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| | Pan American Airways Douglas DC-7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Remarks by Jack McKillop: Douglas DC-7C, msn 44887, delivered to Pan American World Airways of New York, New York, USA, on 29 August 1956, registered N745PA and named "Clipper Midnight Sun;" it was later renamed "Clipper Fortune." The aircraft was subsequently converted to a DC-7C/F freighter and was written off on 18 February 1961. |
 | | On that date, the First Officer was making an Instrument Landing System (ILS) approach to Stuttgart, Germany, when the plane suddenly hit a 10-foot (3-meter) high mound of earth located 66-feet (20-meters) short of the runway threshold and 149 feet (45.4-meters) north of the north edge of the runway. |
 | | Control was maintained and the flight crew managed to climb away and divert to Nurnberg Airport, Germany, for an emergency belly landing on a foamed runway. |
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