A 74 -year -old aviation mystery has finally been solved.Cameras capturing the moment the missing Pan Am passenger plane was found on the ocean floor.Raymond Dale has the story.
Missing for 74 years, this was the moment the search for a piece of aviation history finally paid off.
Stop!Oh my God!Is that a plane?That's a plane.
There, in the waters off Puerto Rico, 2 ,000 feet below the surface, the fuselage and that iconic Pan Am logo.
Oh my God, there's writing.
It's her.The Discovery Channel team had just found Clipper Endeavour.The plane was heading to New York.
Yeah, to what's now JFK, and it was Good Friday.Yeah, people were flying up here from Puerto Rico for the Easter weekend.
It was April 11th, 1952.Pan Am flight 256 had just left San Juan, Puerto Rico when they suddenly lost two engines and crashed.But in 1952, there were no flight attendant safety briefings.
People did not know where the exits were.They didn't know where flotation devices were.
52 of the 69 people on board died.Fast forward to 2026 and the Discovery team was offered an advanced autonomous underwater drone used for surveying gas and mineral fields.
That's a plane!Whoa!That's a plane!
Oh, my God!The haunting images of the final resting place for 52 people and a crash that changed aviation safety forever.Pre -flight safety briefings made mandatory.
This is the only grave marker that those people will really likely ever have, and so it's important to remember that debt that we owe them.
A piece of history no longer lost at sea.Raymond Dale, 7 News.
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