ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 334359
| Date: | Friday 8 November 1957 |
| Time: | 01:27 |
| Type: |  Boeing 377 Stratocruiser 10-29 |
| Owner/operator: | Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) |
| Registration: | N90944 |
| MSN: | 15960/40 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1949 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-4360-B6 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 44 / Occupants: 44 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 1500 km E of Honolulu, HI -
 Pacific Ocean
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | San Francisco International Airport, CA (SFO/KSFO) |
| Honolulu International Airport, HI (HNL/PHNL) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
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.
The remains of 19 victims were recovered.
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)
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