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Pan Am Flight 7

A Pan Am Stratocruiser similar to the accident aircraft.
A Pan Am Stratocruiser similar to the accident aircraft.
  • ... that the cause of the crash of Pan Am Flight 7 (similar aircraft pictured) was never able to be determined? Source: CAB report
    • ALT1:... that the week-long search for Pan Am Flight 7 (similar aircraft pictured) was the largest search and rescue operation in the Pacific Ocean at the time? Source: San Francisco Examiner 16 Jan 1958

5x expanded by RecycledPixels (talk). Self-nominated at 19:12, 21 August 2019 (UTC).

  • Review by Maile
QPQ
  • No QPQ needed, not enough previous nominations
Eligibility
  • DYK Check tool verifies 321102 characters (3621 words) "readable prose size". 2049 characters prior to 5X expansion that began on August 17
Sourcing
  • All verifiable sourcing used.
Hook
  • Hooks sourcing verified
  • Original hook is 78 characters
  • ALT1 is 122 characters
Images
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Symbol question.svg This is a really fascinating and detailed article. I found some grammar awkwardness that should be clarified:

  • " ... the aircraft had suffered a runaway propeller as it departed San Francisco ... " Was there something wrong with the propeller?
    Runaway propellers had been described in the last paragraph of the Aircraft section before I added the citation about the San Francisco incident, overlooking the fact that I hadn't yet defined what a runaway propeller was. I moved the section describing the overall history of the Stratocruisers, which includes defining what a runaway propeller is, to the second paragraph of that section.
  • " ... and centrifugal force forces ... " Awkward wording.
    Agreed. I changed that.
  • " ... had been flying with the company since 1942 since his graduation ... " Perhaps, " ... since his 1942 graduation ..."
    Agreed. Another instance of writing and rewriting to add and move information around.
  • "As soon as the aircraft was reported missing and all fuel supplies had been exhausted ... " Whose fuel supplies?
    The missing aircraft. I reworded that sentence to more clearly state that.

Please let me know. — Maile (talk) 16:14, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, I have made the edits described above. RecycledPixels (talk) 16:05, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

Symbol confirmed.svg Good job. This nomination passes. — Maile (talk) 16:08, 3 September 2019 (UTC)