Of course, I don't believe that for a minute, but you can't believe how many crew members did buy it. The legend was that he wasn't a malevolent of creepy ghost, but that he was "destined" to watch over that ship forever keeping all aboard safe(since it was his lack of attention to the screens and gauges which caused the accident. If you saw "The Ghost of Flight 401," you'll remember that Ernest Borgnine's face would mysteriously appear in the window of that oven following it being returned to the fleet post-crash. The lower galley was installed into one of our own L1011s, and F/As swore that they saw the face of the Flight Engineer/2nd Officer in the window of the #4 oven on several occasions. The particular aircraft(I used to know the ship number, but my memory isn't as good as it used to be)which crashed in the Everglades was parceled out in bits and pieces after being purchased by us. They were primarily used for parts, but a few of them actually continued to fly after refurbishment.
R46/23 When Eastern went out of business in 1990, DL purchased their crappy Tri Stars at bargain basement prices. As I said, there isn't a commercial pilot who doubts the explanation given by the NTSB.Ī good source for further info is Patrick Smith's "Ask the Pilot." Just as in the case of the mysterious "Chemtrails," once you understand the science/avionics behind it, there really s no mystery. Buy it or not, I just thought that with all the conspiracy theories floating out there in the ether, TWA 800 is one which is unworthy of another moment's thought. That's why, as tragic as crashes are, they are also the reason why air travel is so safe.
Of course that was unnecessary because, as in all post-crash scenarios, the FAA is nothing if not extremely quick and effective in requiring that changes be made immediately to all equipment. I remember for the following year, each flight I worked with an empty mid-tank gave me a serious case of the heebie jeebies. This phenomenon had occurred before, so it wasn't unprecedented. R42 It was a fuel tank explosion caused by faulty wiring which was exposed to fuel vapors in the mid tank. The crash of RW 706 prompted the US Armed Forces to agree both to reduce the number of military aircraft operating under visual flight rules in civilian air corridors, and to require military aircraft to obey civilian air traffic controllers. Only the radar intercept officer of the F-4B survived. Its pilot and all 49 passengers and crew aboard the civilian airliner died in the collision over the San Gabriel Mountains, near Duarte. Completing a cross-country flight, the F-4B Phantom was arriving from Naval Air Station Fallon in Nevada to land at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro near Irvine.
Marine Corps F-4B Phantom II over southern California.įlight 706 had departed Los Angeles just after 6 pm, en route to Seattle, with stopovers in Salt Lake City, Utah Boise, Idaho Lewiston, Idaho Pasco, Washington and Yakima, Washington. On Sunday, June 6, 1971, the Douglas DC-9-31 serving the flight collided in mid-air with a U.S. Hughes Airwest Flight 706 was a regularly scheduled flight operated by Hughes Airwest, from Los Angeles, California, to Seattle, Washington, with numerous intermediate stops. by AnonymousĬrash of the Day - J- Hughes Airwest Flight 706 I promise you that the GermanWings Alps crash of a few months ago gave birth to masses of black humor/jokes. Not that funny I know, but it gives you a bit of a glimpse into the black humor which we all have within the industry. So, after the UAL crash, it became the joke du jour to pull one of the engines off the little plastic Tristars and declare them a United DC 10. There always existed a bit of a inter-airline squabble as to which was the superior 3 engine widebody and Deltoids felt that we had the superior equipment. The L-10 was our version of the DC-10, which Delta chose not to buy due to a political favor intended to save Lockheed from bankruptcy. We had small L-1011s in those days aboard every aircraft to give the kids along with the pilot/stew wings. Like many professions, there exists a certain gallows humor within the field, which I believe is solely for the purpose of exorcising one's own fears about whatever disaster has just occurred. I was a very junior stew based out of ORD. R9-10 I was there that day waiting for my trip to begin.
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