Remarks by Jack McKillop: Delivered to Pan American World Airways of New York, New York, USA, on August 29, 1956, registered N745PA and named "Clipper Midnight Sun;" it was later renamed "Clipper Fortune." The aircraft was subsequently converted to a DC-7C/F freighter and was written off on February 18, 1961. On that date, the First Officer was making an Instrument Landing System (ILS) approach to Stuttgart, Germany, when the plane suddenly hit a 10-foot (3-meter) high mound of earth located 66-feet (20-meters) short of the runway threshold and 149 feet (45.4-meters) north of the north edge of the runway. The impact tore off the landing gear and the Number 3 engine. Control was maintained and the flight crew managed to climb away and divert to Nurnberg Airport, Germany, for an emergency belly landing on a foamed runway."