Registration / Serial:N745PA
Aircraft Original Type:Douglas DC-7
Aircraft Generic Type:Douglas DC-7
Aircraft Version:Douglas DC-7C(F)
C/n (msn):44887 / 710
Operator Titles:Pan American World Airways - Pan Am
Aircraft Name:Clipper Fortune
City / Airport:Nuremberg (EDDN / NUE)Map
Country:Germany
Photo Date:18 February 1961
Photo from:Michael Roeser Collection
Photo ID:470501Submit Correction
View count: 559
Negative from FNG Archive. While operating a cargo flight from Frankfurt to Stuttgart in poor weather fog persisted at the destination in combination with partly unservicable approach lights and an unreliable glide slope. Letting down below minima the aircraft struck ground shortly before and north of the threshold tearing off the complete undercarriage and #3 engine. Surprisingly a go around could be initiated and the flight was diverted to Nuremberg were a belly landing was carried out on the foamed runway. Subsequently scrapped. Note escape rope from cockpit window and feathered #2 engine.
Registration / Serial:N745PA
Aircraft Version:Douglas DC-7C(F)
C/n (msn):44887 / 710
Operator Titles:Pan American World Airways - Pan Am
City / Airport:Nuremberg (EDDN / NUE)Map
Country:Germany
Photo Date:18 February 1961
Photo from:Michael Roeser Collection
Registration / Serial:N745PA
Aircraft Original Type:Douglas DC-7
Aircraft Generic Type:Douglas DC-7
Aircraft Version:Douglas DC-7C(F)
C/n (msn):44887 / 710
Operator Titles:Pan American World Airways - Pan Am
Aircraft Name:Clipper Fortune
City / Airport:Nuremberg (EDDN / NUE)Map
Country:Germany
Photo Date:18 February 1961
Photo from:Michael Roeser Collection
Photo ID:470501Submit Correction
View count: 559
Negative from FNG Archive. While operating a cargo flight from Frankfurt to Stuttgart in poor weather fog persisted at the destination in combination with partly unservicable approach lights and an unreliable glide slope. Letting down below minima the aircraft struck ground shortly before and north of the threshold tearing off the complete undercarriage and #3 engine. Surprisingly a go around could be initiated and the flight was diverted to Nuremberg were a belly landing was carried out on the foamed runway. Subsequently scrapped. Note escape rope from cockpit window and feathered #2 engine.
Registration / Serial:N745PA
Aircraft Version:Douglas DC-7C(F)
C/n (msn):44887 / 710
Operator Titles:Pan American World Airways - Pan Am
City / Airport:Nuremberg (EDDN / NUE)Map
Country:Germany
Photo Date:18 February 1961
Photo from:Michael Roeser Collection