Pan Am Captain Ogg

The story of a rescue at sea.

Pan am captain ogg.

Captain ogg decided he could wait no longer. Pan am historical foundation the new york times injuries were minor and all passengers and crew evacuated the airliner. 17th 1956 just over halfway from honolulu to san francisco captain richard ogg knew his flight was not going to make its destination. On the evening of october 15 1956 the flight left honolulu on a boeing 377.

They were immediately picked up by pontchartrain. Flight 6 left philadelphia as a dc 6b and flew eastward to europe and asia on a planned multi stop trip. 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. At 0540 captain ogg notified pontchartrain that he was preparing to ditch.

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. Pan am acquired the airliner during a merger. 14 1956 heading for san francisco with a crew of six and 24 passengers all seemed normal until ogg lost. 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.

Propsandpistons as pan am flight 6 a boeing 377 set off from honolulu at 9 30 p m. Pan am flight 6 had an engine failure and a runaway propeller in the middle of the night making it unable to. He held a valid airman certificate with airline transport rating and rating for the subject aircraft. 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.

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. 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. Ogg age 43 was employed by pan american world airways on february 20 194l. In the early morning hours of oct.

Twenty minutes after touching down at 6 35 a m sovereign of the skies sank beneath the ocean s surface. Ogg was chosen as the three letter identifier for the maui vor to honor a pan am captain who had successfully ditched a boeing stratocruiser less than a year earlier halfway between honolulu and san francisco captain richard ogg. The ditching of pan am flight 6 on october 16 1956 pan american flight 6.