Air India plane crash

[ZapBrannigan]

I'm one enough to remember when Mutual of Omaha sold flight insurance from kiosks at the airport.

 

[mikecweb]

My autism can not comprehend this. I was on airdisasters.com reading reports in the mid 90s as like a 7 year old because I wanted to be a pilot and didn't want to die doing that. Lol

And then a horse walked up to a 172....

 

[Wardogg]

Relevant non event??


View: https://youtu.be/wh_a0-gkgME?si=Bj5GQzBjUTGJO73X

 

[MikeD]

I'm one enough to remember when Mutual of Omaha sold flight insurance from kiosks at the airport.

Marlin Perkins on Wild Kingdom was always on tv at home when I was young.

 

[A150K]

I forgot that place existed!

Thats where I started off in 2003 at the age of 12. How I now picture the average poster over there:

 

[Roger Roger]

Thats where I started off in 2003 at the age of 12. How I now picture the average poster over there:

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The sword of a thousand truths in the hands of a noob?

 

[///AMG]

My autism can not comprehend this. I was on airdisasters.com reading reports in the mid 90s as like a 7 year old because I wanted to be a pilot and didn't want to die doing that. Lol

I remember reading a Readers Digest either on the plane, or right before a family trip in the late 80's/early 1990s. It covered that crash at Stapleton where I think they forgot to set takeoff flaps (or maybe it was icing?)....727 if I remember correctly. The survivor accounts mentioned a huge fireball sweeping through the cabin from front to back right after impact. I remember being a little nervous boarding that particular 727.

 

[Roger Roger]

The crashes I remember from growing up were TWA800 and Valujet. Which now that I look it up were both in the same year.

 

[ASpilot2be]

The crashes I remember from growing up were TWA800 and Valujet. Which now that I look it up were both in the same year.

Growing up in Haines, I remember too many.

 

[Roger Roger]

Growing up in Haines, I remember too many.

Yeah, you were growing up in the bad old days of 135. Especially LAB

 

[arkflyr]

Yeah, you were growing up in the bad old days of 135. Especially LAB

Limbs Arms and Body parts? I have some friends that cut their teeth there in the 90s, holy cow the stories!

 

[Boris Badenov]

Marlin Perkins on Wild Kingdom was always on tv at home when I was young.

Mutual of Omaha would have my business if I didn't already have a company plan. What a great thing.

 

[ChasenSFO]

And then a horse walked up to a 172....

It's still do it or die trying. But my money is spoken for currently.

 

[Roger Roger]

Limbs Arms and Body parts? I have some friends that cut their teeth there in the 90s, holy cow the stories!

The very same!

 

[ERfly]

USAir alone had five fatal accidents in five years in the early 90s.

And that's why we all have TEM now!

It was referred to as "The Five in Five" when I went through training.

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

The crashes I remember from growing up were TWA800 and Valujet. Which now that I look it up were both in the same year.

JFK had almost annual crash departures.

1996 TWA
1998 Swissair
1999 Egypt Air
2001 AA 587

 

[ERfly]

I remember reading a Readers Digest either on the plane, or right before a family trip in the late 80's/early 1990s. It covered that crash at Stapleton where I think they forgot to set takeoff flaps (or maybe it was icing?)....727 if I remember correctly. The survivor accounts mentioned a huge fireball sweeping through the cabin from front to back right after impact. I remember being a little nervous boarding that particular 727.

It was a DC-9, but yeah, that one was bad.

Delta was the 727 without the flaps in DFW and that's why we have Sterile Cockpit...which we ALL follow, but only one will come along shortly to tell us how he's the best at it.

 

[derg]

And that wasn’t even the first KAL Boeing jet the Soviet’s shot down!

Korean Air Lines Flight 902 - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Correct.

Which is why, also, I found it morbidly curious when some on the site said that the Russians would NEVER shoot down a civilian airliner, they’re our friends.

 

[Skåning]

I found it morbidly curious when some on the site said that the Russians would NEVER shoot down a civilian airliner

I mean MH17 wasnt that long ago #eyeroll

 

[arkavgal]

I remember AA 1420 because it happened on my home turf. I was in junior high at the time. Aside from TWA 800, the crash I seem to recall the most was Swissair 111. What a terrifying sequence of events. Stuff of horrors.

Through the 80s and 90s, there were at least 3-4 121 accidents with fatalities almost every year in the US. It's amazing how much safer commercial flying has become.