What the records say
- When
- 11 Apr 1952
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 18.54° N, 66.25° W
- Description
- Aircraft water landing in 1952
- Deaths
- 52
Pan Am Flight 526A
1952 aviation accident
Pan Am Flight 526A, a Douglas DC-4, took off from San Juan–Isla Grande Airport, Puerto Rico, at 12:11 PM AST on April 11, 1952, on a flight to Idlewild International Airport, New York City, with 64 passengers and 5 crew members on board. Due to inadequate maintenance, engine number 3 failed after takeoff, followed shortly by a loss of power from engine number 4.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Катастрофа DC-4 под Сан-Хуаном”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page