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OTD - July 9, 1982 - PanAm Flight 759 crashes just after takeoff from MSY
Posted on 7/9/25 at 11:44 am
Posted on 7/9/25 at 11:44 am
153 people died after the plane slammed into a Kenner neighborhood shortly after taking off from New Orleans International Airport
This crash was 1 of the reasons a push was made to learn all about microbursts in thunderstorms as that was deemed the reason for the crash
This crash was 1 of the reasons a push was made to learn all about microbursts in thunderstorms as that was deemed the reason for the crash
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Posted on 7/9/25 at 11:45 am to rt3
If I remember correctly, 777Tiger was in line to take off and witnessed it.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 11:48 am to rt3
If you're a weather geek and have time to kill, this presentation by Dr. Leigh Orf about downbursts/microbursts is a good one. He talks some about Dr. Fajita's original study of them, which much of our modern research is based on. Orf has even used supercomputers to model the storms responsible for them and talks about some it it here.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 11:51 am to rt3
Nash Roberts on tv telling everyone the reason for the crash less than an hour after it happened.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 11:55 am to rt3
A guy I went to high school with parents were on that plane... He was a grade below me and it was so shocking that someone would lose their parents in a blink of an eye.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 12:04 pm to rt3
My aunt and uncle lived down the street from the crash and I remember them saying how bad the smell of human flesh was
Posted on 7/9/25 at 12:09 pm to rt3
I worked with a lady whose family lived in the affected neighborhood, and had some deaths.
But if you live in the NOLA area long enough you’ll find out you have some “2 degrees of separation” knowledge from that event.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 12:16 pm to TheHarahanian
My aunt and uncle were directly under a microburst 3 or 4 years ago. They and their two neighbors (one more or less next door and the other across the road) lost a combined 120+ trees. Just in the yard area my aunt and uncle lost a dozen or so trees, only one of which clipped the tip of their roof and took out part of a deck.
Right over them there was very little rain. The ground wasnt even wet when my uncle got home maybe 20 minutes after it happened and found their driveway completely blocked by downed trees with no explanation. I happened to look at the radar shortly after and got a loop of it saved somewhere. The crazy thing was that not even a quarter mile down the road in either direction it looked like nothing had happened. It was wild.
Right over them there was very little rain. The ground wasnt even wet when my uncle got home maybe 20 minutes after it happened and found their driveway completely blocked by downed trees with no explanation. I happened to look at the radar shortly after and got a loop of it saved somewhere. The crazy thing was that not even a quarter mile down the road in either direction it looked like nothing had happened. It was wild.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 12:24 pm to rt3
Was a teen at that time. I remember that crash.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 1:29 pm to rt3
Remember that well. Took off from MSY this morning not knowing it was tha anniversary. Think about it every time I fly fom there
Posted on 7/9/25 at 1:36 pm to Dixie2023
Was at son's bb game in Metarie. Remember the beepers going off for med folks in stands. Smoke rising over Kenner. Also the police having to club a guy running from scene with arm having a watch on it.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 2:00 pm to rt3
A guy I know, his dad's whole family was killed when the plane hit their house.
He remarried and had another family, but my friend told me his dad was still fricked up from the accident, and was overly protective of his kids.
He remarried and had another family, but my friend told me his dad was still fricked up from the accident, and was overly protective of his kids.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 2:00 pm to JustDooIt
Wow. You definitely won’t forget that day. I died the media never mentioned that guy bc this is 1st I’ve heard. I do know someone whose parents live in that neighborhood but got super lucky.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 2:03 pm to rt3
I was about a year old when it happened but my family always talked about it
Plus our lady of perpetual help in Kenner has the memorial and we went to Mass there sometimes
Plus our lady of perpetual help in Kenner has the memorial and we went to Mass there sometimes
Posted on 7/9/25 at 2:05 pm to JustDooIt
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Also the police having to club a guy running from scene with arm having a watch on it.
Wait, what?
Posted on 7/9/25 at 2:11 pm to JustDooIt
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police having to club a guy running from scene with arm having a watch on it.
Jesus.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 2:14 pm to rt3
I was almost directly underneath that news helicopter. It was hovering over a parking lot on Veterans Boulevard for a shopping center across from the intersection with Downs Blvd, which became the entrance to Lafreniere Park. I had just gotten hired at the Godfather's Pizza that was in the back of the shopping center by Pheidippides, the runner's shoe store. There was an electronics shop that had TVs and I saw the news shot from the helicopter on the TVs.
It had rained super hard. There was a smell of fuel and smoke in the air. I was friends with two families who lived on Fairway but it didn't hit their houses.
It had rained super hard. There was a smell of fuel and smoke in the air. I was friends with two families who lived on Fairway but it didn't hit their houses.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 2:20 pm to rt3
Bill Elder = GOAT NOLA TV news personality and it ain’t close!!!
Posted on 7/9/25 at 2:28 pm to rt3
Not super far from where my cousin lived at the time - like 4 to 5 streets. I'm sure lots here knew somebody similarly situated.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 2:33 pm to rt3
I was running a tugboat that day about 25 air miles away from MSY.
We weren’t supposed to have a TV on in the wheelhouse but that day we did.
It was clear and dry where we were.
Sad, tragic day.
We weren’t supposed to have a TV on in the wheelhouse but that day we did.
It was clear and dry where we were.
Sad, tragic day.
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