Date:	Wednesday 3 September 1980
Time:	14:37
Type:	Boeing 727-21
Owner/operator:	Pan American World Airways (Pan Am)
Registration:	N327PA
MSN:	19036/278
Year of manufacture:	1966
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 73
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	San José-Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO) -   Costa Rica
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Miami International Airport, FL (MIA/KMIA)
Destination airport:	San José-Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO/MROC)
Investigating agency:	NTSB

Narrative:
The Boeing, named "Clipper Meteor", undershot runway 07 in heavy rain. The aircraft struck approach lights and the landing gear had sheared off when the plane came to rest in a field.

Jet-Airliner Unfälle seit 1952 / J. Richter, Chr. Wolf

photo (c) Ron Mak; San José-Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO); December 1980

photo (c) Werner Fischdick; München-Riem Airport (MUC); 12 July 1977

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