THROWBACKTHISDAY; Pan Am Flight 214, a Boeing 707, is struck by lightning and crashes near Elkton, Maryland.

                         

Pan Am Flight 214 was a scheduled flight of Pan American World Airways from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Baltimore, Maryland, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On December 8, 1963, the Boeing 707 serving the flight crashed near Elkton, Maryland while en route from Baltimore to Philadelphia, to after being hit by lightning, killing all 81 on board.^[1] The accident is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records (2005) as the "Worst Lightning Strike Death Toll. It remains the deadliest airplane crash in Maryland state history.

THROWBACKTHISDAY; makes it 52 years and TBT Blog remembers.