The crash in 1952 killed 52 people and led to requirements for the passenger safety briefings given on every commercial flight.

The tragedy was pivotal in creating the preflight safety briefing and emergency procedure demonstrations on flights.

The wreckage from a Pan Am plane crash in the ocean 74 years ago that helped lead to requirements for the passenger safety briefings on every flight today has been found off the coast of Puerto Rico.

Nearly 75 years after a Pan Am passenger plane crashed off the coast of Puerto Rico, wreckage from the historic accident has been uncovered. In 1952, a plane bound for New York lost engine power on

Seventy-four years after a Pan Am flight crashed into the water off Puerto Rico, killing 52 people and prompting sweeping reforms including preflight passenger safety briefings, an aviation search team has found the wreckage sitting on the ocean floor.

More than 70 years after a Pan Am plane crash off Puerto Rico prompted a major overhaul in airline safety, searchers have finally found the wreckage. According to the Associated Press, Pan Am Flight 526A,

The Pan American Airways Clipper Endeavor crashed in April 1952 after multiple engine failures forced a water landing

Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board were at the crash site on June 15, a day after a skydiving plane crashed in Missouri.

Searchers have located the wreckage of a Pan Am DC-4 that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off Puerto Rico in 1952, a disaster that killed 52 people and helped spur major airline safety reforms.

A small plane crashed onto the roof of a Richmond area home Monday morning after an attempted landing near a private airstrip.

Ten people died after a Cessna 402 crashed in the Bahamas. The Bahamas Musicians and Entertainers Union said Bahamian musicians and a DJ are among the dead.