Boeing 747 Breaks Up Just After Takeoff | Falling Apart Over New York (With Real Audio)
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- Опубліковано 21 лис 2024
- A Boeing 747 operating as TWA Flight 800 takes off from New York JFK Airport on a routine flight to Paris, France. However, 12 minutes after liftoff, the aircraft explodes in mid-air and crashes into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York. Find out what really happened.
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Here’s the story of TWA flight 800, one of the saddest 747 crash in aviation’s history. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who have lost their loved ones on board N93119. ❤
your videos are great thank you
So sad. 😞❤️
Thanks for yr great channels which indeed is resourceful. 👍
This was one of the first conspiracies that really became a thing online.
Could you make JAL Flight 123?
My best friend, Jamie Silverman, 15, was on the plane with her family. I have suffered emotional anguish every day since the accident. It never goes away.
So very sorry for the loss of your friend and her family. May everyone on that flight rest in peace.
@@beadbird More like rest in pieces !
@@gertjanvandermeij4265 Don't cut yourself on that edge.
Please do as I say, ask God to heal your broken heart and He will. God healed mine in 2008.
@@gertjanvandermeij4265 somebody's desperate for attention.
My high school teacher was on that flight. She was so excited for this trip to Paris. It breaks my heart that she died in this manner. I will never forget her.
So sorry for your loss, this is so sad😟
So Sorry. 😢😮😱 That's Terrible. Lord have mercy.
I wonder if the pilots tried to save the flight, not knowing that the nose had been separated from the rest of the airplane. I wonder if any of the passengers knew what had just happened to them as they climbed upwards before started falling back down.
My condolences. 😢💔
@@User-jr7vfare you stupid?. The cabin broke off with the pilots inside!. They were spinning uncontrollably towards the sea. What were they going to do?. As for the passengers, I'm sure that the fireball cemented their fate. There's always one idiotic comment on here.
In remembrance:
Captain Ralph George Kevorkian, 58
First Officer Steven Edward Snyder, 57
Flight Engineer Richard Gordon Campbell, 63
Flight Engineer Oliver Krick, 25
Flight Attendant Dan J. Callas, 22
Flight Attendant Jacques Charbonnier, 65
Flight Attendant Constance B. Charbonnier, 49
Flight Attendant Janet Louise Wolf Christopher, 47
Flight Attendant Debra Collins DiLuccio, 47
Flight Attendant Arlene Ellen Johnsen, 60
Flight Attendant Raymond A. Lang, 51
Flight Attendant Maureen Lockhart, 49
Flight Attendant Sandra Jean Meade, 42
Flight Attendant Grace Melotin, 48
Flight Attendant Marit E. Rhoads, 48
Flight Attendant Mike Schuldt, 51
Flight Attendant Melinda Diane Wright Torche, 46
Flight Attendant Jill Ziemkiewicz, 24
Sandra Aikens-Bellamy, 49
Jessica Aikey, 17
Christian Alex
Matthew Alexander, 20
Otis Lamar Allen, 49
Ashton Lamar Allen, 16
Svein Amlund
Jule “Jay” Edward Anderson, 49
Patricia Ann Marion Anderson, 41
Seana Anderson, 27
David Alfred Babb, 13
Daniel Baszczewski, 18
Charles R. Beatty, 49
Myriam Bellazoug, 30
Arthur Benjamin, 58
Joan Evelyn Bauer Benjamin, 56
Line Berthe
Maurice Berthe
Nicolas Bluestone, 18
Michelle Bohlin, 15
Luc Yvon Bossuyt, 52
Leonie Bouhs
Jordan Michael Bower, 17
Rosemary Braman-Mosberg, 47
Michel Breistroff, 25
Edwin B. Brooks Sr., 82
Ruth D. Brooks, 79
Mirko Buttaroni, 26
Monica Omiccioli Buttaroni, 23
Anthony Caillaud
Daniel Caillaud
Joseph Arthur “Jay” Carven, 9
Paula Ann Carven, 42
Jacques Cayrol
Jenny Chaillou
Ludovic Chanson, 12
Monique Chemtob
Constance Coiner, 48
Ana Duarte Coiner, 12
Monica Eileen Cox, 16
Pamela Lee Crandell, 29
Daniel Creamades
Marcel Dadi, 44
Anna D' Alessandro
Francois Darley
Cybele Deboisredon
Sylvain Delange, 35
Judith Delouvrier, 48
Dominiques D’Huimieres
Deborah Ann Lorson Dickey, 41
Douglas Clair Dickey, 47
Christine Bailey D'Iorio
Peitro D'Iorio
Warren Dodge, 47
Guy Dupont
Larkyn Dwyer, 11
Daryl K. Edwards, 41
Marie Ellison, 67
Clara Jean Ersoz, 59
Namik Ersoz, 63
Douglas Alan Eshleman, 35
Alexandre Estival
Dierdre Mairead Feeney, 16
Vera Feeney, 52, Kilmore
Mohammed Samir Ferrat
Richard “Rod” Foster, 61
Didier Foulon
Carol Ann Schelb Fry, 54
Rosaria Pares Furlano
Daniel Gabor, 27
Daniel Gaetke, 32
Stephanie Lynn Thomas Gaetke, 32
Claire Aldona Gallagher, 15
Jean Paul Galland
Clair Gasq
Francis Gasq
Donald Ellis Gough, 56
Steven K. Graham, 39
Charles Henry Gray III, 47
Renee Greene
Donna Griffith, 36
Joanne S. Griffith, 39
Julia Danielle Grimm, 15
Cyril Grivet
Anne Gustin
Beverly Hammer, 58
Tracy Anne Hammer, 28
Lars Hansen
Eric Harkness, 23
Lawrence Harris
Ghassan Haurani, 50
Nina Haurani, 53
Sandra Hazelton
Rance Hettler, 18
Susan Hill, 44
Jean-Pierre Hochard
David Hogan, 47
Virginia Pelaez Holst, 31
Eric B. Holst, 32
James Hull, 45
James H. Hurd III, 29
Lonnie Ingenhuett, 43
Benoit Jacquemot
Susanne Jensen, 31
Courtney Johns, 18
Eleanor Johnson, 50
Jed Johnson, 47
Leonard Johnson, 53
Romana Jones, 64
Amanda Marie Karschner, 17
Margot Krikhan, 51
Andrew Krukar, 40
Barbara Kwan, 40
Patricia Kwiat, 20
Kimberly Kwiat, 26
Jane Elizabeth Reardon Labys, 52
Antoine Lacailledesse
Alain LaForge
Yvon Lamour
Ana Leim
Elaine K. Loffredo, 50
Jody Lee Loudenslager, 17
Britta Lohan
Patricia S. Y. Loo, 55
Dalila Lucien, 17
Elias Luevano, 42
Katherine Elizabeth “Katie” Lychner, 8
Pamela Rogers Lychner, 37
Shannon Evian Lychner, 10
Francois Manchuelle, 43
Etienne Maresq
Nicolas Maresq
Betty Ruth Martin, 69
Salvator Mazzola, 36
Pamela Cobb McPherson, 45
Giuseppe Mercurio, 26
Rodolphe Mérieux, 27
Avishaim Meshulam, 32
Pascal Michel
Amy Carole Siekerman Miller, 29
Elizabeth Miller, 50
Gideon Beiler Miller, 57
Joan Williams Miller, 60
Kyle Miller, 29
Robert Miller, 62
Angela Jean Murta, 53
Alecia Carlos Nelson, 45
Twyla Nelson, 8
Cheryl Nibert, 17
Gadi Notes, 29
Caitlin Marie O'Hara
Janet O'Hara, 39
John O'Hara, 39
Rebecca Jane Olsen, 20
Alan Orman, 49
Elsie Ostachiewicz, 49
Chelsie Ostachiewicz, 8
Huguette Paquet
Ingrid Paquet
Serge Pares, 29
Judy Ellen Penzer, 48
Marion Ott Percy, 77
Dennis Price, 49
Peggy Price, 49
Brenda Kay Graham Privette, 46
Rico Puhlmann, 62
Elizabeth Puichaud
Jacqueline Remy
Clyde Kirk Rhein Jr., 43
Scott Rhoads, 48
Brent Richey, 26
Annelyse Richter
Noemie Richter
Celine Rio
Kimberly Rogers, 17
Yonaton Michael Rojany, 19
