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9. It happened less than a week after I flew from Norfolk to L.A. via Chicago

Sat May 25, 2019, 05:19 PM

May 2019

I remember later on wondering if I had boarded that very plane on my last leg home on leave from the Navy.

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Forty years ago today, American Airlines Flight 191 crashed on takeoff [View all] mahatmakanejeeves May 2019 OP

Oh, I'm sorry. I hadn't seen your thread. mahatmakanejeeves May 2019 #3

No no! Please keep your OP going - I'll kick it Dennis Donovan May 2019 #4

I really appreciate the way you remember mahatmakanejeeves May 2019 #6

We're the DU Historians! Dennis Donovan May 2019 #7

No need for a special forum malaise May 2019 #12

There have been many stories murielm99 May 2019 #5

Kick, a horrible day... Dennis Donovan May 2019 #8

AA got lucky here in Jamaica almost ten years ago malaise May 2019 #14

I had a friend on that flight. A wonderful, kind man Dem2theMax May 2019 #10

+1 for Rodney BeyondGeography May 2019 #11

Thank you. Dem2theMax May 2019 #13

How sad malaise May 2019 #15

I know what you mean malaise May 2019 #17

I knew someone on that flight as well. smirkymonkey May 2019 #18