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smirkymonkey

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1. I knew someone on that flight.

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Sat May 25, 2019, 10:48 AM

May 2019

She was a beautiful young girl who was the girlfriend of my next door neighbor on her way to a job to work at Disneyland with a friend. She lived down the street from my grandmother. I was a young girl at the time, but it had a huge impact on me. I was horrified by it. I couldn't stop thinking about what her last terrifying moments would have been like. She was just about to begin her life and it was over in minutes.

That was the beginning of my horrible fear of flying and it has never gone away.

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40 Years Ago Today; American Airlines Flight 191 [View all] Dennis Donovan May 2019 OP

I knew someone on that flight. smirkymonkey May 2019 #1

Wow! malaise May 2019 #2

If I remember from my 1983 Aircraft Powerplants college course, there were only 3 engine bolts. TheBlackAdder May 2019 #5

The bolt didn't fail, it was the bracket that failed. NutmegYankee May 2019 #7

The pylon bracket itself failed because when the engine had been removed for maintenance The Velveteen Ocelot May 2019 #9

This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music May 2019 #3

My sister was a flight attendant on that route, by strange events, she was not on that flight. TheBlackAdder May 2019 #4

Wow. Amazing story all around. Efilroft Sul May 2019 #6

Talk about a weird twist of fate. 3catwoman3 May 2019 #8

Yes. She's struggled for a while. Incensed at the man who unknowingly set of a chain that saved her. TheBlackAdder May 2019 #11

"Now, she doesn't take shit from anybody." 3catwoman3 May 2019 #18

What a strange twist of fate. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2019 #10

She would tell me how she would get written up if she told someone to keep their hands off. TheBlackAdder May 2019 #12

I was on one of the last DC 10s to take off before they were grounded. redwitch May 2019 #13

I had a ticket on that flight. Chipper Chat May 2019 #14

Holy shit! Like Seth MacFarlane... Dennis Donovan May 2019 #16

I was in a drug store on King street that morning when I heard on the radio about a plane crash in Chipper Chat May 2019 #17

I was 14 then but remember it well. Horrible. book_worm May 2019 #15

I remember it well, too DFW May 2019 #19

Remembering Flight 191 mahatmakanejeeves May 2019 #20