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, ...

Pan Am 759: Deadly 1982 plane crash kills 153 in Kenner On July 9, 1982, Pan Am Flight 759 crashed in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner after being forced down by a microburst shortly after takeoff.

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 ...

KENNER, LA (WGNO) — The City of Kenner will honor the victims of Pan Am Flight 759 during a memorial service on Saturday, the 40th anniversary of the crash that killed 145 people. The city is ...

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 ...

“Pan Am Flight 759," the film documenting the 1982 airline crash that killed 154 people in Kenner, will be screened at 6:30 p.m. May 23 at the Eastbank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave. in ...