Pan Am Flight 708

Pan Am Flight 708 (PA 708) was a cargo flight that crashed on initial approach less than 10 mi (16 km) west-southwest of its destination airport, Berlin Tegel in Germany, in the early morning hours of November 15, 1966.

The cause was undetermined because US investigators were not allowed to survey the impact site at a Soviet military training ground near Dallgow in what was then East Germany, and only half of the aircraft remains were returned by Soviet military authorities in East Germany to their US counterparts in former West Berlin.

But because of runway maintenance at Tempelhof, Pan Am shifted its flights to Tegel Airport.

At the time of the crash, the Soviet Union did not belong to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).

[2] Nations belonging to ICAO allow reciprocal visits by official observers in order to improve aviation safety.