Pan Am Flight 759

Pan Am Flight 759 was a domestic flight from Miami to San Diego with stopovers at New Orleans and Las Vegas, the plane was operated by a Boeing 727 with 145 people on-board. On July 9, 1982 the plane as forced down by a microburst shortly after takeoff, and crashed into a suburb of Kenner. All 145 people on-board the plane along with eight more on the ground died in the crash.

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Category:1982 in the United States
Category:20th century in New Orleans
Category:Airliner accidents and incidents involving controlled flight into terrain
Category:Aviation accidents and incidents in the United States
Category:Jefferson Parish, Louisiana