Barbara Romagna, 76
Katrina M. Rose, 26
Judith Kathryn Rissel Rupert, 53
Barbara Scott, 39
Joseph Scott, 13
Michael Scott, 44
Michelle Seaman, 19
Anna Maria Shorter, 47
Brenna Rae Siebert, 25
Chrisha Louise Siebert, 28
Candace Silverman, 22
Etta Silverman, 53
Eugene Silverman, 54
Jamie Silverman
Olivia Simmons, 50
Kristina Skjold
William R Story, 51
Carnie Straus
Lydie Teang
Rachama-Chan Teang
Josette Thiery
Mauro Tofani, 46
Larissa Uzupis, 15
Lois Rose VanEpps, 58
Rick L Verhaeghe, 48
Lani Warren, 48
Jacqueline Alexis Watson, 18
Jill VictoriaWatson, 32
Thomas Ralph Weatherby III, 13
Monica Michelle Weaver, 16
Ruben Windmiller, 66
Eleanor Veronica Manganiello Wolfson, 51
Wendy Yvonne Wolfson, 16
Bonnie Wolters, 44
Judith Yee, 53
Jean-Jacque Zara, 59
Very thoughtful, for your part.
This is the terrible thing about plane crashes. There are usually couples, brothers and sisters, entire families simply wiped out. And the ages have a wide range. Here the oldest is 82, while there are three 8 year olds. Truly tragic.
Thank you for writing out this list.
Thank you🙏
May they all rest in peace🙏
Jed Johnson was Andy Warhol's boyfriend.
I knew and flew with that entire crew
I had flown with the Captain not long before 😢❤️✈️
I will never get over losing my colleagues and all of the passengers🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Prayers for All. 🙏
Prove it
There are no words to describe this heart breaking loss of life, hugs.
I'm sorry for your loss and the whole TWA family. My dad was a TWA captain. He started with them in 1954 and stayed until they were swallowed up by American. My dad was George Anton. Did you know him?
🧢🧢🧢🧢
In 1988, my future wife was a 20 year old student who'd missed her flight out of Europe for home. That flight happened to be the Lockerbie 747. Whenever I see anything that has to do with aircraft disaster, I think about how blind fortune allowed me to marry a wonderful woman and have two amazing young men as sons. And my heart aches for those who perished.
Sorry, I can't help myself. But you are a grown man with grown men for sons and THAT'S your UA-cam name?
@@surindersingh724 😂😂I had to take another look at his user name......
@@surindersingh724 Indeed. I am Mike and I'm extremely moist - Never ferget!
Grown and moist, I like it
Blind fortune? God's will.
"I think that was him."
"I think so."
"God bless him."
Those words are painful to listen to... the realisation that they've just witnessed a catastrophic accident, but they still have a job to do.
I grew up in NY and remember that radio chatter specifically, very chilling. They don’t know who that was? How is that possible?
No accident.
It was a missile.
@@u2mister17 you are correct.
@@donnamariedavidson5065 PBS had a special, before the curtain was dropped, that aired with the original government agencies and the first thing they said when they sat down was, " We know it was a missile but was there a second missile?"
So much BS from our masters.
Look into who the passengers were that day and you will find out why they were shot down.
What really gets me about this crash is how you can hear the other pilots in the area rallying together and doing their utmost to give information to the ATC. Truly professional. While they were sadly unable to save any lives that day, they still did their best in making sure the wreckage was located as quickly as possible. And that "God bless him" from what I presume to be the Eastern pilot was just heartbreaking. Can't help but hear the defeat in the poor guy's voice, even if there was nothing more he could do.
nothing more to add
Beautifully expressed. It was another sad moment in the event.
I was left speechless! what a tragic event and to hear the pilot from the other aircraft say "God Bless him" broke my heart 💔 as this was for real. RIP all 230 souls.
I agree my friend...
Indeed...I agree. So sad the loss of life and I'm sure the other pilots empathize and agonized over seeing that crash.
I was chief cabin crew on Alitalia 609, was taking drinks to the captain and SFO at the time and saw the debris floating. As crew our hearts went out to our colleagues at TWA plus all those involved. Said a silent prayer as we flew over.
I live where it happened, every time I go to the beach we have a moment of silence at the memories. It has the flags of all of the nationalities of passengers o nthat plane.
🧢
This is a absolute true story, I was leaving for basic in the Army and had a layover on this exact day, of course my flight was delayed, I walked right by TWA ticket counter and lounge area and saw everyone of these people getting ready to board, I left about half hour later only to learn the sad truth, wow I can still see there faces,there was a mom with two daughters there I’ll never forget them I don’t know why that family sticks in my mind but knowing how they suffered, Jesus I couldn’t imagine today losing my sons that way and my wife, I pray for the families everyday, again a great video
Pam Lychner and her two daughters?
Both precious little girls had blond hair, mom was absolutely beautiful, that’s why I remember them, such a beautiful family
Was that them I’ve watched documentaries but could never be certain
I'm sure everybody died very quickly given how the fire went right through the plane so I expect everyone was dead long before the plane impacted
I'm so sorry 😞 I can imagine that is very hard to this day. Their souls, I'm sure, thank you for thinking of them still ❤️
I was a flight attendant for TWA in 1996 when this happened. I was home when my bonus daughter came out of her room practically screaming that a TWA plane had gone down. I went to the TV instantly and saw the images of fire on the water where the plane had impacted. My heart sank further than it ever had in my life to that point, knowing I'd lost several brothers and sisters in that tragedy. When you work for an airline, you really do become part of a family, and you mourn their loss as if it was your own. Still hard to think about that day every year, even 26 years later. 😭💔
What does bonus daughter mean?
@@houseofsolomon2440 I wondered the same thing.
@@houseofsolomon2440 Same
@@houseofsolomon2440 Step?
I was in the army stationed at Fort Stewart, GA. We were a rapid deployment base and we were immediately put on alert because we were told it was a possible terrorist attack. And again, a week later we were put on alert when a bombing happened at the olympics in Atlanta.
