamentally from the East-West block, except sometimes China and/or Japan was added.
@@57thorns Where I stated, that Soviets exist? Aeroflot exists to this day, I wrote. Which makes your comment even more ironic - Pan Am is no more, but Aeroflot is.
7:05 this dude is legit filling up his lawn mower at the gas station
Tyler Kilarski - LOL! Truth
the ultimate dad
what a G
@@Krackerlack That is the best thing I've seen.......Classic
lol i saw that.
As soon as PAN-AM died a piece of America's Soul Died with it.
and the seats started shrinking, meals disappearing, on-flight behavior worsening, hidden costs and charges proliferating, flight attendants attitudes worsening.
@@matthewburris769 And most Americans, I'm sure, would have loved reading in magazines about how lovely Pan-Am's flights were, because they would never have been able to afford experiencing them in person. When it was a monopoly Pan-Am kept ticket prices sky high, and as soon as its monopoly was broken it couldn't compete at all without their fat, fat profit margins draining the life out of Americans with every ticket.
@Sad Trophy Wife no need to get political
@Sad Trophy Wife I know
Yeah the fascist part. Pan Am was a corporate behemoth only because it’s relationships and support of key figures in government. That’s the literal definition of fascism.
One more thing that hurt. Pan Am had only international routes when the fuel crisis hit. Airlines around the world, including domestic US, got subsidized fuel. Without domestic flights, Pan Am did not get this benefit, which served to magnify their losses compared to other carriers. By the time they gained links to domestic service, they were way behind the 8-ball and never really recovered. Then terrorists seemed to target Pan Am because it was so iconic and symbolized the West; the rest is history.
Pan Am use to many 747's. many routes could have go by with a Dc8 63
The irony of an airline who's name was short for "Pan-American" having no domestic flights!"
@@ACoolKidsProduction Lmao that's true
And then they acquired the wrong carrier...National Airlines (whose network was north south). As for why Pan Am...they were seen as the de facto US flag carrier.
Which is why in 2001 the terrorists went with American and United both of which are looked at as the flag carrier of America and the West in general. Statement heard loud and clear.
Long time ago, when people actually bathed before boarding a plane.
Lou Lopez this!!!!
still do.
imagine a flight where you are the only one and everyone else is indian :P
Flew on Peoples Express from Newark to Oakland around Dec 29 or 30. It was full of "dead heads", it was pretty rank
@@alexander1485.... @ Alex1485 what was just as bad?...1978, boarding a connecting flight in Honolulu bound from Samoa and Tonga to L.A.
Although their bankruptcy is tragic, perhaps there is some good in it. Pan Am was _the_ airline to fly, and if they were around today sadly I don't think that would be the case. They met their demise without compromising their customer experience, which in a way is a noble way to go. You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. Pan Am died a "hero" in the heart of the aviation community.
CommandMan7 I do agree that their quality wouldn't be as cutting edge because they would have to price match, but I think it would still be above average similar to the modern middle East carriers like Qatar or Eiarmates.
watershed44 are there any examples of airlines like these?
rosslosangeles how bad was it?
@@acegarcia3719 -- Emirates is still really a hub and spoke airline. They're basically Icelandair but on steroids based on their location (because they're about halfway between the central business area of Europe and India/Thailand, and can connect on to Australia).
United lived long enough to see themselves become the villain
My sincere condolences to that Gentleman’s Fiancé it’s very brave of him to tell how things were for him and the other people still suffering to this day
Pan American still exists today in the form of Pan American International Flight Academy. It is based in MIA and trains thousands of pilots. The MIA building is like a museum, displaying pictures and memorabilia of that great airline. Thanks for the video.....
Tom McIntyre, former 747 Program Manager for Pan Am International Flight Academy.
I remember the PAIFA well. We trained on the last operational 707 sim there when American closed their 707 sim. There was a small store at the top of the main staircase at the PAIFA where one could buy Pan Am memorabilia. Good memories.
