PAN AM GRAVE WRECKAGE EMERGES

A ghost from the jet age has finally been dragged up from the deep. More than 74 years after a Pan Am flight vanished off Puerto Rico, searchers say they’ve found the wreckage of the Clipper Endeavor, the New York-bound plane that went down just 10 minutes after takeoff from San Juan on Good Friday in 1952, killing 52 people. The remains, described as largely intact and split into two sections, still show the Pan Am logo, a haunting relic of a tragedy that helped force major changes in pre-flight safety procedures. The crash was brutal and bizarre: multiple engine failure sent the aircraft into the sea with 64 passengers and five crew on board, and everyone survived the initial impact only to face a second horror as the plane began taking on water in rough seas. Floatation devices were on board and protocols existed, but the aircraft sank within minutes, sealing the fate of 52 souls. Now, after a seven-year search led by the Air/Sea Heritage Foundation with Discovery Channel, the wreck has finally been found — and with it

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