Corrections: - The Pan Am building was on Park Avenue, not Fifth - The Pan Am cockpit crew in the Tenerife disaster survived.

@RoberttheJunker

Ай бұрын

Thank you, really enjoy and appreciate these videos. This is among your best. How about Howard Hughes next?

@triciac.5078

Ай бұрын

Thank you. I was just coming here to make the second correction.😀 Glad to see you already did it.

@jocelynharris-fx8ho

Ай бұрын

The Captain at Tenerife was Victor Grubbs, the First Officer was Robert Bragg. Flight Engineer George Warns. Rest in peace Flight 103 crew: Captain James McQuarrie, First Officer Ray Waggoner and Flight Engineer Jerry Avritt.😢 ⚰️✈️

@creid7537

Ай бұрын

1:02:06 It is not Grand Central Station, but Grand Central Terminal.

@onkelkonkel5

Ай бұрын

Interestingly, first officer Robert Bragg continued flying for 20 more years until his retirement. He passed away in 2017, 79 years old.

Yo Sean, I gotta say, in a time where youtube is really really pushing creators into short form content, I love that you're sticking to these long form deep dives. I'm SO sick of these interesting topics only getting enough coverage depth to occupy the attention span of a twitter user

@DiamondKingStudios

Ай бұрын

It’s commitment to the craft. One cannot help but respect it.

@RoberttheJunker

Ай бұрын

Sean is crushing it

@user-cg3vd5yv2c

Ай бұрын

/thread

@jrt2792

Ай бұрын

I believe that there's room for both long deep and short quick essays for everyone. Not everyone has a preference to watching a sinfor over an hour.

@courtneyjohnsonhaber4591

Ай бұрын

I love the small but dedicated community keeping good long form videos alive.

I checked myself into a psychiatry for 2 months in hopes of improving myself/my life and I cant even put it into words how grateful I am for your videos in this strange phase of my existence. Thank you and wish you the best!

@justcommenting4981

Ай бұрын

Hope you get well.

@SeanMunger

Ай бұрын

I hope that my work can help you through this difficult time. Thanks so much, and best wishes for your continued recovery.

@SteveBurrus

Ай бұрын

But what do you think of JUAN TRIPPE and the creation of Pan Am Airways??

@KeithWilliamMacHendry

Ай бұрын

Best wishes, be strong. Respect from a Scotsman. 🙏🏻

@oliverstewart784

Ай бұрын

internet stranger here wishing you all the best in your healing 💜

The fact pensions aren't fully insured and protected is so obscene.

@zigabarbaric3464

Ай бұрын

In many countries they are - as the money is collected ny the state - the more you pay in, the more you get out. Ok if the state goes bankrupt you are in trouble, but this is far less likely than a private company going bust. And in addition you can also go for private pension insurance - where the insurance companies usually deposit the money in a combo of things, mostly bonds of other countries.

@localenterprisebroadcastin5971

Ай бұрын

Right?! Especially since the company operated with subsidies most of its existence…you’d think with the unions and everything there would have been an untouchable fund that gets cashed out if the company goes bust…I’m sure everyone thought that’s how it was but the weasel board members probably got their golden parachutes while screwing everyone else

@creeperdude26

Ай бұрын

@@zigabarbaric3464 tbf, if the state goes bankrupt, the least of everyone's worries would be their pensions.

@hjr2000

Ай бұрын

I believe they are in the UK these days but they didn't used to be.

@ChrisSmith-mi2zo

Ай бұрын

​@@hjr2000 Canada also only insured pensions fairly recently, in part as a response to the collapse of NorTel and the loss of all those pensions.

This is what KZread was made for. Factual, well researched, and interesting/entertaining.

@garrettblack

Ай бұрын

Well, it was made to host video of Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction. But this is a great application!

My grandmother's partner was a woman named Betty Leo. She was an engineer and metallurgist with Pratt & Whitney, who had won the contract to build the massive engines for the 747. The problem they were having was the size of the fan blades required a level of purity in the steel that couldn't be achieved with the methods of the time. Betty came up with the process by which the micro-impurities in the steel could be detected and extracted prior to casting, making the engine viable. If this problem couldn't be solved, they were actually considering going with a dual engine pod design like on the B-52. However, that would've been a terrible solution, as fuel consumption would have risen, efficiency would have fallen off, and the plane's range would have been cut considerably. The 747 would never have operated as advertised. Yeah, there for a time, Betty Leo was the darling of the aerospace engineering world. Sikorsky Aircraft tried to poach her. The brass at P&W just about offered to ritually amputate their own body parts to keep her there.