I got hired by PAN AM as a flight attendant right before their demise. Being hired by PAN AM was a pretty big deal back then and I was super excited. No one thought this giant could ever be touched. Sad to see her gone from the skies. She was in trouble in 1988 and then flight 103 was bombed in the sky. We never recovered. The PAN AM logo was the 2nd most recognized symbol in world. Coke being the first.
The writing was on the wall it would would fail well before 103. Just kinda finished them off.
I’m a Pan Am employee!! (For Pan Am Railways. I even have an ID with the logo on it which is pretty cool) 😊
Thanks pretty cool!
Pan Am Rail at one point ran an airline which resurrected the Pan Am airline branding, flying out of Portsmouth, NH.
if im correct they bought the name and logo right
they are a holding company for railroads
@@LeviRamsey ;-;
Frank Abagnale was a Pan Am employee, too
Pilot episode
I now see why this was the PILOT episode.
Ba dump bump, pssh!
Pun intended haha 😆
Brody Cooper 😂😂
I see what you did there :|
lololololololol👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌
My grandfather lived in Lockabie, Scotland in 1988 and had gone out to an old friends house when the engine of a Pan-Am 747 destroyed his house. Fate played a part that night and he lived losing everything almost but unfortunately he passed away 8 months later. I’m still haunted by the photos of bodies hanging off of houses. 😞
I remember flying Pan Am when I was 9 years back in 89. We were flying from Miami to Houston and I'll never forget that the captain let me inside the cockpit, it was the most exciting day of my life . Never thought that they were a company on the brink of extinction.
You can tell when you can't get anyone on the phone. The stores look real raggedy and worn out.
And awful web sites. Macy's will be next.
Next up are Best Buy and CVS. You'll see.
So amazing! There are plenty of stories about kids being allowed in the cockpit years ago! First times I took a transatlantic flight in 95 and 99 such a thing was absolutely unthinkable to me!
As someone born in the mid 90s, and who flew for the first time about a year after 9/11, the idea of the captain letting children into the cockpit just blows my mind!!!!!
I don’t remember much about my first experience on an airplane, since I was a child, but I do remember the stress and confusion of getting on the plane. Since 9/11 had just occurred the year prior, things weren’t ironed out and the TSA was even worse than it is now.
It must have been great to have positive childhood memories of aviation…. The world really did change after September 11th.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823Best Buy Mexico is gone already.
I don't care what the building says on top. It's still *_The Pan Am Building_* to me!
👌🏻
Just like it will always be the Sears Tower and not the Willis Tower.
Yep, some buildings are just iconic with their original names. It will takes generations till the old names fade away.
Just like the Elizabeth Tower is still Big Ben
It will always be the Pan Am building to me.
One of the most beautiful company logo's in history imho.
I think logos is the correct spelling. Saves you time not putting the ' and its correct too
@@eetuthereindeer6671 *it's
@@jvasquez138 it doesn't matter to me. You can save like 0.3 seconds by not doing that and isn't that awesome? I dont usually put those marks in all words. I jist tried to help Nico as it would save time
Eetu The Hunter *just
@@wesleyquinnbine7341 lol thanks..
Jeez I was not even alive to experience most of these companies but I still get nostalgia from these vids for some reason
Pan Am is quite an example of "the bigger they are, the harder they fall"
And it truly is tragic this happened to a great company like Pan Am
I remember flying on Pan Am several times back in the day, great service, friendly, professional.
None of the domestic airlines today even comes close to the service provided by Pan Am, what a shame.
John Tam:Exactly!!!! Breaks my heart😞
Agree! I came to the comment section just to say that. I was quite young but I’ll always remember they had the best service.
I flew Pan Am about 4 times a year for a couple of years when I started my studies in the US. For us, in my country, Pan Am was 'thee airline' and being able to fly it that often was a treat. They even offered heavily discounted fares for international students. Was heart broken when they stopped flying as none of the other airlines offered their level of service.
