Flight 191: Fourty Years Ago Last Month

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 05/27/2019 at 10:45 • Filed to: None

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Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/27/2019 at 10:55

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Interestingly when I was a child in the 1970's and 1980's we always refer  to the DC-10 as the plane that crashed and were much more enamored with Boeing offerings like the tri jet 727.

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/27/2019 at 10:58

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That flight also had a camera in the cockpit and was showing the view out the front during takeoff 

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/27/2019 at 11:06

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The first time I visited Chicago, back in 2006, my friend took me out to that location where AA191 crashed. We worked for the same airline ground handling company so we were both interested in anything commercial aviation related. Kinda eerie...

Only Vespas... > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/27/2019 at 11:21

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I do remember exactly where I was that day...

However the color shot in your spread is not AA191.  That is a Delta L1011 that went down a DFW in a wind shear event.  There were not many big pieces left of AA191.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/27/2019 at 11:21

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I’ve never seen those bw photos before. Chilling. This gets a short  write up in tomorrow’s TDIAH.

WilliamsSW > Only Vespas... 05/27/2019 at 12:32

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Funny I was thinking that picture didn’t belong.

Edit - I believe the DELTA flight was also 191. Flight 191 in general seems to be a bad luck number. 

f86sabre > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/27/2019 at 12:38

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That second event was of the tail section of DL 191 which encountered a microburst at DFW in landing. 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 05/27/2019 at 19:26

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I liked the 727. I also like the KC-10 Extender:

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > My X-type is too a real Jaguar 05/27/2019 at 19:26

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I remember that being reported.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Only Vespas... 05/27/2019 at 19:27

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I wondered about that and yes, that does look more like an L-1011. That’s what I get for using the Internet. :(

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 05/27/2019 at 19:28

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I had a L-1011 pic in the mix. Edited.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > f86sabre 05/27/2019 at 19:30

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Yes. I have deleted the picture, with apologies.

f86sabre > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/27/2019 at 19:31

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No apologies needed. It’s an interesting coincidence that the AA and DL events were both flight 191. 

facw > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 05/27/2019 at 21:24

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DC-10 did have sort of a rough start, with the cargo door failures early in its life, this one, and several other fatal accidents.

facw > My X-type is too a real Jaguar 05/27/2019 at 21:26

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Survivable storage has gotten so cheap it seems like all airliners probably should have cameras in the cockpit and looking down the aisle(s) as part of their black box set up. It wouldn’t be that expensive. Instead we still have planes flying around that can’t even record audio for the entire flight.

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > facw 05/27/2019 at 21:29

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The wheels of change move slowly in aviation. 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > f86sabre 05/27/2019 at 23:49

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Both three-engined wide bodies, too.