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50 years ago tonight...the plane crash into the NOLA Airport Hilton
Posted on 3/30/17 at 2:13 pm
Posted on 3/30/17 at 2:13 pm
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Posted on 3/30/17 at 2:17 pm to EastBankTiger
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On board the Delta Air Line jet were five pilots and an inspector for the Federal Aviation Agency. All were killed when the plane fell sharply during a banking turn, sliced through two homes and cartwheeled into the multimillion-dollar motel.
Spewing fuel from the exploding craft set off an inferno near the section where the Wisconsin pupils were quartered.
"It spouted a sea of fuel right in those rooms where those eight kids were staying," said Capt. Marvin Leonard of the New Orleans Police Department.
"That's what killed them, not the impact from the wreckage. You could see where they took refuge in the shower stalls. One girl even took her purse with her. They turned on the water but it didn't do them any good."
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the first air tragedy here since February 1964 when 58 persons died in the crash of an Eastern Air Lines jet into Lake Pontchartrain.
Air travel in the 60s sounds like it SUCKED. Just a ho hum 68 "persons" dying only 3 years ago in another plane crash.
This post was edited on 3/30/17 at 2:24 pm
Posted on 3/30/17 at 2:19 pm to EastBankTiger
Wow.
I had always wondered if this had ever happened:
Guess so.
It's interesting just how many "major" air disasters there were in the 50s-70s and how infrequent they are today.
I had always wondered if this had ever happened:
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A Civil Aeronautics Board team arrived from Washington to investigate the crash, the first air tragedy here since February 1964 when 58 persons died in the crash of an Eastern Air Lines jet into Lake Pontchartrain
Guess so.
It's interesting just how many "major" air disasters there were in the 50s-70s and how infrequent they are today.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 2:19 pm to Mac
Several of my FIL's family were on that plane. He was supposed to be on it.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 2:26 pm to Sid in Lakeshore
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Several of my FIL's family were on that plane. He was supposed to be on it.
can y'all show on a map where this Hilton was and the house? Is there a graphic? I'm around the airport all the time and just curious.
I only knew about that major crash in 82.
Pan Am Flight 759
Posted on 3/30/17 at 2:28 pm to udtiger
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It's interesting just how many "major" air disasters there were in the 50s-70s and how infrequent they are today.
Right now is the safest stretch of air travel ever. And that's with a lot more commercial aircraft in the sky than back then.
I think 2016 was the safest or second safest year ever for air travel.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 2:28 pm to mikelbr
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I only knew about that major crash in 82
this is what i thought the OP was about but then i was like, i remember that one no way it was 50 years ago.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 2:30 pm to Mac
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"It spouted a sea of fuel right in those rooms where those eight kids were staying," said Capt. Marvin Leonard of the New Orleans Police Department.
"That's what killed them, not the impact from the wreckage. You could see where they took refuge in the shower stalls. One girl even took her purse with her. They turned on the water but it didn't do them any good."
fuuuuckkkk !
Posted on 3/30/17 at 2:38 pm to EastBankTiger
I was 12 when this happened. The one thing that I remember is that Delta offered to fly them home, and they declined.
They went back home on the Panama Limited on the Illinois Central Railroad. I heard that people from McComb went to the train station with food and presents for the survivors that they handed over when the train made its regular stop in McComb. The other passenger train that went from New Orleans to Chicago was The City of New Orleans that was famous from the Arlo Guthrie song.
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The remaining 23 students and their advisors arranged to leave by train Thursday for home.
They went back home on the Panama Limited on the Illinois Central Railroad. I heard that people from McComb went to the train station with food and presents for the survivors that they handed over when the train made its regular stop in McComb. The other passenger train that went from New Orleans to Chicago was The City of New Orleans that was famous from the Arlo Guthrie song.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 2:39 pm to MorbidTheClown
I just read about the Crash into Pontchartrain. Jeezus. I listened to that singer too. Morbid. Tragic. Read that guy's quote about losing his dad at that age.
50 yrs after Eastern Airlines Crash
50 yrs after Eastern Airlines Crash
Posted on 3/30/17 at 2:41 pm to EastBankTiger
Commercial plane crashes were pretty much a regular thing until the mid 90s
Posted on 3/30/17 at 2:50 pm to mikelbr
God damn. Why did you start this thread? I have family that lives 4 blocks away from this accident. They didn't back then obviously. Crazy.
1982 Pan Am Crash
1982 Pan Am Crash
Posted on 3/30/17 at 2:52 pm to mikelbr
yeah, i remember hearing about this on the radio at work. One of the guys i worked with lived in kenner at the time... he ran out of the building , jumped in his car and hauled arse. didn't know til the next day why.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 2:52 pm to EastBankTiger
I was not aware of this event. Never heard anything about it. I remember the 82 crash.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 3:00 pm to mikelbr
can y'all show on a map where this Hilton was and the house? Is there a graphic? I'm around the airport all the time and just curious.
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It was right across Airline Hwy, a little to the west of the end on the north/south runway.
That area is mostly off site parking now, but it wasn't back then.
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It was right across Airline Hwy, a little to the west of the end on the north/south runway.
That area is mostly off site parking now, but it wasn't back then.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 3:01 pm to mikelbr
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can y'all show on a map where this Hilton was and the house? Is there a graphic? I'm around the airport all the time and just curious.
All I can find is this..
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The jet first hit electrical wires and a tree before plowing through the roof of Truman Skaggs' home at 618 Worth Street in Kenner, behind and to the left of the hotel. It then hit the Whittington home at 623 Worth Street, killing Mrs. Shelly Whittington and her 13 year-old son Shelly Clarence Whittington Jr. Mr. Whittington was blown from the home and survived. The jet then hit a railroad embankment and exploded. Fuel engulfed the main entrance of rear wing and a maintenance building of the Hilton Inn on Airline Highway, across from the New Orleans International Airport, at approximately 12:51 a.m.
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The DC-8 had just taken off from New Orleans runway 28 and was in the process of executing a simulated two-engine out landing approach to runway 01 when the aircraft lost control. The DC-8 crashed into a residential area, destroying several homes and a motel complex. The plane came down some 2300ft short of the runway."
Sounds like where the cell phone lot is now.
This post was edited on 3/30/17 at 3:04 pm
Posted on 3/30/17 at 3:02 pm to White Roach
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It was right across Airline Hwy, a little to the west of the end on the north/south runway.
That area is mostly off site parking now, but it wasn't back then.
Ah thanks.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 3:03 pm to Loungefly85
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simulated two-engine out landing approach
they did this with passengers on board?
Posted on 3/30/17 at 3:05 pm to MorbidTheClown
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they did this with passengers on board?
Just 6 people. All FAA officials. No civies or anything.
It was middle of the night.
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