The reason airlines today are horrible because they only really care about money, and anything extra (like food) is a waste. For example, in 2005, when Northwest Airlines was losing money, they cut back on their food service. This saved them about 38 million a year.
I don't know, spirit airlines is pretty great lol!
Helps me understand 'Catch if You Can Better'. Pan Am employees were treated with such respect.
Seriously, I was waiting for the mention the whole video. Kinda bummed he didn't mention it. I was going to check to see if it was the same company until I saw your comment.
Leonardo DiCaprio bankrupted Pam Am
Play-a-maker LOL 😂
@@mike365fly Lol
That entire film, which is about a conman, is a con in itself. Anyone who believes the story deserves to be lied to
My dad worked National Airlines until Pan Am purchased them. I logged my trips around the world on Pan Am until they close their doors. I was an airline brat and proud of it. To me it was the end of the golden age of air travel. Air travel used to be a pleasurable experience. Now it is nothing more than a hassle. Cramped seating and charges for everything.
My father was a pilot(1950-1978) my mother was a stewardess and my uncle was a flight engineer all for National Airlines. I miss them and National Airlines ( The Sunshine Airline.) Much better than that OTHER airline that bought them out.
I think it was the deregulation of the industry in the 1980s that really made it not fun anymore. Changed it to being about profit. 9/11 couldn't have helped.
facts
There is no: “Boeing DC-4”
DC = Douglas Aircraft Company
A part fell off of DC 4 once, then a Concorde ran over it then crashed a little after the take off.
@Terry Hawkins you're right, I knew it was one of those "DC" plans.
I thought it meant "Douglas Corporation"
Actually there is. MD 95 which was is also known as a Boeing 717.
Yes true, but the progression really goes "Douglas Comapny" (DC), then McDonald Douglas, and then Boeing acquired MD and presumably the patents and rights/designs to jets designed by the two former companies as part of the merger, and while it's obviously an obsolete design and airplane, Boeing likely owns the designs now.
When he mentioned his fiancée was on the flight pencilled in... I'm not crying, you are.
Oh....I was wondering why you looked so blurry! 😃
Cottonsocks434 you’re hot
My heart goes out to that man that lost his fiancé along with everyone still suffering from those accidents. A super cool video, though. I look forward to this series!
My first flight was on Pan Am in the 1970s to New York from Accra Ghana. Unbelievable experience. I haven't had such fun on any other Airline since.
*Professional style intro*
“What’s up guys, I’m back”
Pan Am 103 is still to this day a major deal in Scotland.
I am from Glasgow and I drive car transporter lorries for a living. The footage of the crater left by 103 on the road is the major motorway between Scotland and England, I drive this road on a weekly basis and pass the main crash scene.
There is a large lorry park (truck stop) in Lockerbie, one of the best in the UK actually, and there are people who work there who were directly affected by this incident.
The sheer mention of Pan Am 103 brings me close to tears.
I read this in a british accent
@@johncarlofernando1705 Which one? Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish, English (northern or southern) ;)
@@kkiwi54 english lol
@@kkiwi54 i dont know what a scottish accent sounds like. neither welsh. but i do know irish because of jacksepticeye
John Carlo Fernando isnt he free irish? Or is he the sad oppressed protestant north
Wow, Jake. Another professional quality documentary that kept my attention from start to finish. Thank you.
I can also say really good documentary and we can only wait and see what's next for this.
Tim Stevens 5
Rest in peace Miss Jocelyn, and everyone else who died in a Pan Am crash. From what I've been reading in the comments, it was a beautiful airline. I hope everything was quick. Hope families are still recovering from it all.
US airport: *fails to detect terrorist*
US government: it was pan am's fault
That flight took off from London, and airlines were responsible for their own security
UK airport, 103's last stop was Heathrow
it's not the job of the government to provide security for corporations
@Jay Talents how is it not free?
@@rickfeng4466 ……..I thought it's last 'stop' was Lockerbie
I’ve always been oddly fascinated with Pan Am. This video really covers it all and the interview with Steve Priske was a nice touch. Enjoyed his perspective.
same honestly
I work for Delta now, and some of those Pan Am employees mentored me when I first started. They are what makes Delta a great company today.
