* 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.

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 so-called Caledonian Case established a precedent and constituted the legal basis for all airlines that had always wanted to operate charters to and from the US and Canada, but had been unable to overcome the objections of the established airlines, such as Pan Am and British Overseas Airways Corporation ( BOAC ), prior to the enactment of this law.

This route made the Pan Am Clipper the fastest mode of transatlantic travel at the time — and very appealing to those who wanted to escape from Britain before the start of the war.

* Peter Pain ( Peter Pan ), wanted by the French government for the return of La Trompeuse stolen in Cayenne several years before, is captured and sent to Petit-Goâve.

Pan Am continued to expand worldwide throughout World War II, being one of the few airlines that was largely unaffected by the war.

Phi Lambda Alpha was seeking to expand throughout the United States and to promote the ideology of Pan Americanism.

* September 6 – Dawson's Field hijackings, The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacks 4 passenger aircraft from Pan Am, TWA and Swissair on flights to New York from Brussels, Frankfurt and Zürich.

In the 1960s, Pan Am established a waiting list for future flights to the Moon, issuing free " First Moon Flights Club " membership cards to those who requested them.

By the end of the year, Pan Am offered flights along the west coast of South America to Peru.

* On 6 September 1970, the PFLP ( including Leila Khaled ) hijacked four passenger aircraft from Pan Am, TWA and Swissair on flights to New York from Brussels, Frankfurt and Zürich, and failed in an attempt to hijack an El Al aircraft which landed safely in London after one hijacker was killed and the other overpowered ; and on 9 September 1970, hijacked a BOAC flight from Bahrain to London via Beirut.

The Pan Am flight was diverted to Cairo ; the TWA, Swissair and BOAC flights were diverted to Dawson's Field in Zarqa, Jordan.

* Pan American World Airways ( PANAM ) in the 1950s connected Havana to Miami with roughly 8 daily flights.

The airport was the base of Pan Am's flights to Cuba, but fell into disuse when the airline switched to seaplanes in the mid-1930s.

The airport opened to flights in 1928 as Pan American Field, the operating base of Pan American Airways Corporation, on the north side of the modern airport property.

That enabled BOAC to operate non-stop westbound flights from London and Manchester to New York and other US East Coast destinations, in competition with DC-7Cs of Pan American World Airways and Lockheed Super Constellations of Trans World Airlines ( TWA ).

Pan American World Airways estimated that between the ages of 16 and 18, Abagnale flew over on over 250 flights and flew to 26 countries, at Pan Am's expense, by deadheading.

After the war United Airlines used the Pan Am terminal for its DC-6 flights to Hawaii starting in 1947.

Weekly flights to Mexico City began in 1961 on Pan American.

The first scheduled airline flights were Northwest and Trans-Canada in 1947 ; Western and United moved from Boeing Field in the next couple of years, and Pan Am in 1952 – 53, but West Coast stayed at Boeing Field until after the Hughes merger.

Ransome Airlines operated Delta Connection flights from March 1, 1984, to June 1, 1986, when it was purchased by Pan Am.

* July 3 – 6 – Pan American World Airways and Imperial Airways flying boats conduct joint survey flights over the Atlantic Ocean in preparation for the commencement of regular services.

Following the cessation of direct Tegel – New York scheduled services, Pan Am continued to operate affinity group / Advance Booking Charter ( ABC ) flights from Tegel to the USA on an ad hoc basis.

From the start of the 1974 – 75 winter season, Pan Am began operating a series of short-and medium-haul week-end charter flights from Tegel under contract to a leading West German tour operator.

In addition to operating a limited number of commercial flights from Tegel prior to its move from Tempelhof on 1 September 1975, Pan Am used it as a diversion airfield.

In addition, Pan Am Express also helped Pan Am increase the number of flights on some of the other scheduled routes it used to serve from Berlin such as Tegel – Zürich by operating additional off-peak frequencies.

In 1928, Pan American Airlines began scheduled flights from Key West.