RIP my dear friend and superstar photographer Rico Puhlmann on this flight... you are missed bigtime buddy... :(
My aunt and uncle were watching two neighborhood girls whose parents and grandparents were on this flight, going to Paris for their anniversary. They had to tell them what happened and coordinate with relatives who would take them afterwards. Heart goes out to everyone lost and their families that endured ❤
ua-cam.com/video/mqL0V1XaU7Q/v-deo.html it was an job
😭
This is so heartbreaking ! 😪
🧢🧢🧢
Blessings to them Today and always.
I was the chief purser on Alitalia 609 from JFK, after take off I’d gone into the flight deck to ask the guys if they wanted a drink. The capt was in already on the radio with the ground with this communication on what they’d just witnessed. All I saw was the flames in the sea. Very somber flight home to Milan. RIP to all involved
I was a TWA pilot at that time. I had bids in for 727 Captain, with next choice 747 copilot. I got the 727, and was the junior captain at all of TWA. Had just one pilot senior to me taken that slot, I would have been the most junior copilot on the 747. The pilot who got that 747 bid, was my friend. He was on reserve, and was assigned to deadhead on flight 800, which he did. So, I missed being that guy, by a strike of fate. I knew about 8 of those who perished. The flight engineer in training, was the son of my friend that I’d known since 1978😢. Prayers to all, RIP
I worked with Hobie Tomlinson after his TWA retiremen,t who was a Senior Captain at that time. He flew that exact aircraft a couple of days previous, since he spent most of his career on the JFK-Rome run.
@@briglad5274 See my name in my posts. What’s your name? I somewhat knew Hobie. I was based in JFK for many years. He enjoyed being in management. I finished up 40 years as a line pilot in 2018, with AA. 28 years on the 767😳
@@davidmangold1838 Screen name is a contraction of my name. Brian Gladden. I worked with Hobie at Heritage Flight out of BTV from 2005 to mid 2007, when he was flying charter there. I was doing line service. Small operation (compared to TWA). About 60 employees. Hobie was Safety Director and Captain on our two Citation 560XL's and the four King Air C-90's we ran. I recall him telling me he was over 38,000 hours at that point. We also had a former United 767 Instructor Captain working with us then too. David Kent. I haven't talked to Hobie in a loooong time but at nearly 75, Dave is still flight instructing out of KLEB.
@@briglad5274 all interesting to hear. Sounds like it was a good operation. Glad Hobie had life after TWA/AA. I’ve been 100% retired since January 2018. 54 years flying was enough. 28k hours and 18k in the 767. TWA was way better than AA😡. Now I fly my 1945 v tail bonanza when I have somewhere to go.
You know the truth, then, don't you.
I am certain the passenger lost consciousness as soon as the hull broke. We can only hope nobody experienced the fire and impact.
Content warning:
I have watched several videos that made educated guesses on the impact of the passengers. The pilots most likely died instantly and the passengers of the front half have the plane (of the part that wasn’t the nose) were most likely decapitated.
Was this one with kids on board Just ring a bell on this very sad anyway.
I never saw them mention how many were onboard.
@michaelrocky4571 At 5:42 it reads 212 passengers and 14 crew.
@@robh7671yes a high school French club from Pennsylvania.
imagine being a pilot, flying a plane miles above the ocean, and watching another plane explode. i can't even begin to imagine what went through all the cockpit crews heads watching that
"Thank fuck it wasn't us".
@@charlesmiller3278
😅😅😳
My husband was flying over Balboa Park when PSA went down in San Diego. He cancelled the rest of his flights and went home - he felt awful.
Theres definitely some form of PTSD there now that wasn’t before.
@@sherisagall9670 bro it was an insid3 job
I just cannot begin to imagine the horror and terror everyone felt on that plane. God bless them all.😢
I agree. As a retired aircrew member I remember the number of flights I crewed and can only imagine the fear everyone must have experienced.
I don't know if this will help you but it's given me a different outlook on our passing, it's called Soul Crossings with Cash Peters.
He draws what he sees as we go from our death, as we leave our bodies, and then go into the light.
It's really different for everyone.
@@lorimiller4301 I almost died and i saw myself going out of my body and seeing people around me and could even hear everything but just before going out of my body saw all my past life very fast! Very weird! I came back because someone saved me from drowning!
@@mysterytour5983 Happy you are still here with us. If you dont mind me asking, do you believe in god?
Praying for each of those who perished and their families.
I was supposed to be on that flight with my parents and brother. About two weeks before, our TWA Getaway tour was canceled due to not enough people signed up. They asked if we still wanted to use the airfare tickets but we declined. We were refunded and we went to Hawaii instead. I think of everyone on board as well as the families affected, every anniversary.
Wasn’t y’all time to leave this planet I’m glad at least you and your family are survivors 🙏🏽 Gods plans
It wasn’t your time to leave this planet because GOD loves you and wants you to repent and believe on The LORD JESUS CHRIST so you can be in the Kingdom of GOD. You were saved so you could share The Gospel Of JESUS CHRIST were ever you go !!! I pray may all the people who lost loved ones on this flight come to faith in CHRIST JESUS !!!
What A story. Thank God.
@@cushturah Freak.
It wasn’t your time, that’s why people must trust their instincts
My son’s friend David Babb was on this flight with his Aunt and Uncle. So very sad for the New Wilmington Pa community. 😢 I will never forget this.
It's all Boeing's fault
@@serenadevon nope your stupid to think that
@@serenadevonno it's not....
Womp womp
@@BuggYTofficialactually it is
My parents were on the Athens to JFK flight. The flight right before this one. It was their 10th anniversary trip. It’s still affects them, especially my mom. It could’ve been them that lost their life and my siblings and I would’ve been orphans. What a tragedy for all these victims and their families.
I've thought about those passengers that got off from Athens & how fortunate they
felt to be alive!( I worked at JFK when the first 747's came in 1970 (loading the galley
with food & drink) & marveled at its enormous size!) That night, I was heading to
work at 11p.m. @ SUNY, in Nassau Cty. & was delayed by rescue vehicles, headed to
the nearest land to the crash site! To me, a 'terrorist attack' should never be ruled out!
im lucky you have a mom and dad, still.
That's crazy your parents literally took the last flight of that plane
@@rongendron8705 Unless someone really messed with the circuits aforehand, and even despite that- any competent mechanic or supervisor thereof would have raised concerns and stopped that flight. I would have, and probably would've been canned for it (as the result would have been no crash, ergo no cause proven). I think TWA, iconic as it was, was in decline at that time, and had to keep up face with their newer competition in order to stay relevant. I now think there was pressure on mechanics and others to keep things moving timely. And I loved TWA, but they let themselves age out. It could and should have been stopped from flying. You don't pull fuses and breakers to get around safety constraints. The short circuit was constant, until such time that heat and oxidizing limits were able to ignite catastrophe.
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It is believed by some that passengers in the rear section of the plane could have remained very conscious until the plane hit the water. THAT is about as terrifying a way to die that I can conceive.