Lilah J Same here! My first flight was on Pan Am and I’ve always been smitten with the brand.
Lilah J WHY?? what's so interesting about Pan Am ? pls answer
Lilah J I know right? I've had this weird fascination for a long time, and it sucks that at least my generation can never experience Pan Am.
1st episode and I’m already in love!
ThisIs ReadyMade 100% agree I’m so happy he is making this a series because I like the retail and mall abandoned videos the most and I’m just so happy that he basically has a series sortive dedicated to that besides the other industries but I also like the other businesses too like airlines banks among others
I came into the airline industry in the early 90s. Many of my colleagues, including my boss, were former Pan Am employees who had taken the early buyout. We watched the death throes of the corporation from the sidelines and the feeble attempts to revive it, including the Delta merger. I was struck with how much everyone stuck together and felt such affection and nostalgia for their careers with Pan Am.
The lockerbie broke their neck. After that airline security was actually developed. Sad not to see Pan Am anymore :(
You knocked this one out of the park Jake! Excited to see where this show goes
Andrew Okwuosah ~ Could not agree more!!!
Juan Trippe = One Trip. Dude was a whole pun.
dont forget his cousins Juan Way and Juan Deag
I was literally about to make a comment about this 😂😂
This would be a good pun if it had any relevance to anything at all.
You left out the massive effects on the airline industry, and connected industries, of 1980's deregulation, of the smashing of the air traffic controllers union, both of which occurring during an even sharper downturn in the U.S. economy, and in many other countries as well, on the heels of the economically lousy 1970's.
MANY factors led to this bankruptcy, and others, as well as mergers, takeovers, liquidations. It was a period of severe volatility, and is the root of the shitty service as the standard in this industry.
Pan am did it to then self's brought to many 747;s never use the dc8 63 that would have save them a lot of money over paid for nat air lines to many things to list
Finally! Someone actually mentioned Pan Am Railways. Even though they didn’t really play a part in the airline itself, it is still something worth mentioning.
Oh look, Jake posted a new video. Time to sit back and learn something.
hippiefreak66 u mean close pornhub
Is anyone else here subscribed to Company Man? I can officially come here for historical business things and Company Man for what's happening right now. Good balance
Babydaisylover I am, he’s great.
I found this particular episode really interesting. Because when different companies go bankrupt, they tend to follow a similar theme as to why they went bankrupt. Pan Am also had some of the same typical reasons for going bankrupt as other companies and brands, but they also had a lot of bad luck too that was out of their control. Terrorism, bombings, evolution of travel, hysteria of the fear of travel etc. The company was pretty successful up until their downfall.
The notice this airline sent out to its employees the day it officially went out of business is one of the the saddest things I’ve ever read.
A notice filled with grief. It was the end of an era.
This is the sort of video that needs to be on trending. By the way Bright Sun Films, if you ever do an episode on Fort Ritchie in MD I can get footage for you. I live close to it.
Forsst Burban ~ Hello neighbor! Excellent idea~ I'd love to see that one🙂
Off to Google
now I so want to go up there
WE NEED MORE BANKRUPT
I'm getting intense Company Man flashbacks.
MrRyan2582 What needs to happen is to having both Jake and Mike work on each other's shows. They both have the same kind of know how, just think of what they can both do working together.
Company man is good
Omg yes
Lol....that the rrallity!....lol
In 1971 my 36 year old mother, my 11 year old brother, my 6 year old sister and my 13 year old self boarded a Pan Am 707 in San Francisco and flew one way to Hawaii, sight unseen. I and my mother are still here. My brother and sister are laid to rest here in Hawaii, and Pan Am is like a symbol of that travel and their subsequent demise.
I gotta ask. How was it flying in a 707 compared to say a 777 or a320 or a330. Because im just so obsessed with the 707 and i love it to bits. I never got to experience it and never saw it personally.
