Pan Am Captain Ogg

Pan american s sovereign of the skies was a boeing model 377 10 29 civil registration n90943 construction number 15959 originally operated by american overseas airlines as flagship holland and later flagship europe.

Pan am captain ogg. The cutter laid out a foam path for a best ditch heading of 315 degrees to aid the captain s vision of his actual height above the water. In the early morning hours of oct. They were immediately picked up by pontchartrain. The big boeing b 377 stratocruiser clipper sovereign of the skies had a runaway prop howling on its port outside engine and the opposite engine on the starboard wing was losing power.

Captain ogg and purser reynolds were the last to leave the airplane. Ogg age 43 was employed by pan american world airways on february 20 194l. For 27 years the pan am historical foundation has preserved promoted pan american airways and its pioneering contributions to 20th century aviation. Twenty minutes after touching down at 6 35 a m sovereign of the skies sank beneath the ocean s surface.

Pan am flight 6 had an engine failure and a runaway propeller in the middle of the night making it unable to. The ditching of pan am flight 6 on october 16 1956 pan american flight 6. At 0540 captain ogg notified pontchartrain that he was preparing to ditch. Captain ogg decided he could wait no longer.

Ogg had a to figure out a way to save the lives of his passengers as their plane was about to crash into the pacific. Pan am flight 6 registration n90943 and sometimes erroneously called flight 943 was an around the world airline flight that ditched in the pacific ocean on october 16 1956 after two of its four engines failed. Pan am historical foundation the new york times injuries were minor and all passengers and crew evacuated the airliner. Remembering that during another pan am stratocruiser ditching the tail had broken off captain ogg had the passengers in the back of the plane move forward and asked those seated by the engine to.

He held a valid airman certificate with airline transport rating and rating for the subject aircraft. The story of a rescue at sea. On the evening of october 15 1956 the flight left honolulu on a boeing 377. The last leg of this around the world flight was from honolulu to san francisco was being flown by a veteran pan am crew led by.

Pan am acquired the airliner during a merger. Flight 6 left philadelphia as a dc 6b and flew eastward to europe and asia on a planned multi stop trip. 17th 1956 just over halfway from honolulu to san francisco captain richard ogg knew his flight was not going to make its destination.