re: 40 years ago today, July 9, 1982, Pan Am flight 759 crashed

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Did you or anyone you worked with have a bad gut feeling about the weather that day?

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it was a terrible, incredibly intense thunderstorm, we weren't planning on taking off, it just kept building but we at least wanted to point the nose at it to see if there were any holes showing on the radar, of course when Pan Am 759 went down the airport was closed, the wind shear detection and avoidance systems that we have today, both on board and on the ground, as well as the escape maneuvers that are in place are as a direct result of this crash, Delta 191 at DFW, and a few others, the rules of engagement are always written in somebody else's blood as they say