379: The Pan Am Flight 7 Seven Crash w/ Ken Fortenberry

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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My guest this week is award-winning journalist Ken Fortenberry, author of "Flight 7 Is Missing: The Search for My Father's Killer". He walks us through the ill-fated flight of Pan Am's luxurious "Romance of the Skies", a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser that mysteriously crashed into the Pacific Ocean in November of 1957. Forty-four people were killed, including his own father, who copiloted and navigated the plane. His decades long investigation of the crash has led him to the conclusion that the victims were murdered, and he shares with us who he believes the killer is. The author's website: https://kenfortenberry.com/ The author's publisher page: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Flight-7-is-Missing/Ken-Fortenberry/9781949024074 This episode is sponsored by Strawberry .me. Get a $50 credit when you use our link: https://strawberry.me/notorious Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	Music Hello, everyone, this is Eric Rivenus, and welcome to another episode of the Most Notorious
1:34.2	podcast. My guest today is Ken Fortenberry. He is an award-winning journalist, author, and
1:41.2	former newspaper publisher, and I am very excited to talk to him about his book,
1:47.2	Flight 7 is Missing, The Search for My Father's Killer.
1:52.1	I so appreciate you coming on. Great, great to talk with you.
1:55.7	Eric, thanks so much. Yes. So as the title states, this is a story that's obviously very personal to you. Would
2:06.3	you tell us more? Well, it's pretty simple. The subject of this story is the plane crash in
2:13.1	November 1957. That killed my father and 43 other folks. So it had been my passion since I was a child
2:22.6	was only six years old at the time to determine why this plane crashed because it had never been
2:29.1	dissolved. The mystery had never been resolved by federal investigators. And just as a child, I just
2:37.4	didn't want to leave that unresolved. So I began pursuing it as a youngster.
2:44.3	Would you tell us about your father and his work for Pan Am?
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