Tag: Pan Am Flight 759
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How an Invisible Microburst Brought Down Pan Am Flight 759 Just Seconds After Takeoff, Killing 153
On July 9, 1982, what should have been a routine domestic flight turned into one of the deadliest aviation disasters in Louisiana’s history. Pan American World Airways Flight 759, a Boeing 727-235 operating from Miami to Las Vegas with a scheduled stop in New Orleans, crashed moments after departing New Orleans International Airport (now Louis…
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