What the records say
- When
- 16 Oct 1956
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 30.02° N, 140.15° W
- Description
- aviation accident
- Deaths
- 0
Pan Am Flight 6
1956 aviation accident in the Pacific Ocean
Pan Am Flight 6 was a round-the-world airline flight that ditched in the Pacific Ocean on October 16, 1956, after two of its four engines failed. Flight 6 left Philadelphia on October 12 as a DC-6B and flew eastward to Europe and Asia on a multi-stop trip. On the evening of October 15 the flight left Honolulu on a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser Clipper named Sovereign Of The Skies.
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