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re: 40 years ago today, July 9, 1982, Pan Am flight 759 crashed
Posted on 7/9/22 at 8:55 am to When in Rome
Posted on 7/9/22 at 8:55 am to When in Rome
I dont think that's accurate. There was a guy who was at work and his wife and one of his daughters was killed. The other daughter was found in her crib alive.
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Posted on 7/9/22 at 9:05 am to When in Rome
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quote:A co-worker of mine told me a story that he knew a man who had left his house to run a quick errand. While he was away from the house he lost his wife and kids, including a newborn. He had to stay with people for quite some time to keep himself from committing suicide.tbh I don’t see how I could go on with life if I suddenly lost my whole family like this
Idk if it’s the same guy, but I know a girl here in NO whose father lost his wife and kids during this (on the ground ) and since remarried and had her. She posts about it every year on the anniversary.
I just looked at it and it’s got to be the same guy. He was at work, wife and three kids.
This post was edited on 7/9/22 at 9:10 am
Posted on 7/9/22 at 9:15 am to andouille
I remember hearing that the parents of a guy I was in high school with were on that plane.. That was the first time I knew someone that lost a parent let alone both of them. I felt bad for him and it also reminded me that my parents would some day die..
Posted on 7/9/22 at 9:19 am to Zephyrius
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ETA: I don't think the phrase "wind shear" has ever been talked about more outside of a tropical system discussion in my entire life for reporting on that Pan Am investigation
If you look at the news footage of the day, most people immediately speculated that lightning must have hit the plane.
Except Nash Roberts. Pretty much immediately, he said, you know, there’s this thing that we don’t really know a lot about. It’s called a microburst.. And it takes a very unique set of circumstances to occur and doesn’t last long, but this looks like it could be it.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 9:31 am to GeorgeTheGreek
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I don’t mind the flying. It’s the crashing I don’t like.
How do you know? Have you ever tried it?
Posted on 7/9/22 at 9:36 am to andouille
This taught me to never buy stock in airline companies.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 9:55 am to Joehat
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Wife and I are best friends with the miracle baby who survived the wreckage. She’s a great person now, and has a daughter of her own. She lost her mother and her sister that day
Haven’t seen her in a while but I know missy quite well
Posted on 7/9/22 at 9:55 am to andouille
People were so stupid back then. You think someone would have realized you shouldn’t fly into a rain shaft of a thunderstorm before it took multiple planes crashes to consider not doing that.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 10:04 am to andouille
There was a guy here in Baton Rouge who didn't get on the flight at the last minute to go to a family member's funeral in Vegas. He lost his ENTIRE family.. Grandparents, parents aunts uncles, brothers and sisters. I heard he just left town for a very long period because he couldn't handle the enormity of burying everyone. Not sure of all the details but that is the gyst if it.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 10:06 am to Jake88
quote:That is what Wikipedia says happened.
I dont think that's accurate. There was a guy who was at work and his wife and one of his daughters was killed. The other daughter was found in her crib alive.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 10:08 am to andouille
Terrible.
Was one degree separated from a couple of folks who died.
I was out in Lake Ponchartrain (by the Northshore) when it happened.
We had been keeping an eye on the local thunderstorm on the South shore.
Had a TV onboard, Bill Elder was a good newsman.
Earned his money that day.
Sad day.
Was one degree separated from a couple of folks who died.
I was out in Lake Ponchartrain (by the Northshore) when it happened.
We had been keeping an eye on the local thunderstorm on the South shore.
Had a TV onboard, Bill Elder was a good newsman.
Earned his money that day.
Sad day.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 10:11 am to LSUFanHouston
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. It’s called a microburst..
Delta flight 191 went down in 1985 with the same issue.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 10:16 am to The Third Leg
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Freak accident, like most plane crashes. What’s more terrifying—and exponentially more likely—is that you could be driving the speed limit after work and some alcoholic loser hits you going 80mph and kills you.
Or some a-hole texting or playing on their phone
Much more likely to happen than a plane crash
Posted on 7/9/22 at 10:17 am to p&g
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Much more likely to happen than a plane crash
Sudden death doesn't bother me much, falling from 30,000 feet terrifies me.
I don't mind takeoff and landing.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 10:18 am to andouille
Horrible. We had been married a couple of years and lived in Bucktown then. A friend from high school was employed by several departments and coroners as a photographer. Pretty sure it made him quit and do weddings and portraits. An EMT I knew quit and a lot of first responders got involved with the psychological services personnel provided them. 
Posted on 7/9/22 at 10:18 am to andouille
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154 killed, including 8 on the ground. I lost two friends that afternoon, going to Vegas for the weekend. I was about 1.5 miles north of the airport, it was raining very hard, I heard a muffled boom and saw a lot of smoke. I didn't find out until the next morning that my friends were on that plane.
I was in position on runway 10 next to go, I can be heard/read on the cvr/atc recording/transcript
Posted on 7/9/22 at 10:31 am to 777Tiger
quote:Did you or anyone you worked with have a bad gut feeling about the weather that day?
I was in position on runway 10 next to go, I can be heard/read on the cvr/atc recording/transcript
Posted on 7/9/22 at 10:32 am to Napoleon
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There was this and then another crash in Dallas caused by microbutsts that now most airports have weather stations to predict these weather phenomenon.
Delta 191. That was the crash that brought about onboard wind shear detection. Big plus for airline safety.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 10:37 am to When in Rome
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Did you or anyone you worked with have a bad gut feeling about the weather that day?
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
Posted on 7/9/22 at 10:43 am to 777Tiger
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we weren't planning on taking off
When you turned back or got turned back did you know about the crash? Is that something you’d tell your passengers in that situation? Always curious about that.
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