@blofeld39

Ай бұрын

Please, tell us more about your lesbian metallurgist grandmother! 😀Did your grandmother adopt, or have kids some other way?

@Damndyingkid

Ай бұрын

These are the treasured stories I search for in KZread comments.

@Damndyingkid

Ай бұрын

I wish there was more about her these are the stories I searched for in KZread comments

@babboon5764

Ай бұрын

A fascinating supplement right there - Thanks Keith

@jeanherndon4536

Ай бұрын

I did not pick up on the lesbian angle at first read. Betty Leo must have been very smart to have solved such an important problem. It is good to hear of any one who solves problems.

I am 73 years old. I remember flying on Pan American from Guam to Hawaii & later to Europe. No matter what class you flew, the service was great. Such a class airline. I was very sad when they ended.

I asked myself TODAY, "How did PanAm go from being this gigantic company to failing?" after I saw their logo on a video of NYC in the 70s. This video, from one of my favorite KZreadrs, could not have come at a more perfect time.

@savannah115

Ай бұрын

Did you ask yourself outloud? Cause I KNOW KZread is somehow listening to me through my phone-videos that pop up are suddenly about very specific topics that I am sure I never searched online for, but HAD just been talking about. Creeps me the eff out. Edit: all my microphone permissions SAY they are turned off, but it's pretty clear they aren't.

@piedpiper1172

Ай бұрын

@@savannah115It’s probably your television (not joking)

@workouts_2024

Ай бұрын

Let's not forget the Leonard DeCaprio movie "Catch Me if You Can" where the protagonist successfuly fakes being a Pan Am pilot and gets all the hostesses to swoon over him.

As soon as I get home from work it's Elden ring on the main monitor and this video on the side. Like cheese & wine 🍷🧀

@Chilidogsunday

Ай бұрын

A mood brother, a mood for sure 🤙🏼

@cwj2733

Ай бұрын

my boy 🤝

@antoniokastrocarlisledemel6617

Ай бұрын

Heh heh yeah man I'm with u on that especially 1997-2002

@rosemaryamundson4542

Ай бұрын

Like all things George RR Martin is involved with , Elden Ring is extraordinary. My nephews love it .

@Nickcase1981

Ай бұрын

I'm more of a beer, joints and history kinda fella but each to their own 😅

I have a cousin who was a flight attendant at Pan Am. She started in the early 1970s, and had near 20 years at the airline, and of course, accumulated her pension contributions there. Delta scavenged much of Pan Am's assets, and hired her on, with no seniority, and no pension fund. Pretty much starting over. She retired from Delta sometime ~2010.

@sidsarkar

Ай бұрын

So she lost her pension she saved at pan am?

@TheKnitch

Ай бұрын

My dad also lost his pension amidst that clusterf*ck. It was awful.

I'm going to watch this after work on my TV with a big bowl of popcorn and a hot beverage, as God intended.

@erikgriswold5273

Ай бұрын

I was always told God prefers beverages to be cold but you do you.

@EuTrabalhoParaSagres510

Ай бұрын

Let's be honest, it's gonna be tea 😅

@perrynnlynch1883

Ай бұрын

Good call. I'll swap the hot beverage for a cool beer though.

@nicoogden

Ай бұрын

Thank you for setting the standard. This is the way.

I was never born when Pan Am was around, but I am a part of the Pan Am Museum foundation and this video is so highly detailed. Thank you for taking the time to discuss the history of Pan Am and to help keep the history of this amazing company alive.

@andysorensen1737

Ай бұрын

I was hoping someone from the Museum saw this! I’m an occasional listener of the podcast which is so well done.

I like the bit where you try to reason with a KZread robot

@DiamondKingStudios

Ай бұрын

If a human moderator somehow messes this up, I just don’t know what to say about it.

This is how documentaries should be made. Dense with information; narrated with an A.M. radio voice! Top notch

My childhood neighbor was a flight attendant for Pan Am, great to see this iconic airline getting attention. Amazing as always Sean!🙌

When I was 5, my father was transferred to Germany, so my family flew there on PanAm. This was in 1973. I remember the flight attendants being really nice and paying a lot of attention to me, handing out gifts such as a pair of metal pilot wings and a coloring book with coloring pencils, all of which I kept for years afterward. PanAm fostered a lot of goodwill in my eyes.

