Boeing 707 N892PA

1 December 1969 · Sydney, Australia · No injuries

Summary

On 1 December 1969 at about 17:59 local time, a Boeing 707 registered N892PA, operated by Pan American World Airways, Inc., was involved in an accident during the takeoff phase of flight near Sydney, Australia. 136 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 1 December 1969 at 17:59
Classification: Accident
Location: Sydney, Australia
Nearest airport: Sydney
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 707
Registration: N892PA
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: Pan American World Airways, Inc.
Phase of flight: Takeoff
Route: S → Honolulu
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 1-0062

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
136	0	0	0	136

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

INVESD & RPRTD BY AUSTRALIAN GOVT.TKOF ABORTED AFT V1.ROLLING TKOF.WIND LESS THAN FCST.OVERLOADED.

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 1-0062, 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.

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