Yeah, you would wonder what you did to deserve this kind of ending? Did I kill someone in a previous life? Not the way you want to depart.
I hope they all quickly became hypoxic and didn’t suffer.
@@Jefferson1969-u4s I'll never complain about a delay or lack of leg room again. That's some brutal stuff. Just the air /flames blasting in at 400mph +.
And then, it gets WORSE.
@@Jefferson1969-u4s One of the reasons some think the passenger were aware of what was happening is because they were only at 13,000 feet at the time of the explosion. Had they reached cruising altitude, they would have, indeed, become hypoxic and passed out well before hitting the ground.
As it occurred, I would guess many people went into cardiac arrest caused by quite literally being scared to death. The disorientation of the entire event must have spared some as well, being unable to fully comprehend the magnitude of the moment. Apparently, many of the dead were still strapped into their seats. Presumably, waiting for the captain to extinguish the seat belt sign.
@@JCDofNYC That is truly dreadful.
This is absolutely one of my worst fears and it’s only gotten worse the older I get. My heart goes out to everyone on that plane, their family and friends. We can only hope that all passengers were knocked unconscious after the initial break up. Just talking about this has my heart rate through the roof.
Why
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@@l21n18because despite the fact that air is statistically the safest form of travel, when something goes majorly wrong, the horror experienced can be the most extreme form of horror. Even if surviving.
Me too. As a child it was like a neat ride. As an adult I hate it and it only gets worse.
@@unknownportalmusic Exactly
Imagine the few moments between the cockpit being ripped off and the hull of the aircraft crashing into the water. I imagine many if not most passengers were still alive and conscious during that. Each second must have felt longer than a century. What a horrible way to go. Sorry for all the lives that were lost that day.
they weren't conscious
@@mikegrabowski7483they were for a while but lost consciousness on the way down
@@highaltitude787 GTFO of here. No they were not
@@mikegrabowski7483 just curious, not trying to get into a UA-cam comment war with you. There were reports that 19 of the victims had water in their lungs at the time of autopsy. Water in the lungs indicates that there was at least one breath taken by these 19 people. Does that not indicate that those 19 were at least semi conscious upon impact? The majority of people were either dead or passed out immediately, there is no denying that fact, but it's hard to dispute that water in the lungs of 19 is solid indication of them being alive at least for a brief moment as they went into the water. I can't even imagine the horror of such a thing to go through, but that is the story of the autopsy results.
@@clownchaostime3024 p
As a retired B747 Captain...I can tell you the radio transmissions indicated TOTAL professionalism...by the book, attention to detail. These guys were SHARP. I doubt you could have had a more experienced, capable flight crew. So sad for the new FE. I lived in Westhampton, New York flying G3's (after airline retirement) out of Islip at the time. The wife of a co-captain of mine who lived in Quogue saw the entire thing...from the ground. She just happened to be looking and it greatly grieved her when she found out what it was.
I was just going to say, the level of calm professionalism with the “god bless him”, while maintaining their cool to transport their own passengers & crew safely to completion is so.. chillingly comforting and commendable. Thank you to all pilots for guiding us safely through the skies even when witnessing and reporting a shocking loss of your own. You’re all heroes in my book.
ua-cam.com/video/mqL0V1XaU7Q/v-deo.html it was an job
My dad was an avation attorney in Washington D.C. He showed me transcripts with pilots last words before the end, "OH shit"! were the most common.
I also thought the Captains talking on the radio were very professional. Their attention to detail was amazing
then she saw the missile go up and hit the plane! i remember hearing the interviews and video and witnesses see the missile!
"I think that was him. God bless him." Makes me well up every time I hear it. I try to approach safety studies in a rigorous, cool and scientific way, but sometimes it really hits you.
...for aviators to see another go down like that, especially a big commercial plane, must be shattering, numbing...
My eyes got wet during the whole conversations, especially when they repeatedly called for TWA 800 and they never answered... 😢💔
I am retired now. However, I used to work for TWA years ago. When I heard about this flight, I was in shock! Even when TWA was hijacked back in the 80's. Many prayers for these families! My family is an airline family, and we always said prayer for safe travel.
🙏🏼🕊🤙🏽🌺
N9lpne of you were paying attention...Americans are always so ready to over look b.s. 100 witnesses were outside that besutiful.clear night and saw a missile. The dmb fk navy accidentally shot it down and it was covered up. Google missile in background man holding birthday card night of TWA crash...if it hasn't been taken down. A man and woman got ten years for taking a piece of a seat to be analyzed, pink missile fuel mark. Many French people died on that flt and Pierre Salinger kept saying it was a missile then suddenly he went quiet.
Your prayers mean shit, they are still all dead, stop with the religious crap!!!
I cannot imagine how terrifying this must’ve been for these poor people.
Yeah can't imagine being shot down by your own government.
I think the medical consensus was that the majority died from blunt force trauma as a result of the initial explosion - many of the recovered bodies had broken necks. It is likely that some survived towards the back of the fuselage though. What really annoys me about this horrific incident are the conspiracy theories. They are the least likely explanation - and would have required a cover-up involving hundreds or thousands or people that simply would not have lasted.
@@mookie2637 Why not? It's lasted for the JFK assassination and the moon landing!
Then a fireball entered the cabin and burned like half the people
@@yankeetango Do you have proof of your claims?? Suggest you read Reclaiming History by Vincent Bugliosi and Beyond Reasonable Doubt by Mel Ayton and David Von Pein for the JFK assassination. Also Moon Hoax: Debunked by Poolo Attivissimo, both books destroy the conspiracy theories.
I was a TWA ticket agent at JFK at that time. 😢 I will never forget it for the rest of my life. It was my day off and one of my coworkers called me hysterically and told me what happened. I put my uniform on and drove to our TWA terminal. 😭😭 It’s the worst experience in my life, seeing all the family members of the deceased showing up at the terminal screaming, crying, throwing themselves on the ground..OMG! I try not to talk about it because I break down every time. We end up going to the hotel just outside the airport to assist our managers and other personnel’s including The Red Cross with the families of the deceased. There were people on the ground in the lobby crying and as employees without training for situations as this, we hugged them and cried so much. So many unaccompanied children perished not to mention our other dear beloved passengers and our crew. We also had a dead head crew onboard traveling to Paris to bring back an aircraft…. They all perished! I remember a young flight attendant fresh out of training, this was her first flight. She perished. This is the worst experience in my life😭😭. This pain will never go away!
R.I.P. you beautiful souls! You’ll never be forgotten. TWA 🙏🏾😭😭
Wow incredible. Makes you wonder how people can carry on after such a disaster. So sad
My brother in law was the captain on that flight rip 🙏 twa and all aboard 🙏 😢 and the families. After all these years, it still hurts 💔 to think about it. Peggy
I noticed that so many of those children seemed to be unaccompanied, at least nobody else had their same last names, so I wondered. Very sad and tragic for everyone involved, but I can't imagine the pain of putting a small child on a plane unaccompanied and have that happen. I can only imagine how this tragedy has always affected you. God bless you and bring you peace.
@@peggyminer7925 I am so sorry for your loss, God bless you and your family.
