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Wilmington Sash & Door Fire | Palm Sunday, April 2, 1950 | Photos |
Pearl Harbor | December 7, 1941 | Photos |
PanAm Flight #214 Elkton Crash | On December 8, 1963, Pan American 214, operating as Clipper
Tradewind departed Isla Verde International Airport in San Juan,
Puerto Rico at 4:10pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) for a flight to
Baltimore's Friendship Airport (now Baltimore-Washington
International Thurgood Marshall Airport, or BWI), where 69 passengers
disembarked. At 8:24 p.m. EST, flight 214 departed for Philadelphia with 73 passengers and 8 crew members on board. Because of high winds in the area, the crew chose to wait in a holding pattern with five other airplanes rather than attempt to land in Philadelphia. At 8:58 p.m. EST, while in the holding pattern, the aircraft was hit by lightning, which ignited fuel vapors in the No. 1 (left) reserve tank, causing an explosion that blew apart the outer portion of the jetliner's port wing. The crew of flight 214 managed to transmit a final message "Mayday, mayday, mayday ... Clipper 214 out of control ... here we go", before it crashed near Elkton, Maryland. All 81 people on board were killed. • Audio #1 - Joe Mosbrook, News Reporter with Radio Station WDEL giving an account of the plane crash: • Audio #2 - Cecil County Control Center, Rosemary Culley dispatches Cecil and New Castle Counties Fire Companies • News Video - Universal-International Newsreel • Video 3 - Chief McIntire Remembers Elkton Plane. It was recorded in the autumn of 2013 • Video 4 - Additional information |
Audio 1 Audio 2 Photos News Video Video 3 Video 4 |
Mid-Air Explosion Over Willow Run Area | April 28, 1955 | Photos |
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