A great show 👍 having flown Pan Am Airlines during its glory years, I miss not only their great service in coach class, but their long-haul first class flights were a blast! This company knew how to have an elegant experience, yet very humble hence their service and the flying experience was something I still miss today. This was an airline that was something more extra special each and every time you flew. Tickets didn’t come in at cheap prices, but this airline proved to me a lifelong value. “There are times when the extra money is well worth it.”
This was a sad video and I wasn't expecting to feel emotion over a company going bankrupt. Excellent video and hats off those who were lucky enough to work for such a great company. I hope that the gentleman that you got to interview is doing well and so sorry for his loss.
MUMS-Universe it took wayyy to long of scrolling to find a comment sending him condolence
MUMS-Universe • Agreed. The man took two big lifetime hits - the loss of his fiancé and the loss of his medical and pension benefits - both sudden and devastating. When BrightSun interviewed him, he didn’t say anything about his recovery, but I do hope he was and continues to be successful.
I miss Pan Am. Steve hit it on the head when he said we were a family. We were and still are - Pan Am!
My first airplane flight was on a PamAm plane from Havana Cuba to Miami Florida in 1967 when I was six years old. I remember walking up the stairs to the plane on the runway like it was yesterday.
I remember in the mid-70s flying on a Pan Am 747 in first class. The second floor deck was a lounge sourrounded with couches.
Hearing about that man’s fiancée broke my heart. Why did she have to be penciled in as a 13th person?
It jerked some tears out of my eyes that I didn't expect when he said that too. He kept his composure better than I ever could.
Steve's got a book on Amazon called "Flying the Pool." He's also active on Facebook.
John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) of the Sex Pistols was supposed to be on that flight with his wife, but they missed it.
I think she was training
I recall hearing that off duty crew could "sign in" to a flight roster as an unpaid supernumerary. Which was really just an excuse to go on an excursion some times. This was common for a lot of airlines. You would step up if there was a need but that was passingly rare. Most time you just grabbed a nap and enjoyed the flight to where ever you were off to. That left me feeling awfully sad.
Love this new series and all of your other work. We can see how much work you put into your videos and appreciate it to no end. Excited to see where this series goes!!
Wow. I wasn’t expecting something this dramatic and engaging from a video about an airline bankruptcy. You have quite the quality standard. I was already subscribed but now I have to ring the notification bell.
Nobody:
Me: Thinking about the movie "catch me if you can"
I love Pan Am, I wish it was still around
The pilot episode is about an airline. Coincidence? I think not!
Three years late but loved this topic on Pan Am. Like the fact you took the time to research and get a former lead flight attendant involved too. Great Video!! :D
You left off that Pan Am was so iconic, it was featured at the Space Line that shuttled people from the Earth, to a space station then to The Moon in 2001: a Space Odyssey.
Very interesting...I hope we get to see more Bankrupt episodes!
Christian Elzey agreed
Weird question, but how did you post this 4 days ago if the video was posted today?
released early to patrion donators I would guess.
Christian Elzey agreed
And it's older competitors Child World (or KB Toys)
Pilot episode...
Pan Am...
I see what you did there...
Macinposh I don’t get it
Was he referring to the ABC TV show Pam Am too?
The pan am building is where tony starks/the avengers tower is in the MCU films.
Also the oscorp tower in andrew garfield spider man and the stateman tower in kingsman 2
The narrator says the Lockerbie Bombing was a major "accident". It was a terrorist attack.
Same thought occurred to me. Good short documentary, but otherwise, how do you make that mistake?!?
@Jerry V With a lot of US help, to remove certain CIA top brass that were on the flight.
IT WAS IRAN CONTRA COVER UP
@Jerry V ……..Mmmm, and you know this how?
Dan Gulbranson……..Yes, it WAS a terrorist attack. But it was orchestrated by the CIA, then covered up by the FBI and US State Dept
That was a very well done documentary.
It is so sad that Pan Am is gone.
