Pan Am Flight 6
Pan Am Flight 6 ditching in the Pacific Ocean, photographed from US Coast Guard Cutter Pontchartrain. Note that engine #4 appears to be feathered. | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | October 16, 1956 |
| Summary | Engine failure, ditching at sea |
| Site | Pacific Ocean Northeast of Hawaii 30°02′N 140°09′W / 30.033°N 140.150°W |
| Aircraft | |
| N90943, the aircraft involved in the accident, in 1947 | |
| Aircraft type | Boeing 377 Stratocruiser 10-29 |
| Aircraft name | Clipper Sovereign Of The Skies |
| Operator | Pan American World Airways |
| Call sign | CLIPPER 6 |
| Registration | N90943 |
| Flight origin | Marine Air Terminal, New York City |
| Stopover | London Heathrow Airport, London |
| 1st stopover | Frankfurt Airport, Frankfurt |
| 2nd stopover | Beirut International Airport, Beirut |
| 3rd stopover | Drigh Road Airstrip, Karachi |
| 4th stopover | Yangon International Airport, Rangoon |
| 5th stopover | Don Mueang International Airport, Bangkok |
| 6th stopover | Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong; Tokyo International Airport, Tokyo |
| Last stopover | Honolulu International Airport, Honolulu |
| Destination | San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco |
| Passengers | 24 |
| Crew | 7 |
| Fatalities | 0 |
| Survivors | 31 (all) |
Pan Am Flight 6 (registration N90943, and sometimes erroneously called Flight 943) 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 (Pan Am fleet number 943, registered N90943). The accident was the basis for the 1958 film Crash Landing.