@TheOlenyash

27 күн бұрын

Pilot wings? Wow! I to this day remember a pilot giving a 3-year old me a candy. Can't even imagine how overwhelming it could have been for you to get the wings!

It is funny how a video like this can make you nostalgic for a time you never lived in, for an airline you never flew on.

I'm a young airline mechanic and aviation history nerd, and I thoroughly enjoyed this. A good friend recommended this video to me, and I'm glad they did!!

Sean, I was a history major at UGA and own a pub in the mountains of Northern Thailand now. Even though my career has nothing to do with my degree, I still consider myself a major “history buff” and I’m so pleased that I found your channel. I’ve watched almost all your vids, some multiple times, and just want to commend you on the work you put into these top notch deep dive vids. Cheers to you Sir 🙌🏼

@DiamondKingStudios

Ай бұрын

Fellow Bulldog here; seems rather illustrious for an alum of the university. Hope the pub is going well.

I have been looking for a deep dive into Pan Am for so long! The thoroughness of these videos are so satisfying. There are so many others that I feel only skim a topic!

I kid y'all not, Sean 100% has saved lives with these videos. He's generational.

Thankful I had the opportunity to fly Pan Am nearly every Summer to Yugoslavia from 1969-1988 (save for 1971, 1973, and 1982) to visit friends and family. Pan Am, National, Southern, and Eastern were the carriers my family traveled on to fly from Tallahassee to Belgrade. Visiting the Clipper Club at JFK in the 70s and 80s was a real treat. The view of the airport from the Club windows was unsurpassed. I even had the chance to fly on the Delta/Pan Am interchange from LHR-IAD-ATL twice in '75 and '76. Lots of memories.

Born in 1992, I missed the last great days of air travel. "Pan Am" (2011) rocked!

Sean I don’t know how you did it, but these comments sections are like sitting in the classroom of that one favorite professor everyone had. In fact I’d bet it’s better than that given we all can talk amongst ourselves as much as we want and it doesn’t interrupt your lecture.

As a true crime girlie, I had no idea I'd love and look forward to history podcasts so much! I'm so glad I discovered you. Keep it up. Thanks so much for all of your hard work!

@braytechexoscience2790

Ай бұрын

True crime is just modern crime history!

I worked for Pan Am in the early 60's when they were deeply involved with NASA developing the very beginning of space flight. AS a employee I had the privilege of talking to John Glen on his fist flight. It was a great company and I have fond memories of those days.

New Sean Munger video, life's good

I can’t stop binging your videos, so much cool history I juuust missed out on. My Uncle was a pilot with Pan Am after retiring from the military! Thanks for covering history through geography, it’s a great way for me to connect the dots and think about your videos with context.

This was incredibly well-researched, thorough, and insightful. I’m a lifelong aviation fanboy as well as a former employee at two different major US airlines. The depth and detail presented are extraordinary. Well done!

I love my monthly munger moment!

Thank you so much for your work, Sean! There are too many history KZreadrs who fail to provide proper context, intentionally misrepresent history for ideological reasons, or just plain have no idea what they are talking about. There are not enough history KZreadrs who are actual historians or history professors. As a history prof, I've considered creating my own videos too, but I lack your talents as a communicator. You are doing a great service to history education on KZread.

@SeanMunger

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

@diannholland

Ай бұрын

Don't Downplay yourself @dimetronome ! If you are a professor of History, You have EVERYTHING you need to be a History KZreadr. And when you DO start your channel I will be there to watch it.

@squillz8310

Ай бұрын

You have what everyone has, a personality!! All you have to do is be yourself and have fun. That's all you need to make videos. The audience will grow naturally, and from personal experience, it's a very rewarding feeling!

I clicked on the notification so fast, excited for an another long video!

I've been waiting for a new long form creator and this has been the best channel I have come across, thank you for the work you have put into these videos.

Some of the best historical content on KZread! I think you've got a really distinct voice that manages to be fairly objective without completely withholding your own personal opinions or perspective when appropriate. These long form videos are definitely the way to go. I also love how seemingly random and eclectic your choice of topics are

I just got home from work working on the kitchen line. You don’t understand how much this made my day. Don’t get me wrong today’s been a good day. But this absolutely sent it over the top🙏🙏

I fall in between the two categories of viewers you set out. Old enough to have been alive in '91, not old enough to recall Pan Am myself, but also having grown up with my grandparents and father lamenting that we couldn't take Pan Am for a big family vacation. They certainly believed no other airline could or would ever do what Pan Am did.

