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All fatal airplane crashes are tragic no matter what type of aircraft crashes. The crash that has made the biggest impact on me is PSA Flight 182. PSA was San Diego's hometown airliner and PSA was beloved not only by its customers but by its employees. When PSA crashed it crushed San Diego. Many people witnessed the plane coming down while it was on fire as well as the Cessna 172 spiraling down after it hit the PSA.
I saw a documentary of Tenerife, very chilling. The worst thing is that it sounds like the disaster could've easily been prevented with some better equipment
Those pictures of that flaming 727 are morbidly fascinating, to put it mildly. To know that there are people on that plane just seconds from death and probably looking helplessly out the window just really chills the soul.
they interviewed a man who had had decades of seeing and being at the aftermath of plane crashes but he said that "nothing, nothing, ever prepared me for this"(the 9/25/78 PSA plane crash)
The father of a child at my daughters school was on the flight, he wasn't a friend but I knew him to nod too and to pass the time at the school gates.... God knows what he was going through on the way down.
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The father of a child at my daughters school was on the flight, he wasn't a friend but I knew him to nod too and to pass the time at the school gates.... God knows what he was going through on the way down.
He probably didn't even know something was wrong before it hit the water.
I remember many plane crashes as if they were happening all the time, a few times each year maybe; at least it seemed that way because of how shocking the numerous deaths were each time.
I remember, the plane that crashed into the 14th street bridge and Potomac River; the plane that crashed on water near Hawaii like it was doing cartwheels; the crash near Pittsburgh into a mountain; the flight 182 crash into a San Diego neighborhood; the Concorde jet crash that was blamed on runway debris damage to a wheel; a crash in Chicago that was caught on camera going down on its side; the plane that crashed into the Andes mountains where survivors were found having resorted to cannibalism after weeks being lost; the crash into the Florida Everglades, the crash in November 2001 into a Queens, New York neighborhood; TWA 800; the Iranian passenger jet that was shot down by a US Navy ship in the Persian Gulf; a huge crash that happened on a runway where two very large planes collided as one was landing and crashed into the other; the Pam AM explosion over Lockerbie and the bodies and body parts of passengers landed on people's porches, balconies, everywhere; an incident where a fuselage suddenly cracked open and at least one crew member or passenger was sucked out of the fuselage midair; all four crashes on 9/11/2001; the France jet that disappeared into the sea near Brazil, and then another crash where the pilot was suicidal and crashed the plane... and probably many others I can't recall at the moment.
I often have recurring dreams of plane crashes, and at some point in high school, I remember visiting the NTSB where I was shown lots of video footage of plane crashes that they keep on file.
The word Tenerife doesn't come to mind at all, but if I do know of it then it's probably by another detail. But I'll learn about it.
The PSA crash is well remembered here. There's a transcription of the cockpit voice recorder available online. Last transmission just before impact, unidentified crew member. " Mom I love you." Tragic.
I recall many airline crashes but the closest I have been to a major crash was Pan Am Flight 759 that crashed at Kenner, Louisiana on July 9, 1982. All 146 people on board died as well as 8 people on the ground. I was living at Metairie at the time and was working at the New Orleans International Airport. Somewhere around here I still have the Time Picayune's newspaper for I believe the day after the crash.
For weeks after the crash, the parts of the airplane rested inside a hurricane fenced area near our office at the Airport. The odor was bad.
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