HARVEY, La. (WGNO) — In July, a documentary by filmmaker Royd Anderson, will be screened at two Jefferson Parish Libraries to commemorate the 40 th anniversary of the Pan Am Flight 759 crash. Pan Am ...

KENNER, La. — As a torrential storm pounded Kenner, Pan Am Flight 759 took off from New Orleans International Airport. Moments later, a powerful windshear slammed the plane into a Kenner neighborhood, ...

KENNER, La. — Dennis Woltering was one of the first reporters on the scene of the tragic crash of Pan Am flight 759 on July 9, 1982. Here is one of his reports looking back on the day. It was 1982.

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"Pan Am Flight 759," a documentary by filmmaker Royd Anderson, will be screened at two Jefferson Parish Libraries on Saturday, July 9, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the crash. The first ...

Bob Walker, a 36-year-old disc jockey for WTIX radio, was driving to his home in Metairie's Bissonet Plaza in July 1982 when he saw the smoke plumes and smelled something burning. He called his radio ...

The crash of Pan Am Flight 759 left physical and emotional scars on the region that still linger. The most tragic and fatal crash in the U.S. that year, and in fact one of the most deadly airplane ...

The worst commercial aircraft crash in Louisiana history occurred in the city of Kenner on July, 9, 1982. This documentary examines the tragedy of Pan Am Flight 759. There are interviews with ...