UPS MD-11 crash at SDF

[mikecweb]

Much different world these days than 30 years ago.

 

[DE727UPS]

He knew I was finishing up A/P school and told me he'd forward my short resume to the right people in Louisville but also said I'd have to move there for a while. I was young and dumb and I lived in SoCal and the thought of moving to Kentucky seemed like a horrible idea, was it a mistake on my part? Hard to say but my life would certainly be different today had I followed his advice.

Yeah, you gotta pay your dues on the MX side before you get the seniority to go someplace nice. ONT was pretty junior but not like SDF.

 

[knot4u]

Yeah, you gotta pay your dues on the MX side before you get the seniority to go someplace nice. ONT was pretty junior but not like SDF.

He was a New Yorker with the accent and a huge Islanders fan. How he ended up at KBUR I don't know but he did seem to know what he was doing so maybe when they opened that station they sent someone they knew was competent and capable to ensure everything would run smoothly. For all I know he might've been one of UPS MXs All Stars and he has a flag hanging from the rafters in their big MX hangar. Burbank is not a horrible place to live if you're getting paid to be there, I can think of other stations that would be much less attractive, including Ontario. Back then the entire area around Chino (Ontario adjacent) was still rural and smelled like cow crap.

 

[HeyEng]

My aunt was an FA for TWA from 1968-2000. She traded OUT of TWA 800. And it messed with her a lot. Not just survivors guilt, but the supreme confidence in things.

My Dad was a Connie FE for EAL way back in the day. He was scheduled to fly on EAL 642 but called out because his mother had died. The plane crashed and everyone perished. Fast forward 60 years and at almost 90 years old and he still had survivor's guilt.

 

[scooter2525]

Blue skies and tail winds brothers.