Jet crash report

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33452, 6 February 1974, Page 2

Jet crash report

t.V.Z. Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON. February 5. The United States National Transportation Safety Board says it has found no et idence of mechanical malfunction or failure in the Pan American World Airways jet airliner that crashed al Pago Pago, in American Samoa, last Thursday.

The Boeing 707, which crashed during a violent thunderstorm, was on its way from New Zealand to Hawaii The crash killed 96 of the 101 people on board. Ninetyone died in the crash and in the fire afterwards, and five others died later of injuries. The safety board said it had recovered both the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder from the wreckage. Both were in good condition. The board also says there is no evidence that the crew reported that fire had broken nut while the jet was trying to land. The board said it would not release details of its findings on the tapes until it held public hearings. But the board said its preliminarv investigations showed there was nothing abnormal about the flight before the aircraft

i struck the ground threet quarters of a mile short of > the runway. > The aircraft was using regular kerosene iet fuel—- ! not the more volatile mixture - of kerosene and petrol known 1 as JP4. said the hoard