Boeing 707 121B N708PA

17 September 1965 · Montserrat Bwi, Other-Foreign Countries · Fatal

Summary

On 17 September 1965 at about 07:24 local time, a Boeing 707 121B registered N708PA, operated by Pan American World Airways, Inc., was involved in an accident during in flight near Montserrat Bwi, Other-Foreign Countries. 30 people were on board and 30 died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 17 September 1965 at 07:24
Classification: Accident
Location: Montserrat Bwi, Other-Foreign Countries
Nearest airport: Coolidge Antigua
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 707 121B
Registration: N708PA
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: Pan American World Airways, Inc.
Phase of flight: In Flight
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 1-0082

People

30 people died.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
30	30	0	0	0

Probable cause

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

INVESTIGATED AND REPORTED BY UNITED KINGDON. PILOT-DESCNDED BELOW SAFE ALT DUE NAVIGATNL ERROR.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

No coordinates. The source record does not contain a latitude and longitude, so this accident cannot be shown on the map. Everything else about it is on this page.

Source

NTSB record 1-0082, from the public aviation accident database.

Records from before 1982 are not in the NTSB's online investigation search. The full dataset can be downloaded from data.ntsb.gov/avdata.

Also in

Other-Foreign Countries 247 Pan American World Airways, Inc. 113 1965 5,428

Other Boeing 707 121 accidents

Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
14 Jun 1964	Boeing 707 121 N778PA	San Juan Pr, Puerto Rico, United States no coordinates	Pan American World Airways, Inc.	Serious injuries	-

Other accidents in this area

Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
16 Jun 1965	Bell 47G N940B	Nassau Bahamas, Other-Foreign Countries no coordinates	Bahamas Chart	No injuries	-
2 Feb 1965	Beechcraft AT-11 N52933	Freeport Bahamas, Other-Foreign Countries no coordinates	-	Fatal	1
8 Feb 1965	Beechcraft A-35 N1875A	Caicos Is Bahamas, Other-Foreign Countries no coordinates	-	No injuries	-
3 Mar 1965	Cessna 195 N4385N	Isabella Dr, Other-Foreign Countries no coordinates	-	Minor injuries	-
27 Mar 1965	Cessna 172 N2056Y	Andros Is Bahamas, Other-Foreign Countries no coordinates	Flight Line	No injuries	-
10 Apr 1965	Cessna 172 N8779B	Andros Is Bahamas, Other-Foreign Countries no coordinates	-	No injuries	-

All 247 records in Other-Foreign Countries