Status:	Final
Date:	08 NOV 1957
Time:	ca 01:27
Type:	Boeing 377 Stratocruiser 10-29
Operator:	Pan American World Airways
Registration:	N90944
C/n / msn:	15960
First flight:	1949
Engines:	4 Pratt & Whitney R-4360-B6
Crew:	Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8
Passengers:	Fatalities: 36 / Occupants: 36
Total:	Fatalities: 44 / Occupants: 44
Airplane damage:	Written off
Airplane fate:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:	Pacific Ocean (Pacific Ocean)
Phase:	En route (ENR)
Nature:	Domestic Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport:	San Francisco International Airport, CA (SFO/KSFO), United States of America
Destination airport:	Honolulu International Airport, HI (HNL/PHNL), United States of America
Flightnumber:	7

Narrative:
Boeing 377 Stratocruiser "Clipper Romance of the Skies" carried out a round-the-world flight originating in San Francisco, first stop being Honolulu. The aircraft departed San Francisco at 19:51 GMT for a 10-hour flight. Latest position report over the Pacific was at 01:04. Some days later, on 14 November, the US Navy carrier "Philippine Sea" located bodies and parts of wreckage some 940 miles east of Honolulu and 90 miles North of the intended track.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The Board has insufficient tangible evidence at this time to determine the cause of the accident. Further research and investigation is in process concerning the significance of evidence of carbon monoxide in body tissue of the aircraft occupants."

Sources:
» ICAO Accident Digest, Circular 59-AN/54 (35-41)