The tragedy was back in the news last month when President Donald Trump gutted a citizens advisory committee established by Congress to examine aviation safety issues after the Pan Am 103 bombing.

The Honolulu Advertiser March 21, 1955 In 1955, Pan Am hired an initial class of 20 “Nisei” or second generation Japanese Americans to service flights between San Francisco, Honolulu and Tokyo ...

In 1965, trial runs on a rooftop helipad atop the Pan Am Building (now MetLife) began using a Chinook helicopter. The helipad would prove a short-lived project, but it represented an aspirational ...

Take Pan Am. America's premier airline boasted the first ever scheduled international flight and became an icon of early air travel. But this wasn't enough to save the company from going under.

"The Pan Am name is recognized globally not only from the Company's prior affiliation with the airline, but also by airlines worldwide as a premier partner for pilot and crew training," Nagel said.