Th stepped leader contacts one of these aircraft streamers completing the ionized channel to the aircraft and raising he potential of the aircraft to the order of 100 megavolts. The right outboard flap showed heavy fire damage and the bottom skin was burned away. I was with security, Bainbridge, MD, USN, asleep, when we taken to the site, Elkton, Md, it was dark, cold and a wet cornfield. At 8:58p.m. EST, while in the holding pattern, the aircraft was hit by lightning, which ignited fuel vapors in the No. The first, in November 1962, happened when a Los Angeles-bound Varig Airlines 707 struck a mountain. I was 6 at the time and my great uncle Bob, my name sake was kidled along with his wife Florence. Everything outside lit up and as soon as I looked up I could see the plane on fire. Then we went on and made the landing as though nothing had happened, said one passenger, D. E. Wilson, of Peekskill, N.Y., in the article. A micro second is one millionth of a second. Before observing the aircraft, a glow or light was observed in near proximity to the location of the lightning discharge. Retired Elkton Police Chief Thomas McIntire met with a film documentary crew and Chris Knuth, the son of Pan Am 214s pilot, in 1994 to recall his memories of that night. The detached engine fell into a field on a farm southwest of Paris, where the flight had originated, with no injuries. There was also soot under the mud on the inboard flap gear box area. A large portion of the left wing separated in flight and the aircraft crashed in flames approximately ten nautical miles southwest of the New Castle, Delaware VOR. On December 8, 1963, Pan Am Flight 214, a Boeing 707-121 four-engine turbojet named Clipper Tradewind by Pan Am, took off from Isla Verde International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico at 4:10 p.m. EST, for a flight to Philadelphia with 73 passengers and 8 crew on board. However, the turbulence in the area where N709PA was operating was light to moderate and was not of the strength normally associated with a loss of control or structural failure. A [portion of] fuselage with about 8 or 10 window frames was about the only large recognizable piece I could see when I pulled up. websites will be deleted. Memorial Remembers Victims of Pan American Plane Crash in Elkton When the general alarm went out for all available ambulances, Steward W. Godwin, 56, responded on the North East Volunteer Fire Company unit. See attachment No. Following the crash, firefighters worked to extinguish the burning wreckage off Delancy Road. I am Edwin Montilla the son of Pan Am Flight Purser Mario Montilla who perished on Pan Am Flight 214 Dec 8, 1963. It was the end of the flight, but the beginning of a hellacious series of days. In response to the CAB's findings, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered lightning discharge wicks (or static dischargers) to be installed on all commercial jets flying inside US airspace. Flight 214 crashed two miles east of Elkton, Maryland, at 2059. At 8:24p.m. EST, flight 214 departed for Philadelphia with 73 passengers and 8 crew members on board. Continuing easterly the path, except for a concentration of five pieces of wreckage about 4,500 feet east-northeast of the crater, did not exceed 1,000 feet in width within 11,000 feet of the crater, at which point its track was about 255 degrees. Just when the county thought it couldnt get any worse, Dec. 8 arrived to deliver the largest aviation disaster in Marylands history, said Mike Dixon, of the Historical Society of Cecil County. [18]:32 CAB chairman Alan S. Boyd told reporters shortly after the accident, "It was so compacted there is no way to tell at this time whether we can derive any useful information from it. Cecil County had experienced its own loss when Steward Godwin, of the North East Fire Company, collapsed at the scene about 1:30 a.m. on Monday. The high frequency (HF) radio antenna had separated from the vertical tail section and exhibited numerous tiny pock marks which were dull in appearance.
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