sanitation@lemmy.today to interestingasfuck · 5 days ago

Missing Pan Am plane found after 74 years

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Missing Pan Am plane found after 74 years

sanitation@lemmy.today to interestingasfuck · 5 days ago

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Wreckage of Pan Am plane that shaped aviation safety found 74 years on

The deaths of 52 people on the Clipper Endeavor led to the introduction of mandatory pre-flight safety briefings.

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Yes, actually!

Everyone onboard survived the impact - but passengers struggled to locate life vests and rafts as the plane rapidly sank. Of the 69 passengers and crew onboard, just 17 survived.
- ClipperDefiance@piefed.social
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  And two of the survivors are still alive today.

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