Sean I just rabbit holed my way into this video and I'm so glad I did . I live outside of Philadelphia and my father retired from Boeing's Helicopter home plant . He was in finance and payroll but he shared with me a love of the airline and aviation industry. I find re-creations of accidents while tragic and incredibly sad, are so thorough and massively investigative puzzles. Showcasing some of the best detective work and reconstructions done in forensics in any field. The changes made because of these accidents to the standards and safety of flying always have massive impacts in the industry as they should.. So that's how I ended up here and I'm 53 so I know of Juan Trippe but your info here is so thorough and informative that it takes it to the next level. And what you already put on the page looks intriguing to me. I'm looking for to your other videos. I wanted to reach out and thank you for your hard work and tell you that you are in a class by yourself my friend. Thanks again Sean. ✌️💪❤️

Oh man - this tickles all the sweet spots in my brain. Thanks for putting in the work.

I seriously cant get over how well researched and produced this video is ! You earned another subscriber.

Thank you for putting these videos together. You have a great narrative approach and I like how you pick topics that aren't covered elsewhere on KZread. Keep up the good work. Cheers

loved it! you're so calming and thorough, I think you could talk about anything and I would be here to listen to it. Loved seeing the behind the scenes for this one, and excited to see what the next video will be!

This is one of the best YT videos I’ve ever watched. I love history, and I appreciate your details of what was going in popular culture at each point in time.

In a world quickly becoming mostly AI narrated it is so refreshing to watch your presentations and to listen to the cadence of a real person who intelligently researched, put this information together and presented it beautifully! Much appreciated and thanks so much!

My TV broke. I bought a new one for the sole purpose of watching and rewatching your presentations. Thank you for your efforts 😊

Yet another amazing episode! Thank you so much, Sean, and keep up the great work.

I love your channel, Sean! The stories you tell are eclectic and always interesting. Thank you, sir.

This video was awesome! Pan Am is a fascinating part of a period in history that really interests me: Post WW2 through to the 80s. When I was finishing high school in 2012, I realized how little of that period I had learned about in school and, ever since then, I'm always jumping at the bit to learn about this era of history. Thanks for a wonderful peek into such an iconic piece of American history!

As someone who has been binging mentour pilot lately the synergy im feeling is off the charts rn

Mr Munger- This was one of the best videos I've ever seen on youtube. Excellent! And I appreciate the absence of the usual bad music. Your solo crisp narration is riveting.

Oh man I was at the edge of my seat for this video! Loved your dive into how you create your engaging trips through history!

This is all so crazy. I have lived in New York my whole life and have never heard of panam (born 2003). It’s insane to me how all this history is just sitting right here, around me. Great video, so interesting and well put together as always.

Hello Sean. Happy that the KZread algorithm finally presented something worth watching. I have been an airline geek since I was a child. I was too young to experience the real PAN AM HOWEVER, in 1996 I was hired by Martin Shugrue as a flight attendant for the PAN AM restart. Absolute shit show. Lasted 2 years but I will tell you I loved being a part of what was something so great. I have been with Delta now since 1999. OUTSTANDING job. I thought I knew everything about PAN AM until your series. Thank you VERY much for giving this once great airline some post mortem love. PS: I am also an ocean liner fanatic as well.

I just found this channel and man have I been missing out! I love a good long form video and this one hits the spot! Please keep up this amazing work man!

I like the little interjections of what movies were in theaters etc. Really makes it come to life, by way of providing some personal context if you know what I mean.

I have been looking like content that you put on your channel for a couple of years. Thank you for doing this! I will now be catching up on all of your videos!

I am so glad I found this video and your channel! Thank you!

love your videos!!! always an interesting (hi)story to share, well researched and with some amusing additions. ever since i found your channel i had hoped you'd venture into the history of this ,quite frankly, iconic company - the day has come!! have been waiting for this since your community post!

Thank you so much for the long video. Infinitely better than 1000 short clips.

I love how you add other historical events alongside the main topic during the timeline. Very well done!

Been a while since I've done a long haul. Once again, a story I'd never have thought to wonder about told wonderfully. Thank you!

I absolutely love your videos. Thank you for investing your time and energy into each one of them.

