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Posted on 7/9/22 at 12:37 pm to SantaFe
quote:Go on.
According to my ex-wife (women are always right)(no pics) I am responsible for that tragic crash. Her parents and her aunt and uncle were on that flight.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 1:02 pm to SantaFe
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According to my ex-wife (women are always right)(no pics) I am responsible for that tragic crash.
Were you the air traffic controller announcing "all clear for takeooff"?
Posted on 7/9/22 at 1:03 pm to Zephyrius
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Were you the air traffic controller announcing "all clear for takeooff"?
more like "traffic on a three mile final, expedite your takeoff"
Posted on 7/9/22 at 1:14 pm to andouille
I remember the day well. Was 12 years old. I lived in West Metairie maybe a mile from the site. My uncle owned a house on Hudson. His slab cracked from the impact and he was in litigation with Pan Am for years. My Dad was a fire fighter. With Third District Fire Dept.
I was outside with my friends when it happened. We heard the impact. I went home shortly after because of rain when my friend called and said that the Boom that we heard was a plane crash.
I was outside with my friends when it happened. We heard the impact. I went home shortly after because of rain when my friend called and said that the Boom that we heard was a plane crash.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 2:21 pm to Legion of Doom
Your dad's slab cracked because of ground subsidence, just like everyone else who lives in that filled in swamp. He was just trying to stick Pan Am with the bill.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 2:24 pm to White Roach
It was my Uncle. And maybe you are right-I was 12. What did I know.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 2:30 pm to Got Blaze
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Pan Am appealed this monetary decision, and the judge ruled each child would receive approximately $800,000. Granted this was in 1986, but I still thought it was chickenshite since these kids lost their mother and father at a very young age.
You think it’s chickenshit? Pan Am was a victim, too. And $800,000 in 1986 was enough to retire for life on $32,000 per year in 1986 money. I made $26,000 per year as an entry level engineer in 1985.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 5:48 pm to Penrod
How was Pan Am a victim, negligence by there employee, supposingly the pilot wanted his plane to arrive on time and was not worried about the weather.
Engineers always have to mention that they are engineers don’t they though.
Engineers always have to mention that they are engineers don’t they though.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 6:07 pm to Fontainebleau Dr.
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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.
I am friends with one of his daughters. He was at work at coke when saw it on news and raced home. He went on to start a new family eventually and has 3 kids now and doing well.
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Posted on 7/9/22 at 6:18 pm to RandySavage
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Man it only got 150 feet off the ground max and still everyone died? That's crazy
That's like a 15-story building, plus the plane was still traveling +100 mph.
That height plus that velocity plus that mass means A LOT of energy impacting the ground. Even if people didn't die immediately from the impact alone (which is highly unlikely), they certainly would have been knocked unconscious.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 6:22 pm to mtntiger
A wing struck the ground first. When the jet fuel ignites there's not much you can do. Some people survive if the plane lands on its belly and doesn't strike anything.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 6:27 pm to mtntiger
I don't really know the details of how the plane actually hit the ground but it seems like it would have hit relatively flat and skidded absorbing some of that impact rather than driving down into the ground.
Mainly though I just hate flying and always delude myself into think once it's descending/lower to the ground it's a lot safer and this crash is interfering with my delusion, ha.
Mainly though I just hate flying and always delude myself into think once it's descending/lower to the ground it's a lot safer and this crash is interfering with my delusion, ha.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 6:30 pm to RandySavage
The plane hit trees and buildings. A wing clipped the ground and ignited the jet fuel into an explosion. There wasn't much they could do.
People have survived crashes right after takeoff before. Like DL 1141 in 1988.
People have survived crashes right after takeoff before. Like DL 1141 in 1988.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 6:40 pm to RandySavage
Artists drawing of how the plane crashed, fuselage broken in half, and then skidded 4 blocks with a huge ball of explosion.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 6:45 pm to andouille
My aunt, a nurse, got called into EJ hospital as they were expecting a surge in local ERs. She said it was actually slow bc most affected were killed on site.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 8:37 pm to tigahbruh
Had a friend that lived on clay street. we went to the crash site at some point, don't remember if it was days or weeks later. I was shocked at the devastation, I don't think we said a word to each other on the way back to his house. Very sad.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 9:08 pm to andouille
I know a guy who was running late to catch that flight for a bachelor party in Vegas. He didn’t make the flight. What a lucky guy.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 9:37 pm to DownSouthJukin
Not long after that, another plane flew into a hotel at the end of the other runway. Local lore said the liner was empty of passengers. Apparently the trainer pulled back the throttle to fake a power loss and trainee could not recover
Posted on 7/9/22 at 9:45 pm to LSUFanHouston
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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.
Dr. Leigh Orf has a good talk/presentation on microbursts where he covers a good bit of Dr. Ted Fujita's research on them. It is a good talk if anyone is interested and goes into a bit of detail about how they impacted flights before Fujita discovered and named them. The first half is background and a bit of historical synopsis. The second half pertains to the impacts on modern structures and wind engineering.
LINK
This post was edited on 7/9/22 at 9:47 pm
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