* 1982 – A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one teenager and injuring 15 passengers.

* 1999 – Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.

* Americas: Badminton Pan Am ( North America and South America belong to the same confederation ; BPA )

* 1963 – Pan Am Flight 214, a Boeing 707, is struck by lightning and crashes near Elkton, Maryland, United States, killing all 81 people on board.

* Pan Am Flight 125 ( 1987 )

On 21 December 1988, Dewar was in Lockerbie after the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, as the member of the Shadow Cabinet in charge of Scottish affairs.

IBM is given fictional credit as being the manufacturer of the Pan Am Clipper's computer, and the IBM logo can be seen in the center of the cockpit's instrument panel.

* 2001 – In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.

* 1982 – Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana killing all 145 people on board and eight others on the ground.

Pan Am wanted to expand flights into the Pacific and include Australia and New Zealand to their " Clipper " air routes.

As a result of the tragedy, Pan Am ended flights to New Zealand via Kingman Reef and Pago Pago.

The incident bore close similarities to the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 ( the Lockerbie Bombing ) a year earlier.

In 1991, two Libyan intelligence agents were indicted by prosecutors in the United States and United Kingdom for their involvement in the December 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

The UN Security Council demanded that Libya surrender the suspects, cooperate with the Pan Am 103 and UTA 772 investigations, pay compensation to the victims ' families, and cease all support for terrorism.

Following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003, Gaddafi decided to abandon his weapons of mass destruction programs and pay almost 3 billion euros in compensation to the families of Pan Am Flight 103 and UTA Flight 772.

The Libyan government announced its decision to abandon its weapons of mass destruction programs and pay almost $ 3 billion dollars in compensation to the families of Pan Am Flight 103 and UTA Flight 772 .< ref > Marcus, Jonathan, ( 15 May 2006 ), < u >" Washington's Libyan fairy tale "< u >, BBC News.

On 31 October 2008, Libya paid $ 1. 5 billion, sought through donations from private businesses, to a fund that would be used to compensate both US victims of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 and the 1986 bombing of the La Belle disco in Germany.

As a result, United Nations Security Council Resolution 748 was approved on 31 March 1992, requiring Libya to surrender the suspects, cooperate with the Pan Am Flight 103 and UTA Flight 772 investigations, pay compensation to the victims ' families, and cease all support for terrorism.

On 31 January 2001, at the end of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial, Megrahi was convicted of murder and sentenced to 27 years in prison.

Later in that episode during the " Police Constable Pan Am Sketch ", the policeman tells a chemist " one more peep out of you and I'll do you for heresy ", with the chemist ( played by Palin ) responding that he " didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition "; except that instead of the Spanish Inquisition arriving, PC Pan Am ( played by Graham Chapman ) simply tells the chemist to shut up.

* 1977 – Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 ( all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am ).

61 survived on the Pan Am flight.

The S42B Pan American Clipper II, piloted by Captain Edwin Musick, landed at Kingman on its first flight on March 23, 1937.

They crossed into Portugal and subsequently traveled to the United States in two groups: on the USS Trenton from Lisbon to Baltimore in July 1940, and on the Pan American airliner Yankee Clipper in October 1940.

In 1939, DiMaggio was nicknamed the " Yankee Clipper " by Yankee's stadium announcer Arch McDonald, when he likened DiMaggio's speed and range in the outfield to the then-new Pan American airliner.

On August 11, 1982, while operating under the registry N754PA for its original owner Pan Am and nicknamed " Clipper Ocean Rover ," it was assigned to fly from Narita International Airport in Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu International Airport in Honolulu, Hawaii as Flight 830.

A military contractor, Mr. McClosky, bids farewell to his Hawaiian hosts as he boards the Pan American Clipper, also bound for Wake Island.

The Pan American Clipper is not damaged and is cleared to fly.

1941 advertising mailer for Pan Am's " Flying Clipper Cruises " to South America

Carrying the nicknames American Clipper, Southern Clipper, and Caribbean Clipper, they were the first of the series of 28 Clippers that came to symbolize Pan Am between 1931 and 1946.

On July 9, 1982 Clipper Defiance, a Boeing 727 – 235 ( N4737 ), operating as Pan Am flight 759, crashed minutes after takeoff from New Orleans Airport in the worst accident in aviation history involving microburst-induced wind shear.

On September 5, 1986 a Pan Am 747 named the Clipper Empress of the Seas ( N656PA ), operating as Pan Am flight 73, was taken over by hijackers while on a scheduled stop in Karachi.

** Boston-Maine Airways, sister company to this airline, which operated service under the Pan Am Clipper Connection brand

Noonan had recently left Pan Am, where he established most of the company's China Clipper seaplane routes across the Pacific.

Before its dissolution, Boston-Maine Airways ( Pan Am Clipper Connection ), a regional airline, was headquartered in Portsmouth.

On October 19, 1939, Chennault boarded Pan American Airways " California Clipper " ( Boeing B-314 ; NC18602 ) at the Pan American Airways terminal in Hong Kong.

Together, they departed on Tuesday, October 15, 1940, from Chungking ( Chongqing ), China, arriving at the Port of Hong Kong where they boarded American Clipper ( Boeing B-314, Pan American Airlines No. NC 18606, Captain J.

He departed Hong Kong on June 19, 1940 aboard Pan American Airways Honolulu Clipper ; departed Manila, Philippines, on June 21 ; arrived at Treasure Island, San Francisco, California, on June 25 ; departed from Naval Auxiliary Air Facility Mills Field, Oakland, California, at 7: 00 pm, June 25 aboard a United Airlines DC-3 ; arriving at Washington National Airport, June 26.

The Martin Company also produced the noted China Clipper flying boats used by Pan American Airways for its transpacific San Francisco to the Philippines route.

With a Song in My Heart is a 1952 biographical film which tells the story of actress and singer Jane Froman, who was crippled by an airplane crash on February 22, 1943, when the Boeing 314 Pan American Clipper flying boat she was on suffered a crash landing in the Tagus River near Lisbon, Portugal.

Pan Am became the first airline to cross the Pacific Ocean with the famous Clipper flying boats.