Though living on the Isle of Borneo, a few thousand miles away from the US & Pan Am's NY, I followed American & European history with deep interest via YT. I spent hours on numerous videos & contents of historical topics. Your take on the Pan Am story is one of the best. I wasn't born yet when the Pan Am story began, never flew on its planes, but I cherished my flight on a 747 from KL to San Francisco, transiting Taipeh, in late 1997. AVA Air I think. Great job.

I’ve been looking forward to this all week!

Thank you for this thorough and well put together coverage of the history of Pan Am. It's the only airline I could ever recall growing up in the 70s and as a kid I fantasized about being able to fly on it one day. Unfortunately, by the time I was starting a career and traveling for business it was no more so could never check that one off. I always wondered what really happened to what I remembered as a mainstay in the airline industry. This great piece answered all my questions. Thank you for sharing!

Your videos are seriously engaging. The most in-depth topical analysis' that I've come across. So much so that I'm more than happy to watch topics from you that I typically have no interest in. Thank you for putting in such effort to make them so informative.

Thank you for starting my weekend off right, Sean. ❤

Makin’ some of the best history content in KZread, period.

WHAT AN INCREDIBLE VIDEO! Thanks so much for this! I just found your channel and I'm hooked!

Crazy how you can make even the most seemingly mundane topic so so so so so interesting. I had no desire to learn about some random American airline from the 50s or the presidency of Franklin Pierce before I found you're channel. So so so great!

I remember seen the clipper birds at México airports in the late 70's. This video brought the good nostalgia of those Pan Am's wonderful glory days! I still keep a model kit with its liberty. We love in a constantly changing world, with so many companies gone!

Hi from New Zealand... Sean, your long format efforts are a joy too those of us who despair at the quick junk that proliferates. Your a awesome story teller and thanks very much.

you are the gold standard of documentary production-- I'm amazed at the research you put into every video. Having worked at National and Eastern ; I couldn't believe seeing things I knew were true and deeply buried.

Just stumbled over this channel and by god, i love it! Great job!

Thank you Sean for this video. Nicely and thoroughly done! I once flew on a PanAm 747 as a teen home from Hawaii. They were top class. I even remember the derbies the “stewardesses” (long before ‘flight attendant’ became PC) wore. And their service was top notch. That was 1972 when flying was still considered glamorous.

I graduated college recently and miss hearing really good lectures (rare while in school but i had a few really talented and passionate professors) and your longer videos really scratch that itch. thank you for all your hard work!

This is a fanastic case study! I'm getting my degree in aviation management and the history of Pan Am had almost every possible change, risk, trend, and loss in aviation. Whenever I'm trying to find an example to complete an assignment, there is almost ALWAYS a example from Pan Am.

another excellent video Sean! I love the topics you choose and the dedication you give to them. Never considered myself a huge history fan but you make it interesting. Thanks as always for the amazing content!!!

Yet another amazing video, thank you, Sean.

I’ve wanted this exact video for a long time! Thanks for making it

Thank you for a well researched and well presented video on a fascinating topic. Well done.

Fantastic video as always, Sean.

Love, love, love your videos. I did fly Pan Am (yup I feel old) once. This brings back memories. I was headed back from a year as an exchange student in America to Germany in the 1980s, flying from New York to Frankfurt. The flight was delayed by almost 12 hours, I don't remember why. We were a bunch of teenagers dropped off at the airport, with no way to contact anyone at home to let them know what happened. It was quite the adventure. I remember how huge the plane seemed and I think they showed a movie on a screen that was lowered in mid cabin.

Fantastic documentary! Many thanks for making this

the best channel on youtube in my humble opinion

Nice! I was waiting for this :)

Great video as always Sean. I'm glad that I could help out.

Fascinating story, thanks for de dedicated work Sean!

Nice work, sir. You've earned yourself a new subscriber.

My mother worked for Pan Am in the 70s. I had the pleasure of flying aboard many 747 & 707 Clippers as a kid! Thanks for remembering Pan Am!

This was fantastic, thank you so much for putting this together, new subscriber

I discovered this today and this is my second video. Very informative and interesting!

Criminally under-subbed; excellent video, Sean 👍

Fabulous video. Many thanks!!

This is a great video, I really dig your style and delivery!

F-yeah; I’ve been waiting for the new video!

This was a fascinating story. You are a GREAT story teller!!!!! Thank you

That was an excellent and clearly presented history of PanAm. Thank you.

Thank you for your amazing work Dr. Munger!

wonderful storytelling. Thank you!

fab video thanks Sean, enjoying making my way through it