Boeing 747 N652PA

18 July 1971 · Sydney, Australia · No injuries

Summary

On 18 July 1971 at about 09:12 local time, a Boeing 747 registered N652PA, operated by Pan American World Airways, Inc., was involved in an incident during the landing phase of flight near Sydney, Australia. 284 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was not damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 18 July 1971 at 09:12
Classification: Incident
Location: Sydney, Australia
Nearest airport: Kingsford-Smith
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 747
Registration: N652PA
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: Pan American World Airways, Inc.
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Nadi → S
Aircraft damage: None
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 4-0055

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
284	0	0	0	284

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.

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INVESTIGATED AND REPORTED BY GOVT OF AUSTRALIA

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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 4-0055, 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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