@@joshandrews7592 My dad put me on a plane from NY to Atlanta in the late 60’s. I had to wear a name tag and the stewardesses took good care of me. Didn’t think much of that back then. So sorry for those who have suffered the loss of family, friends and loved ones in plane accidents. 😔🙏🏼😢 (You couldn’t pay me or give me enough drugs to get on a plane now, even though I believe they’re safer.)
I've heard the audio before, and the tone shift you hear in their voices when they realise which plane it was... heart-breaking.
That "God bless him" really broke my heart. Such a tragic incident.
RIP to all those on that plane.
Me too 😢
Amen
@@TheGuyInTheCar43what part are y’all talking about please?
@@idontknowmuch3441 at the 12:00 time stamp ❤️
He knew.
EastWing saying, “God bless him,” is so incredibly sad.
I'm an atheist, but hearing that - the sentiment - made me tear up.
@@RP-wz9xbconvert to Christianity bro.
God loves you more than you know and He’d very much lime for you to spend the eternity with Him.
@@lymehurtz it costs 0 dollars out of your pocket to not intrude religion into a completely unrelated topic
@@RP-wz9xb 🙄
My nephew was the chief (and only) reporter from the USCG sent to cover this tragedy. He was deeply affected & suffered a great trauma as a result. The pictures I saw were heart wrenching
When this crash happened? Can u say
@@nitiandfrens 1996, July
So Sorry😢
---- > Were any of the crew or passengers recovered?
When did this happen?
My friend had a huge number of relatives from France that had come over for their first trip to America, and meeting their American relatives, and were on their way homeward bound back to France. An entire section of family, his aunts, uncles and young cousins all perished that day. 😢 God bless them all.
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The Miller family?
Heart breaking.
Shit happens. They were actually more likely to die on the trip to the airport than on an airplane.
My heart goes out to that high school class on board on their way to Paris. I'm 17 and I can only put myself in their shoes and imagine if that were my class on that plane with my friends. Truly so sad and terrifying for all of the poor people.
Oh my god u serious wow that's so horrible a whole highschool class and that kind of disaster ..
I didn't know there was a high school class on board. I remember taking a trip to France when I was a Junior in high school. I got to sit in the front right window seat on the upper deck of our 747. It was a very memorable flight.
Wow, I had no idea. Was the plane explosion in the Final Destination franchise inspired by this tragedy?
@@btsarmyzona8541 Yeah actually. The detectors of the Final Destination movies were tasked with making an X-files episode of TWA800 back in the late 90’s but the episode was eventually scrapped. The directors liked the episode script so much they ended up just making into a movie which is what we know as Final Destination
My ex-wife's son was part of that class. She said he missed the flight, although I don't remember why.
i used to work on planes. I'm really nervous flying. the fact that this doesn't happen more often surprises me. aircraft companies are moving from safety and quality assurance to a profit model. results are what we're experiencing today with airlines and boeing. perhaps other manufacturers as well.
Well stated -- this term cannot get out of my head every time I read or see one of these tragedies -- The Normalization of Deviancy. Taking short cuts, not going back to fix something that those working on the part knows it is broke or not working properly. For something like a TV or computer, OK, but when you are justifying shortcuts on parts that go on airplanes, ships, cars, medical devices, in building of our homes, etc., etc. -- items that can take life, that is unacceptable.
D e i hires too, like Boeing
This plane was shot down by the US navy
Former A&P, maintenance and inspection is viewed as overhead for companies. capacitive fuel indicators always worried me too.
That is absolutely terrifying as hell. You cant even go over how scary that entire situation is. Dont even wanna think about it. To see the plane rip apart like that. Rest in peace to all on-board.
@@bobby1970 but you drive a car? Our roads are much deadlier than the skies. You just don't hear about how many people perish daily in vehicle wrecks.
@@janepatterson6372 I’m sorry, but die in a car crash no matter how terrible would still be less horrifying than that.
@@janepatterson6372 Dumb comparison.
@Charles NOT a dumb comparison at all!
When a plane goes down it's a huge deal compared with the daily fatal car accidents that happen across the world.
@@sarcasticallyrearranged It's a dumb comparison. It's not about dying in a crash in general but about how terrifying the situation must have been. I bet many of the people weren't even dead the time they were falling down and witnessed such a horrific sight before falling to their deaths.
Yes, air travel is considered to be safer than road travel where disaster like this is not expected but it happens and when it happens, it happens in a worst way possible than a typical road accident. Reason why air crashes get more attention than the road ones.
When you know the circumstances and sequence of events that lead to things like this, it’s crazy to think about how thin the line between life and death can be and you’d never even know it.
Apparently, in this case, it was 5 centimeters. Amazing that there was so little space with zero insulation between the packs and the tanks.
I would've been screaming for Jesus to take me before impact to have to die
@@txbill2512 eh, it was a missile. There's pretty much no denying it at this point.
@@blackieblack Sure mate.
@@txbill2512 No, actually, it was almost certainly shot down. We can't be certain of course, but the fact that TWA Captain Mundo signed a sworn affidavit saying that on his flight from Athens, Greece, he not only emptied the center fuel tank, but that he had also vented it of any fuel vapors debunks the FBI & NTSB center fuel tank theory.
Not that in matters anyway, because in 2022, former Navy Operations Specialist, William H. Teele, III, from the U.S.S. Carr, came forward as a whistle blower reporting that the U.S. Navy had accidentally shot down TWA Flight 800, on July 17, 1996.
There is plenty of evidence though and it's all out there; but you will never go seek it out yourself and even if you tried, most of the internet is sanitised these days anyway.
This was the end of the era for TWA after this flight. So sad and tragic. So many tragic bombings, operational problems, and terrorism acts through the 70s to 2001. May the families of the victims be at peace with this tragedy.
Don’t forget the mismanagement of the company, Carl Icahn, and deregulation that was the factors of killing TWA up until the AAL merger in 2001.
They garnered the new nickname:
"The Worst Airline."
Man, TWA didn't deserve this
The only thing i could commnend it is that they surpassed Pan Am in terms of years
The only acts of terrorism throughout this period , can be traced back to the corrupt arrangements between the airline industry as a whole and the NTSB and FAA . Don't blame terrorists , the truth is closer to home .
@@senabecool7232 it was a nasty crash
One of my favorite Vogue photographers Rico Puhlman died on that flight. Took great shots of Cindy Crawford
What a horrible disaster and how awful that nearly every single pilot was extremely experienced, probably nearing retirement age. Yet not one of them, with all of their combined years of experience could have done a thing to save this doomed flight. Such a tragic story. My heart and prayers go out to all of the families affected by this. Thank you for handling this recreation, as always, with such respect and compassion and factual research and animations.
The plane was due for a big inspection imo and the long hours of operating with only a short break on the ground....I don't want to think of all the near misses of accidents, those machines need to be in the air all the time to make money.In this case, the financial profits were paid in blood.
If the research came from FBI or miltary source, its not factual.
I'd like to know what the pilots attempted to do after the explosion
Hard to do anything as a pilot when your aircraft is hit by a missile.
@@jasonnicholasschwarz7788 the plane was hit by a missile
As an aircraft mechanic, it was mandatory to study this accident annually.
