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re: Pan Am Flight 759 Crash
Posted on 5/18/24 at 12:08 pm to Sao
Posted on 5/18/24 at 12:08 pm to Sao
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Air Canada Flight 797
led to quite a few changes, the rules of engagement are always written in someone else's blood, as they say, smoke detectors in lavs, emergency exit lighting strips on the deck, and a maximum of one circuit breaker reset in flight by flight crews
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Posted on 5/18/24 at 12:08 pm to GeauxldMember
I will never forget , as a 5 yr old, watching Scooby Doo on the tv that summer afternoon, and the news breaking in to report the crash.. for months afterwards it seems like the crash is all you heard about on the local stations…. I learned the term “wind shear”……. Years later, i met a girl in college who’s home was destroyed and i believe she lost some family members .
Posted on 5/18/24 at 12:09 pm to LSURoss
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I would try and digitally sign these or put a watermark on them before someone right click saves and distributes.
Why?
Posted on 5/18/24 at 12:09 pm to jbgleason
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Those JP deputies. Jeans, cowboy boots and a uniform shirt and gun belt.
That is because it was at the tail end of the Urban Cowboy phenomenon and also because Sheriff Harry Lee, at that time, owned a club called the Hired Hand Saloon.. where they played both types of music, Country AND Western !
Posted on 5/18/24 at 12:10 pm to GeauxldMember
Wow
Posted on 5/18/24 at 12:13 pm to kywildcatfanone
I also remember that there was one baby who was rescued from the scene.. i want to say she was a Trahan, but not 100% sure.. she became a little bit of a local celebrity/curiosity, to the point where she would not do any interviews about the crash for a long time .
Posted on 5/18/24 at 12:16 pm to LSURoss
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I would try and digitally sign these or put a watermark on them before someone right click saves and distributes.
Posted on 5/18/24 at 12:19 pm to Czechessential
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led to quite a few changes, the rules of engagement are always written in someone else's blood, as they say, smoke detectors in lavs, emergency exit lighting strips on the deck, and a maximum of one circuit breaker reset in flight by flight crews
I've watched a couple of air disaster docs presenting that flight. Both seemed to point to electrical of course. It landed upright but the dead just couldn't move up the aisle in time like the survivors. The survivors said they tried to help but just couldn't.
Posted on 5/18/24 at 12:25 pm to Sao
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I've watched a couple of air disaster docs presenting that flight. Both seemed to point to electrical of course. It landed upright but the dead just couldn't move up the aisle in time like the survivors. The survivors said they tried to help but just couldn't.
the flush motor(fairly big electrical draw,) in the guilty lav kept tripping and the crew kept resetting it, resulting in a huge heat build up and eventually a huge fire, the cabin filled with smoke and many passengers died of smoke inhalation while searching for a way out, and to add fuel to the fire, so to speak, when exterior doors were opened after landing it introduced a big source of oxygen to the existing flame creating a fireball inside the cabin
This post was edited on 5/18/24 at 12:28 pm
Posted on 5/18/24 at 12:30 pm to GeauxldMember
Now, these days, meth heads would run off with the debris for scrap-cash before NTSB could even mobilize
Posted on 5/18/24 at 12:30 pm to GeauxldMember
I loosely know one of the attorneys that represented the victims. He was able to parlay that into the tobacco lawsuits and eventual settlements. Needless to say he made an incredible amount of money.
Posted on 5/18/24 at 12:34 pm to I20goon
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run off with the debris for scrap-cash before NTSB could even mobilize
that happened at the crash site of AA 965, but it was local injuns, not meth heads, crash was in the mountains, by the time rescue teams could get there, all of the luggage and bodies had been pilfered, including removal of gold teeth, a lot of metal from the plane missing, etc.
Posted on 5/18/24 at 12:45 pm to GeauxldMember
Remember this well. Summer before my 7th grade year. It rocked my hometown of Ponchatoula pretty hard. A much beloved teacher at St.Joseph’s Catholic School was on the flight headed for a vacation in Las Vegas. What they now call a microburst, they then called wind shear and is what slammed the plane into the ground.
Posted on 5/18/24 at 12:48 pm to Czechessential
You know, the crazy thing is that after the Canadian, the White's who were the heirs didn't get much or even expect it. There was some compensation in 83 but not generational wealth like given to plaintiffs today.
Posted on 5/18/24 at 12:57 pm to Sao
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There was some compensation in 83 but not generational wealth like given to plaintiffs today.
yeah, they were just a year or two early before the era of lottery winning lawsuit awards began, just a couple of years later people were suing because "it could have been be, fear of death" scenarios
Posted on 5/18/24 at 1:01 pm to notiger1997
777.
Posted on 5/18/24 at 1:03 pm to GeauxldMember
I remember this. I was entering 9th grade and had recently moved to Metairie.
Posted on 5/18/24 at 1:07 pm to Dixie2023
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had recently moved to Metairie.
You forgot the #humblebrag
Posted on 5/18/24 at 1:08 pm to BK Lounge
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You forgot the #humblebrag
probably old Metry too
Posted on 5/18/24 at 1:09 pm to GeauxldMember
One of my secretaries at LSU lost 7 members of her family on that flight - they were flying to attend the funeral of another relative in Vegas, including 1 or both of her parents. She was from Brusly as I recall.
Correction: Addis, LA - Fitzgerald family LINK
Correction: Addis, LA - Fitzgerald family LINK
This post was edited on 5/18/24 at 2:03 pm
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