Imagine if we still had this great airline, it would be incredible!!!!!
Mk3 Bosc retro
Will u use them ,if they are more expensive...but poor service?...think...this is reallity!....
That y the reason they got bankrupt!...😝😑🤐😝🤐😑😁
MaximusV MahaVeda you are such an immature child
@@kewintaylor7056 shut the fuck up with your stupid emojis
Pan Am is now a Railroad Company in New Hampshire
Top quality as always Jake, keep up the good work.
That was very interesting. My Uncle Herb Schiro was one of the Executives of Pan Am in its golden years and I remember the Excitement of going to the Airport to see him arrive in Sydney with my Aunt Sylvie and cousins.
Thank you for being so thorough and respectful in telling the story of an airline that many of us grew up on as passengers. Those early years of my life undoubtedly had a lot to do with why I eventually became a pilot (strictly for fun, not work). I can't fly anymore but I will always have those cherished memories of the airline that inspired me to see the clouds from the right side.
The DC-4 was made by Douglas not Boeing
@smith smithy Yes but the DC-4 was developed while it was still Douglas, Boeing was not involved. It was developed even before Douglas merged with McDonnell to become McDonnell-Douglas. The video implies Boeing developed the DC-4 - they didn't.
@hu1a121 Boeing didn't buy McDonnel Douglas until 1996. The DC-4 isn't called the Boeing DC-4, it's called the Douglas DC-4 because it was developed when Douglas was an independent company. They may own the rights to it now, but the video implies it was developed by Boeing when it was not. Pan-Am was bought out by Delta, but you wouldn't refer to them as Delta when talking about them in the past, would you? Why would you do the same when talking about a previous plane model built by Douglas, not Boeing?
Douglas is owned by Boeing.
You are correct. Calling it Boeing DC-4 is like calling a 1970 Plymouth Barracuda a Fiat-Chrysler Barracuda.
Conventional practice when writing or doing video about history is to use the brand/manufacturer names in use at the time. When writing or making video about current things, it is more common to mention the current ownership in the lineage. This particular video goes against common practice and thus increases confusion and misinformation for the uninformed that it is trying to educate.
Well done! As always!
A coworker of mine's father was a pilot for Pan Am. She still has a great love for the airline and her office is filled with Pan Am memorabilia.
I fondly remember flying Pan American from JFK to Shannon, Ireland. We flew them several times and it was always a pleasant experience. We flew home the day after the Lockerbie bombing from Shannon to JFK. We were out visiting my father's friends and neighbors. We hadn't heard about Lockerbie. At our last stop, a woman who may not have had running water in the house told us she heard all about it in the radio.
My friend’s dad was being discharged from Germany after serving in the army, but he missed his connecting flight out of London to New York, which would take him to Detroit and he’d catch a quick commuter flight to Chicago, where he lived.
That flight he missed was Pan Am 103.
Little thing I noticed...the DC-4 was not built by Boeing, but by the Douglas Aircraft Company. They later became McDonell Douglas in a merger between them and McDonell Aircraft. It wasn't until 1997 that McDonell Douglas merged with Boeing. Back in the DC-4's time, Douglas was in competition with Boeing.
I’m glad you mentioned the Tenerife disaster. I watched a documentary on that and it was how I found out about Pan am since then I’ve been fascinated with Pan am for some reason. I asked some family members about Pan am and all they could think about was flight 103. It’s such a shame that one thing remains the legacy of this amazing airline for most people who haven’t looked further into it.
My parents fleeing communism arrived to the shores of freedom on Pan Am. My father even got a job at the airport immediately and was promoted and then laid off as Pan Am went bankrupt. That was one of my early experiences of America.
Wow! Well done! I'm proud to say that when I lived in Berlin in late 80s, I got the opportunity to fly Pan Am from their hub there, mostly for weekend trips, like to Paris for instance. Professional service and wonderful staff! I was sorry to see them go since they were THE one to watch and fly for the longest time! Thanks for the memories...