@BOB K Old planes can fly just fine if they're taken care of properly, and in accordance with scheduled maintenance. This 747 was not by any stretch of the imagination. Failure to clean up after maintenance, aged and unserviceable wiring, neglect, it all added up to a massive tragedy.
The NGS system installed on aircraft after this was the biggest waste of money. Damn system always has issues
Accident?
@@Sarasdad91 Yes, Accident. A result neglect, and bad maintenance
@@mikegrabowski7483 You are right. What happened to TWA flight 800 was Negligence, and incompetence.
My sister was planning to fly to Paris to meet our other sister that was already in Europe on vacation. She was looking at plane tickets and had two options: TWA800 or another flight leaving a day later. Luckily, she decided to stay an extra day in NYC and purchased a ticket for the other flight.
ua-cam.com/video/mqL0V1XaU7Q/v-deo.html it was an job
I was in a plane accident too last October 23 2022 in cebu philippines via KE631 it's was extremely scared. We are very lucky all passengers and crews are alive. A million thanks to God for everything.🙏🙏🙏
Yeah sure 🙄
Whew thankfully 😅
That same trip the next day would have also been TWA 800.
My grade school ESL teacher Mrs. Miller was on this flight. I didn’t know her much other than seeing her in the hallway, but she always had this sort of elegant pleasantness about her. Our town was devastated when this happened. Such a tragedy.
Suddenly everyone in this comment section knows someone on the plane 💀 yeah dude sure you did.
apparently the whole miller family was on that plane from the names in the list
@@edith4189 230 people died. Lets say each person was known by 100 people (actual numbers probably way higher in most instances), that means there are 23000 people out there that knew people on the plane. You don't think any of them use UA-cam and could have come across this video? Your an idiot.
@@edith4189what a nasty thing to say. Jerk
My mentor, friend and boss Jed Johnson was on this flight - to this day the most difficult thing I’ve ever gone through in my life. At the time it shattered me … devastating.
Prayers for everyone
That name sounds familiar...was he Andy Warhol s partner by chance?
Yes, he was Andy’s boyfriend for 12 years. Very sad, he was a very talented interior designer.
@@maryf259 Andy Warhol was a self aggrandizing fraud of an "artist" that was celebrated for the banality he created. He helped set the stage for other frauds like Damien Hirst and Jeffrey Koons.
It's the celebration of celebrity over talent and creativity.
Taking a moment to appreciate all the hard work that went into the making of this video. I never heard the communication with ATC before.
RIP to all the victims of this terrible disaster.
Superb presentation of a tragic event.
The atc repeatedly calling for TWA 800 and then realizing it was them who exploded breaks my heart
Reporting the explosion and at the same time having to fly your airplane...i cant imagine the stress level...
I think I'd be like ... Control, I really really need to land, like... R I G H T N O W
@@michellepricejawers2028Then you are WEAK!!!!!!
I cant even imagine what the poor poor passengers were thinking in those vital seconds. Rest in peace
They were already dead
@@ryanhull2523 you don't know that but most probably were.
They were on fire 🔥
Unimaginable fear! Yet knowing how it’s gonna end🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🥺💔
@@specialkyt they were already dead
Used to work for TWA back in my 20’s as a Flight Service Manager and when this happened I had been away from the company for nearly 5 years, but it hit home because I had worked that flight on several occasions. God Bless all who perished on that day…
I grew up on Long Island and I remember this. We’d go down to the ocean and see them pulling wreckage out of the water. They were pulling bodies and wreckage out for what seemed like forever. The bodies were taken to the morgue a few miles from my old house, I always thought about them as I would pass it. It’s the crash that stopped me from flying for many years.
Your Gov at work
@@777RockNRollin it was a pretty gnarly explosion that sent wreckage all over. If I remember the search areas were huge. They rebuilt the plane out in Calverton to rebuild in this massive hangar so the NTSB can investigate. They were trying to collect every single piece they could, bodies included.
But your car is about a million x more dangerous.
A car don’t carry as many souls as a airplane. So people need to stop comparing a car crash to a airplane crash.
Exactly. Those comments be so annoying. Also, no one would rather drop thousands of feet from the sky ; and even suffering from burns at the same time .
I was on a TWA flight in the summer of 1992 from Dayton OH to San Jose CA. I remember my grandma flagging down one of the flight attendants and whispering something to her. I wasn’t paying much attention at the time because it was my first time flying and my first time to California. When we landed, I remember the entire runway was flooded with emergency personnel vehicles.
I flew home two weeks later by myself. I didn’t know until I got home that those emergency vehicles were waiting, prepared, for our plane. An engine was on fire. My grandma told the flight attendant she smelled smoke. Nobody told me until I got home… had they, I would have still been living in California to this day, 32 years later.
I also flew home from California, directly over the Twin Towers, exactly one month to the day before 9/11.
RIP to those who lost their lives on TWA flight 800 and to all who lost their lives on 9/11/01.
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I remember this day so clearly as I lived in the area and know someone who lost a relative. Watching this animation was gut wrenching. God bless all those lost.
I have to say God rest and bless the innocent, and damn the incompetent and complicit, because I see this as totally avoidable by an airline in its decline. And I love TWA historically. But right is right.
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@@Barefoot433 there is no god stop believing in fairytales
there is no god stop believing in fairytales
@@ADIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIthat's what you believe lol
And if thats the case then who created the big bang lol😂
I can't imagine losing my wife and kids on a flight like that and being the one who stayed behind for whatever reason. How do you come back from that. Also the way in which the plane broke apart, you know people's last moments were quite long and filled with terror and discomfort if they were concious for the descent. RIP
Such a tragic way to have to accept your loved ones had to die. Yet knowing God's angels were standing by to retrieve them too.
They were alive until they hit the water
@@gregbell3559No they wasn’t, u see all that fire and smoke? the inside of the plane was engulfed in it. They burned to death or died of smoke inhalation I’m sure.
You can't. What devastation
It was like a blowtorch inside. People in front had no clue. Everyone else heard the explosion and saw a fireball coming. Maybe someone in the very back stayed alive long enough to realize the fall b u t they would have been terribly burned and focused on that. Based on simulation fire never stopped and plane started breaking up on the downward arc. Absolutely horrifying.
I am not a conspiracy theorist in any way. I am a retired aircraft mechanic that worked heavy maintenance on 747-100,-200, -400 and SP series. The explanation given by the FAA was logical and on point. But I just have one question, in all the years of these aircraft flying earlier to the crash, why didn’t this happen before ?
I wonder if this would have happened if the center fuel tank had been completely filled at JFK? There would have been very little fuel air mixture with a full tank.
@@roberthagedorn290 I was thinking that too!!
At this point i wouldn't believe the US Government or US Government Agencies if they told me the sky was blue and the grass was green.
@@stephenbate933 me also! What has been coming out in the last few years about things that our government has done and is doing makes me question everything!
Because it was a combination of circumstances.
What a terrifying way to die. My deepest sympathies to the families left behind.
