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TheBlackAdder

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

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #10)

Sat May 25, 2019, 01:17 PM

May 2019

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She was told, along with the others, to just laugh it off so as to not offend the man.

Yes. It was all men who did it--mostly business travelers.

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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