Guinness World Record
The crash of Pan Am flight 214 was registered in the Guinness Book of World Records (2005) as the "Worst Lightning Strike Death Toll." (In 1971, LANSA Flight 508 was also brought down by a lightning strike. However, though this crash would have more total casualties (91 fatalities), up to fourteen passengers survived the crash but perished waiting for help in the Peruvian jungle.)
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