{"id":563692,"date":"2026-07-23T04:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T04:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/563692\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T04:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T04:13:11","slug":"wreckage-of-plane-found-in-atlantic-74-years-after-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/563692\/","title":{"rendered":"Wreckage of plane found in Atlantic, 74 years after crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some 74 years after a passenger plane crashed off Puerto Rico, an aviation search team has found the wreckage on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Compulsory emergency procedure demonstrations for commerical flights were introduced in the aftermath of the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>The Pan American Airways aircraft, named Clipper Endeavor, was located by the Air\/Sea Heritage Foundation and others, including Discovery Channel&#8217;s series &#8220;Expedition Unknown&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Discovery confirmed the wreckage was found off Puerto Rico&#8217;s north coast last month.<\/p>\n<p>The Douglas DC-4 aircraft broke into two sections and came to rest after crashing into the ocean shortly after taking off from the Caribbean island on 11 April 1952.<\/p>\n<p>The 64 passengers and five crew members on board survived the initial impact.<\/p>\n<p>However, just 17 people &#8211; 12 passengers and five crew &#8211; were rescued as the plane sank.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pan American plane Clipper Endeavor crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 1952\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0024be11-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nPan Am plane Clipper Endeavor crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 1952<\/p>\n<p>The disaster led to sweeping aviation reforms, with the introduction of pre-flight safety briefings and emergency procedure demonstrations on commercial flights.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are all stunned and elated by this discovery yet also humbled to remember what happened in that place so long ago,&#8221; President of the Air\/Sea Heritage Foundation Russ Matthews said.<\/p>\n<p>The search, involving the Deep Sea Vision company, used high-resolution sonar, and autonomous underwater drones.<\/p>\n<p>It located the wreckage almost 610m below the surface of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some 74 years after a passenger plane crashed off Puerto Rico, an aviation search team has found the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-563692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}