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Many great air mysteries start as if everything is going normally. On November 8, 1957, Pan American Flight 7 took to the skies from San Francisco International Airport on its way to Honolulu, Hawaii carrying 36 passengers and 8 crew members. This was to be just the first leg of a much longer journey for the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, also known by the nickname
Romance of the Skies, as this was to be an around-the-world flight, stopping at a further 15 intermediate stops before eventually arriving in Philadelphia the following week. Pan American was the first airline to offer such around-the-world flights, and at the time it was a pretty exciting thing, a big deal, but this particular flight was not to complete its ambitious journey. In fact, it would never even reach Hawaii, and would fly into the domain of great unexplained aviation mysteries.