This strikes me in so many ways. I flew to Athens on TWA that night. I did not know that the plane that exploded had originated in Athens the prior flight. We were delayed departing JFK. I don’t remember hearing a reason for the delay, but I remember hearing of the crash slowly filtering through the plane a few hours into our flight. I still think that there could have been a good chance I passed some of the passengers who died in the terminal.
😢 hugs to you
Happy that you're still here though but sending you hugs for the traumatic memory.
Haunting
How would you have received news while in flight? No cell phones or any method of contact with anyone in 1996. The pilots probably knew from ATC, are you saying the spread the news?
@@RB-lc8lh I think it was known before we took off… we ended up leaving around 10 pm. Just wasn’t well known before takeoff.
Michel Briesroff, a well known hockey player, was on this flight, along with Courtney Whitmore, The sister of Geoff Johns and the inspiration of DC’s Stargirl series. That “I think so” from the Boston controller….I could hear the sadness in his voice…… ugh heart wrenching. Kudos to the controllers and other pilots for pulling together in that situation and acting like one unit. Like a big family of aviators looking out for one another……
I remember when this happened I had a strong (and strange) feeling that I knew someone on the flight. When the passenger list was announced, my feeling was very sadly validated. A guy I ran track with in high school was on the flight. I read that he was heading to a friend’s wedding in Paris. He was a really cool guy, very quiet and sweet. He was also a great runner. I was so sad for his mom. Still can’t believe what happened. Prayers for the families who lost loved ones. ❤
He is now jogging in heaven.
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@@MyEyeOnAi Learn English before you try to post here.
@@maxalberts2003 I found your address, enjoy whats coming
My neighbor was a Coast Guardsman in command of a motor whaleboat who responded to this crash. He wasn't given any details about it, and thought it was a light aircraft he was headed for. Then he spotted flames on the surface of the sea. Getting closer, suddenly he could see passengers, still attached to their seats, floating to the surface. They tried to pull people aboard but could see there was no hope.
@MarlinWilliams Why was there no hope, could they not give them lifebuoys? Or were they already dead? :((
A note about engine #3: Although they had just fixed an issue with the reverser on engine #3, you mentioned that they did not initially start this engine, specifically because of the repair. This is not true. On the 747, there are different hydraulic circuits and backups to those circuits, which are powered by various different engines. However, engine #3 does not power any of these primary or backup circuits, therefore engine #3 is always the last to be started, and the first to be shut down. Often on long taxiway routes from runway to gate, engine #3 is shut down after a 2-minute cool-down period. Likewise, if there is a lineup to get to the runway, engine #3 is often started only when the plane is withing a minute or 2 of takeoff.
Thank you for that
Your "hydraulic" info. Is s turn on even though I hate heights
@@forreal245 what
Great info, Alex. Thank you!
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I’ve seen so many of these I’ve almost become numb to them but this one got me emotional. Just hearing the other captain say “god bless him”
every year a million and nearly a half people die in car crashes world wide and millions more badly injured--nobody cares
Do these plane crashes make you not go on planes
While any fatal crash is a devastating tragedy, usually in crashes caused by mechanical failures you have a flight crew fighting valiantly until the very end that you can take a little bittersweet pride in. At least you get a feeling that they didn't give up and they went down swinging. This disaster has always stuck out to me because not only did these guys not do anything wrong, but they were robbed of any semblance of a chance to save their plane. The helplessness of free falling into the ocean without even being able to put up a last-ditch effort to save themselves and their passengers ... it's just so unbelievably heartbreaking and so infuriatingly unfair.
Have you heard of Swiss air flight 111 who also crashed around the same area in the Atlantic in 98 also due to a fire on board and subsequent freefall of the airframe. These two crashes are kind of very similar, I don't know if he's made the video of the Swissair MD 11 on here yet? I have been looking for it
@@julesjulius187 Yes, TFC made a video on this channel that I have watched about that crash. Even there, while in reality probably just as hopeless a situation as Flight 800 faced; they got to call out a mayday, were fighting the fire however they could, were getting vectors to the nearest airport, etc. There's at least the small comfort that they were putting up a fight and doing all they could until the end. TWA 800 just breaks my heart because they didn't even get that chance. There was literally nothing they could do. And maybe the G-forces knocked everyone out and it was actually a more peaceful way to go than the Swissair crash. Maybe that's the silver lining of a terrible outcome. But again, it just feels so unfair that they never even got a chance to fight.
@@pokes404 yh you're right! Swissair 111 had a few bits more opportunities out of their really bad situation with the fire in the cockpit. The crew was calm, extremely professional and fought very hard for an immediate landing but were still unable to make it.
same was Lockerbie or Überlingen, let alone Germanwings 9525
Your comment really reminds me of JAL123. While both 747 went down, the crew of JAL123 put up a heroic effort with whatever little control they had; whereas with TWA800 they never had a chance to do anything. Absolute tragedies.
RIP to all who lost their lives. AND Bravo to all the engineers at Boeing and NTSB for pulling up all the pieces and piecing it all back together again to solve the problem. I remember engineers from many top schools were invited to help with recreating the tank explosion to know for sure what happened.
They created quite a "story", certainly!
This and Alaska Flt. #261( January 2000) are both in my thoughts most days! I had family friends on both flights, remembering them fondly. RIP to the families of both crashes!!
How tragically unfortunate, I'm sorry.
What the hell are the odds of that. If I were in your shoes I'd never get on a plane again
@@UMadUCauseBadThanks, however I can't dwell on it. With many miles flown, it's in GOD's hands!
@@trob0914 better spiritual man than I fr fr
I remember hearing a high school track and field standout from the bay area where I'm from was on this flight. Dan Gabor was a 800 meter track star. I saw him run at a few track meets but didn't know him personally. Was shocked to hear he was on flight 800. Rip Dan Gabor
Your Gov at work ,.. I am sorry for you sir
I had the honor of running a few track races with Dan. Having had a chance to meet him, I remember him as a very kind and humble young man. Amador Valley High named a track event in his honor, The Dan Gabor Invitational. RIP
@@777RockNRollin explain
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Watching this and seeing first the front of the plane fall away and then the rest of it engulfed in flames as it came down - what absolute terror there must have been among those poor passengers and crew. RIP to all who lost their lives and condolences to the loved ones they left behind. 🕯🕯🕯
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Thank you for your comments. I always think about the souls on board and the total fear they must have experienced.
My biggest fear too. But then I tell myself, do I want to stay in bed all my life?
Who can EVER forget the VERY moment we heard about this horrific tragedy, EVER ?? My Late husband & I had been planning another trip to Europe. To Paris, actually. I LOVE France. But my fear of flying FAR outweighs my love of France. Less than seven months before, we had returned from a two-month vacation of both France & Germany. My husband was unaware of how ill he was & I knew we had less than a full year left to us. Still, I could NOT bring myself to make reservations for this trip, my fear of flying, as I've said far, FAR exceeds my terror of just walking onto a plane. I cannot even imagine the terror these innocent people experienced. I just pray all these children, women and men were deep in the middle of a hungry kiss, a tight hug, a silly laugh, a song of love, a flirty wink, a loving whisper, a loving touch, holding hands, a loving embrace, a sexy squeeze, a loving smile, or hopefully, maybe even a slow dance. Anything, EXCEPT, what my mind ABSOLUTELY refuses to accept. This year, I send this to the Families of all the Souls lost that day. I have NEVER been able to forget that day, nor will I ever !!
