What the records say
- When
- 8 Dec 1963
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 39.61° N, 75.79° W
- Description
- aviation accident
- Deaths
- 81
- Cause
- lightning
Pan Am Flight 214
1963 aviation accident in Maryland
Pan Am Flight 214 was a scheduled flight of Pan American World Airways from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Baltimore, and then to Philadelphia in the United States. On December 8, 1963, while flying from Baltimore to Philadelphia, the Boeing 707 crashed near Elkton, Maryland. All 81 passengers and crew on the plane were killed.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A lightning strike causes the crash of Pan Am Flight 214 near Elkton, Maryland, United States, killing 81 people”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “В Элктоне (Мэриленд, США) из-за удара молнии разбился Boeing 707−121 компании Pan Am, погиб 81 человек”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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