Pan Am Flight 214



The aircraft involved in the crash, N709PA, before being delivered to Pan Am

Accident
Date: December 8, 1963
Site: Elkton, Maryland, United States
Coordinates: 39°36′47.8″N 75°47′29.7″W

Fatalities: 81
Survivors: 0

Pan Am Flight 214 was a scheduled flight of Pan American World Airways from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Baltimore, Maryland, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On December 8, 1963, the Boeing 707 serving the flight crashed near Elkton, Maryland, while flying from Baltimore to Philadelphia, after being hit by lightning. All 81 occupants of the plane were killed. It was the first fatal accident on a Pan Am jet aircraft since the company had taken its first delivery of the type five years earlier.

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