Aircraft Photo of N745PA | Douglas DC-7C(F) | Pan American World Airways - Pan Am | AirHistory.net #470501
Aircraft
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
Location
City / Airport:NurembergMap
Country:Germany
Airport Codes:ICAO: EDDN   IATA: NUE   Local: -   Other: -
 
Photo Date:18 February 1961
Photo from:Michael Roeser Collection
Photo ID: 470501
Photo Comment

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.

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