B727 Pan Am Flight 759 Plane Crash Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport - July 9, 1982
Pan Am Flight 759 was a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight from Miami to San Diego, with en route stops in New Orleans and Las Vegas. On July 9, 1982, the Boeing 727 flying this route crashed in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner after being forced down by a microburst shortly after takeoff. All 145 on board and 8 people on the ground were killed. The crash had the highest number of aviation fatalities in 1982.
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