Airplane Crash - Pago Pago, American Samoa 01/30/1974
Details of airplane crash/ shootdown - Pago Pago, American Samoa
| Date | 01/30/1974 |
| Time | 23:41 |
| Location | Pago Pago, American Samoa |
| Operator | Pan American World Airways |
| Flight # | 806 |
| Route | Auckland - Pago Pago |
| Type | Boeing B-707-321B |
| Registration | N454PA |
| Cn/In | 19376/661 |
| Aboard | 101 |
| Fatalities | 96 |
| Ground | 0 |
| Summary | The aircraft crashed and burned while making ILS approach to Pango Pango International Airport. There was a failure of the crew to correct an excessive rate of descent causing the aircraft to fly into trees short of the runway. Windshear, sensory illusory, inadequate monitoring of flight instruments, and the failure of the crew to call out descent rate. Most aboard the aircraft were not injured by the crash but succumbed to fire and paniafterwards. The aircraft was named Clipper Raidant. |
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