Date:	Tuesday 7 April 1964
Time:	23:02
Type:	Boeing 707-139
Owner/operator:	Pan American World Airways (Pan Am)
Registration:	N779PA
MSN:	17904/119
Year of manufacture:	1960
Total airframe hrs:	11094 hours
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney JT3C-6
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 145
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	New York-John F. Kennedy International Airport, NY (JFK) -   United States of America
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	San Juan-Isla Verde International Airport (SJU/TJSJ)
Destination airport:	New York-John F. Kennedy International Airport, NY (JFK/KJFK)
Investigating agency:	CAB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
The Boeing 707 touched down on the far end of runway 04R and ran off the end of the runway, ending up in Thurston Basin.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The captain's deviation from the glide slope during an ILS approach resulting in a touchdown on the runway at a point and speed which precluded stopping the aircraft on the remaining runway."

ICAO Aircraft Accident Digest No.16, Circular 82-AN/69 (142-150)

photo (c) Jon Proctor; Los Angeles International Airport, CA (LAX/KLAX); 28 June 1960

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