Pan Am Flight 708

Coordinates: 52°30′N 13°02′E / 52.5°N 13.04°E / 52.5; 13.04
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Pan Am Flight 708
Pan American World Airways
RegistrationN317PA
Flight originFrankfurt Airport, Frankfurt, Germany
DestinationBerlin Tegel Airport, Berlin, Germany
Passengers0
Crew3
Fatalities3
Survivors0

Pan Am Flight 708 (PA 708) was a cargo flight that crashed on initial approach less than 10 mi (16 km) west-southwest of its destination airport,

Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) Boeing 727-21, registration N317PA,[1] name Clipper München, routing from Frankfurt Airport. All three crew members perished. The cause was undetermined because US investigators were not allowed to survey the impact site near Dallgow in what was then East Germany, and only half of the aircraft remains were returned by Soviet military authorities in East Germany to their US counterparts in former West Berlin
.

Flight details

Flight 708 usually landed at

Tempelhof Airport. But because of runway maintenance at Tempelhof, Pan Am shifted its flights to Tegel Airport
. At the time of the accident, weather was poor and it was snowing.

The Soviet authorities returned about 50% of the wreckage. Some major components were not returned, including the

cockpit voice recorders
, flight control systems, navigation and communication equipment.

At the time of the crash, the Soviet Union did not belong to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).[2] Nations belonging to ICAO allow reciprocal visits by official observers in order to improve aviation safety.

References

  1. ^ "FAA Registry (N317PA)". Federal Aviation Administration.
  2. ^ "Blocked crash site by Soviets berated". The Victoria Advocate. Associated Press. 1968-06-27. Retrieved 2022-09-25 – via Google News.

External links

52°30′N 13°02′E / 52.5°N 13.04°E / 52.5; 13.04


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