Boeing 747 N732PA

18 July 1974 · Sydney, Australia · No injuries

Summary

On 18 July 1974 at about 18:08 local time, a Boeing 747 registered N732PA, operated by Pan American World Airways, Inc., was involved in an incident during the landing phase of flight near Sydney, Australia. 93 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was slightly damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 18 July 1974 at 18:08
Classification: Incident
Location: Sydney, Australia
Nearest airport: Kingsford Smith
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 747
Registration: N732PA
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: Pan American World Airways, Inc.
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Fiji Island → S
Aircraft damage: Minor
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 4-0015

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
93	0	0	0	93

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

INCIDENT INVESTIGATION UNDER JURISDICTION OF AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT.

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 4-0015, 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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