The awkward shots of you nodding silently during the interview
Yeah but he's cute AF
I remember to this very day where I was working ? At Heathrow for a sub- contractor working with Pan Am. On the 21 December 1988 I had been driving the Pan Am buggy around Terminal 3 departures collecting Passengers. It was a beautiful but very cold day. With my shift finished approximately 3.30pm I left the Terminal as I always did via the check desks .A throng of people were ready to either check in or had checked for their flight. That evening I went to a midweek church event . I had arrived home to my West London home near Hounslow East tube station. I had put on the news .A news flash appeared across the screen read by the BBC"s Nicholas Whitchell. That news bulletin would haunt me forever .I had just heard that Pan Am flight 103 from London to JFK had crashed in the Scottish Borders it was then that I knew those people I had seen just hours before were killed in the Lockerbie Disaster. It was an understatement that I had just collapsed to the ground and cried all night. The Pan Am jumbo was an aircraft I had fallen in love with, her name will always be in my heart and memory forever Clipper Maid of the Seas. She was a familiar site at Terminal 3, we would see her at least once a week & on so many occasions I would have either taken Passengers off her or boarded Passengers on her. It still breaks my heart to this day to see the image of her laying dead on her side in the fields near Tundergarth Church in Lockerbie. Her cockpit picture had become the sad iconic symbol of the Lockerbie Disaster. My thoughts at this time of year are always on Lockerbie. At the time of the tragedy I always look up at the sky & pray . That night will never leave me...ever. . Stewart Brown
why would it need to go to Lockerbie to fly over the atlantic?
@@bowlerstuff9589 I seem to recall that it was diverted to less congested route.
Such a terrible disaster. I was shocked and outraged at the news myself, but can hardly imagine how it must have been for you, with such close ties to this aircraft and her passengers. May God comfort you.
Jo Bowler Flight paths tend to curve upward. That’s just where it was flying over when it was blown up.
Which terrorist organisation put the bomb on the plane?
I remember seeing one of their 747 in the São Paulo airport in the late 80’s. Absolutely iconic indeed.
Wasn't a space ship featured in 2001: A Space Odyssey a Pan Am?
Daniel McLaughlin Yep, I was surprised he didn’t include that along with the concept drawings for the Boeing SST.
Yes, I am pretty sure 2 airlines were featured there, Pan Am and Aeroflot
Lady's and Gentleman, Pan Am was the gold standard of the United States of America 🇺🇸. I was employed with the company from 1960-1979. There was no airlines that could match us. Period! In my own opinion, management upper was mainly to be held accountable. A very sad ending to the pride of the American legion. Thank you. And thank the young man for his story of such a fantastic company.
I used some of your glue one time.
@@jejamesjr5751 ok, then name the gold standard of American companies. I'll wait...
Mr. Bronicki, I meant no slight whatsoever toward Pan Am. My comment was meant for another post somewhere, obviously. I can't explain how it ended up here. Forgive me, please. I hated to see Pan Am disappear too, as a huge part of aviation history, particularly with regard to international air travel.
Do agree with you. I've flown Pan Am twice and to this date I never ever saw again that level of service and dedication. Not even Lufthansa and Emirates match Pan Am levels. And I fly a lot.
I flew Pan Am from Tokyo to NYC, via India and London, in 1977.
Pan Am Railways is also the largest regional railway in the US. In fact, Pan Am was bought out by the current holder of the Pan Am name, Guilford Transportation Industries, and they attempted restarting the company as “Boston-Maine Airways”, but as you can imagine, that failed and as of (i think 2009) all aircraft are in storage, so Guilford decided to name their rail system in New England. FedEx Express has 7 former Pan Am A310s (all in storage).
They have ceased to exist since (CSX acquired the railroad company, but the Pan Am trademark was not part of the purchase, instead sold to Eclipse Holdings).
4:45 the first ever 747 being tested the start of the queen of the skies
My mother worked for Pan Am. Was a young women from Costa Rica of all places. Every time she talks of the company she has nothing but fond memories.
