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Sixty-Four Seconds: Why Pan Am 759 Vanished into a Microburst
Sixty-Four Seconds: Why Pan Am 759 Vanished into a Microburst
A sudden, violent wind shredded a routine takeoff and in sixty-four seconds Pan Am Flight 759 fell from about 95-150 feet and slammed into a Kenner neighborhood, killing 153 people. How could three pilots with a combined 37,758 flight hours and a mechanically sound Boeing 727 be powerless against a stormy afternoon-what crucial weather information never reached the crew?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from pushback to impact, describe the aircraft and crew credentials, and follow the moments on the ground in Kenner…
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