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Pan American World Airways, originally founded as Pan American Airways and more commonly known as Pan Am, was a major airline in the United States that was the largest international air carrier for mu
Pan Am Boeing 747-212B "Clipper Gem of the Ocean"
Flown cover autographed by pilot Cy Caldwell and carried from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, on the first contract airmail flight operated by Pan American Airways, October 19, 1927
"Birthplace of Pan American World Airways", Key West, Florida. It is now a restaurant.
Tourists with a Consolidated Commodore flying boat, used to fly routes in the Caribbean in the 1930s
Tenerife airport disaster
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On 27 March 1977, two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on a runway at Los Rodeos Airport on the Spanish island of Tenerife, killing 583 people and injuring 61 others in the deadliest accident in avi
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…Clipper Victor was substituted for the flight from New York John F. Kennedy to London Heathrow (Clipper Victor was destroyed seven years later in the Tenerife air disaster in a collision with a KLM 747-200). While on the tarmac at Heathrow, two students from Aston University boarded the aircraft undetected and distributed…
Wreckage of Flight 4805 at Los Rodeos Airport
PH-BUF, the KLM Boeing 747-206B involved in the collision
N736PA, the Pan Am Boeing 747-121 involved, pictured three weeks before the collision
KLM captain Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten featured in a 1977 advertisement for the airline