Pan Am also was victim to a very limited domestic network. They had a bunch of A318's on order but it was too little too late.
Yes, the only routes they flew domestically was Alaska and Hawaii I believe
That was due to regulation. Pan Am was a registered international carrier, which in the pre-deregulation days severely limited options as the hub-and-spoke networks developed. They bought National just prior to deregulation, which was one of the nails in the coffin, as it were. Getting used to competing in the domestic market, along with the competition exploding post-deregulation was not managed well. Pan Am had options on A320s, but folded before any of that came to fruition (the A318 didn't fly until 2002).
My grandfather could’ve been on flight 103 but he was thankfully sick and couldn’t travel
Yah-Boi Animations Sometimes we get lucky in life
John Iii Seth McFarlane could’ve been on a flight that hit the world trade centre
nightshaded I also think a lot of this shit is fake, but what if it IS real for once. Then you will hurt someone very badly.
i was on that plane. the landing was not so smoothly. i'm the only surviver. now i'm 19 years old.
simon That does not even make sense ;-;
If you look closely in Home Alone 2 in one scene you can see the Pan Am building
Plus, a pretty good scene on the top of the World Trade Center & a future President!
@@rongendron8705 "Down the wall and to the left." was a running joke for awhile. Ah, memories.
I never took Pan Am but the Griswold’s took it on their European Vacation and they seemed to enjoy the flights. Good enough for me!
Amazing. One of the best channels on YT
Elected News ~ Yes!
Thank you for the cool film. I used to fly Pan Am as a teenager all the time from the USA to Asia and back in the 1970s and 80s. PA 001 one way, PA 002 the other. My dad flew Pan Am a lot for business, in fact he had flown PA 103 many times. And my girlfriend's dad in 1978 worked for Pan Am in Hawaii. Nice film, but personally sad for me. Pan Am was simply the best ever.
When I was twelve, my parents and I flew PA 001 in 1961 from NYC to Tehran, Iran with two day layovers In London, Paris, Rome, Beirut and finally finishing up at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport. Over the next eight years we flew PAA exclusively traveling both directions on PAA 001 and PAA 002. They had the best in-flight meal service of any other airline I've flown on since.
Actually, the very best meal service ever was on a National Airlines Super Connie my mother and I took from Miami to San Francisco in 1954. Real food served on real china cloth napkins and real silverware! :)
I actually used a lot of information in this video to write my college paper on airline deregulation, and even dedicated one of my paragraphs to this video.
Well done. One thing missing however, is the effect of deregulation on the industry. Pan Am basically had a monopoly on several markets. The competition that resulted lowered fares making travel more affordable, but cut into revenues tremendously while costs of its aging fleet continued to increase for the reasons cited in the video. Upstarts like Laker Airways out of the UK also went head to head with Pan AM in the London US East Coast market. Search for Commanding Heights Episode 1 here on You Tube for more info on this.
“Welcome to the pilot episode of Bankrupt”
*I see what you did there*
Props to the creator/narrator of the above: well-researched, well thought out and nicely done mini-doc on the rise and fall of perhaps America's most iconic airline of the 20th Century.
Seeing all those crew members dressed in their old uniforms was cute. I love the joy there.
FYI... Panam still exist in miami, as a flight instructor academy for pilots, dispatchers, air traffic controller etc...
The saddest day in my life was the bankruptcy of Pan Am. Although I worked for TWA I had a great love for PA. They were extremely kind towards me on several occasions. I will never forget the professionalism of their staff.
jslasher1 your gonna like us TWA 😊
jslasher1 you have a chill live if thats the saddest day
So why wasn't the TWA bankruptcy the saddest day of your live lmao. Guess you just worked at American after that?
Well Jake as always you have done it again. you are so professional. This was on of your best. I cant wait to see whats next in this series.
Flying to Brazil in the 70's, I always had five seats to myself in the middle and could lay flat across all of them. I also was able to drink at 16 in the car upstairs since well, no one cared lol.