An Invisible Threat | Pan Am Flight 759
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This is the story of Pan Am Flight 759. On the 9th of july 1982 it was a rainy overcast day and a pan am 727, flight 759 was flying from miami to las vegas with a stop over in new orleans. At 3:38 pm central day light time the 727 left the gate with 145 people on board. As the pilots taxied away they listened to the ATIS message. scattered clouds at 2500 feet, 6 miles of visibility and calm winds coming in from 240 degrees, the overcast sky looked like it might give them some trouble, but so far, it was relatively calm. As the plane started its taxi the pilots calculated important metrics for the take off. The engines were to be set to a power setting of around 1.90 and the V1 and the V2 speeds were at 131 and 158 knots respectively.
The crew requested runway 10 and the tower cleared them to use the same, clipper 759 was about to start her second leg for the day towards las vegas. At 3:59 pm the copilot asks for a wind check, ground control lets them know that they have an 8 knot wind coming in from 040 degrees. Nothing too major,nothing that the 727 couldnt handle.
As the plane taxied and the pilots toiled away in the cockpit, the radio buzzed in the background, some planes had experienced some issues with wind shear in the north eastern quadrant of the airport. At 4:03 pm the copilot requested another wind check.ground control lets them know that Wind was at 070 at 17 knots gusting to 23. With windshear alerts going off in all quadrants of the airport it was now more windy than when they started out. It appeared that they were in the middle of a weather system, the captain advises the copilot to quote “Let the speed build up on takeoff” the captain even suggested that they turned of the air conditioning packs so that they would have more thrust from the engines on takeoff.
At 4:06 om and 22 seconds clipper 759 was ready to go.Two seconds later towered cleared them for takeoff. As the pilots completed their pre takeoff checklists the radio in the cockpit crackled to life with a transmission from a landing eastern airlines airplane, they had reported a ten knot wind shear on the final approach onto runway 10. At 4:07 pm the plane was rolling down the runway picking up speed. The captain called out rotate and V2 as the plane continued its takeoff. The plane lifted off 7000 feet down the runway and the plane climbed wings level to about 150 feet and then to the shock of onlookers flight 759 began to descend.
The initial climb was normal, flight 759 looked like any other 727 on takeoff. But as the plane began to descend the nose started to pitch up. With the nose up at about 7 to 10 degrees it was clear that flight 759 was clawing for altitude. And then flight 759 runs out of altitude and crashes into a residential neighbourhood killing 154 people on board and 8 people on the ground.
The plane struck the ground 2300 feet from the end of the runway. The plane started striking the tops of the trees with the left wing about 2-3 degrees down. The plane rolled to the left and then continued on finally coming to rest almost 4000 feet from the runway. The wreckage told them a lot, the gear was retracted and the flaps were set to 15. The investigators scoured the now shattered cockpit and found that the EPR gauges were at 1.90 for engines 1 and three and engine number 2 on the tail was at 2.90, the plane had plenty of thrust when it crashed.
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I was on my way home in Metairie, a New Orleans suburb when the first reports of this plane crash were coming on the radio. I had a clear view of the sky over the airport from the top of an overpass. The thunder storm that PanAm 759 took off into was one of darkest nastiest looking storms that I have ever seen. This was pre Doppler radar, but a simple eye test should have tipped somebody off to the danger and the likelihood that there would be down drafts that could threaten any aircraft taking off into that monster.
Thanks, good explanation of what happened. I knew 2 children who unfortunately died on the Delta flight in Dallas, and briefly met a woman who survived that flight, her seat was in the tail section.
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I was 10 and my dad was a emergency responder and I was with him at his regular job bc of summer and he got called to go help and he brought me to close by and while waiting for my grandmother to pick me up I got scared and walked right into the crash site. I was traumatized & have been afraid to fly ever since. My mother never got over that my dad even brought me even near it.
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I was once at Dulles on a plane about to take off. While we were taxiing, the captain told us there would be an unexpected delay. After about 10 minutes of sitting on the taxiway, the sky went black and the most intense storm passed over the airport. I think we sat there for about 40 minutes until it had passed and everything was normal again, when we took off. To me it was simply common sense, but I guess that doesn't happen on every occasion.
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Another fascinating story, well-researched and very well told. Thanks.
I have been looking for information on this crash for quite some time. Thank you. I am so glad I found you. Your information is so concise. I have subscribed and I’m now liking each video as I watch it. I don’t fly, but I do have an interest in aviation. Please keep the great videos coming!
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I liked this video much better than the actuaal videos you have been using as it gave me a reminder of what this type of plane looked like. Thanks
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