On 17 July 2023, it will be 27 years that they ALL left us and every year, I repeat the same words of "High Flight" by John MaGee, Jr. These words mean so much to me. My Late husband was a pilot, and I know exactly what these words meant to him, as well as to other Pilots in the Military.
John MaGee, JR wrote "High Flight" on 3 September 1941, only three months before he would die, in a flight accident. John was an American, born in China, to Missionary parents. John earned a Scholarship to Yale, but in 1940, John enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and became a Pilot. On 3 September 1941, John finished writing "High Flight" & sent it to his parents. On 11 December 1941, John's Spitfire, collided with another plane over England & he was killed instantly. John's mother was British & he is buried near his parents. John was 19 when he died.
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings:
Sunward I've climbed & joined the tumbling mirth.
Of sun-split clouds------and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of------wheeled and soared and swung.
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue.
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy Grace,
Where never lark, nor even eagle flew-----
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the Face of God.
John Gillespie MaGee, JR
3 September 1941
9 June 1922 -- 11 December 1941
I was flying into JFK that night, my captain screaming over the intercom for the stewardess to go up front. They wouldn’t let us land we were circling around. My family heard a plane crashed and wasn’t sure if it was our plane. They didn’t want to call my parents. I’ll never forget this night. May all RIP for flight 800
How awful for you that your pilot was unprofessional enough to be “screaming for the stewardess”! Contrast that with the control and professionalism of the ATC and pilots who actually witnessed the disaster yet remained calm and related as much information as they could. Horrifying tragedy all around. RIP
@@lindahoffman2692it’s called shock!
For all those commenters who worry that those onboard suffered a terrifying demise they more than likely didn't know what had happened: when the initial explosion occurred there was a sudden massive deceleration in the plane which would have thrown everyone forward, smashing their heads into the seats in front. Autopsies suggested that most onboard died from broken necks or head trauma and would have at least been unconscious as the plane broke up if not already dead. It is very very unlikely anyone was alive and conscious as the plane caught fire and disintegrated.
I pray you are right.
@@eddiebrock8695 . The deceleration would've occurred with the initial explosion that would've cause the plane to decompress, The outside air now entering the airliner from underneath the plane, would slow the plane down. Once the nosecone fell off, and the rest of the plane tilted upward, that's when the acceleration would've taken place.
I'm not saying this is what happened. Just that the OP did say the massive deceleration occurred immediately after the initial explosion.
@Eddie Brock the plane didn't tilt upwards because it sped up, it tilted upward because it lost the entire mass of the nose section once it broke off the aircraft and that threw off the centre of gravity of the aircraft causing it to pitch up.
I can believe that they died not knowing anything if out of the blue their necks were broken.
A couple of days ago I slipped on ice and fell. My momentum was so strong that even with managing to get two hands on the floor to break my fall the bottom part of my chin still wacked the ground and jerked my neck back and cut a gash in my chin. Landing like that saved my teeth but nearly broke my neck in an instant. I had no idea what happened to me for a several seconds. RIP to everyone.
@@ninelaivz4334 I've fallen that fast too. Hardly anytime to stick out even one arm.
My family and I were in from London visiting my parents in New York. This happened the following day. I remember how frightened I was knowing we had to get back on a plane and fly back home.
I wouldnt have
Sorry, this tragedy happened a few days before the start of the Atlanta Olympics. Has it had an impact on the opening of the Olympics?
What are the odds of two catrascopic crashes happening in two consecutive days?
I never forgot what I was told as a young man and now that I’m 54 it’s about as true as it gets. Throughout the history of mankind only a very fortunate few get to die in their sleep. The rest of us? We go out the same way in, KICKING AND SCREAMING. This is a cold hard fact we ALL must face one day. Live your life as if it were your last day. Always tell the people in your life how much you appreciate and love them. Remember to always be a good and honorable person because your honor is the ONLY thing that you can take with you when you die. ✌️🙏✌️
Yet you remember neither, so totally irrelevant.
@@johnp139 just like you! Irrelevant 💪😎
This must have been one of the most horrifying events of all airline disasters! It's unimaginable what those poor people suffered through for some time before everything blew apart! God bless them!
I'd say the last thing The Almighty did was bless anyone on that jet.
If so, your boy has pretty warped sense of humor..
They died instantly from the deceleration forces. What do you mean before everything blew apart? As soon as the explosion happened, the parts fell to the water.
@@KP-zy1ke--I doubt it. :( The medical examiner said some were internally decapitated. The rest were either sucked out, fell tens of thousands of feet to the ocean or were burned alive. And can we assume the ones who fell weren't conscious all the way down?
I can tell you from personal experience and with a very high probability, even though they were conscience they didn't know what was happening while it was happening.
@@KP-zy1ke
Doubtful. Think of the Challenger incident.
Someone turned on the emergency oxygen after it the vehicle disintegrated as the crew compartment was tumbling and that could only be done manually..
Absolutely bone-chilling episode. Those poor souls, unaware they were flying on a ticking bomb.
This happened essentially in my "backyard" as I lived on the waterfront near Moriches Inlet at the time. I remember first hearing all the call sirens going off summoning volunteer first responders to their stations and one of my housemates at the time (who was volunteer EMS) bolting out the door with his "go bag". Moments later you could see the flashing blue lights of Coast Guard and police boats heading out of the inlet and then the rumbling of helicopters from the 106th Rescue Squadron in Westhampton flying overhead. Thinking is was some sort of local marine incident, I didn't think too much about it until my girlfriend at the time called from work and ask if a plane had crashed off the beach near my house. That's when I turned on the TV and started looking for information.
Of course the initial thoughts went towards terrorism and everyone in the area with a boat basically became a suspect. In the passing weeks nearly everyone on the water had been questioned, the night of the crash was probably the only recent evening that we had not been out on my boat, so I didn't have any firsthand information. A few weeks later though, we left moriches bay and headed out the inlet, which was finally free of Coast Guard and Police boats and seemed to be returning to normal, though the salvage operation was still going offshore at the main debris field. Unfortunately, after a few minutes out in the ocean, we found several pieces of suspected wreckage, each smelling like jet fuel and covered with glitter. It turns out that some of the kids were going to Paris to perform with their theater group and glitter was part of their cargo. Anyway, we gathered up the pieces and brought them to the nearby USCG Station Moriches at which point my boat was seized, myself and my passengers disembarked and my entire boat searched and swabbed from stem to stern while a cadre of MPs, FBI and other uniformed and un-uniformed folks stood by with their rifles at the ready. The parts were gathered, we were all I.D.'d and questioned and eventually allowed to reboard my boat and leave.
The entire surrounding area is very close knit (or at least was at the time) and serviced by volunteer fire and EMS companies, this operation changed many lives, the things they saw out on the water that night were truly horrifying and not easy to forget, my housemate that went out that night resigned shortly after, he had seen a lot during his volunteer career, but this was the thing that broke him. Everyone always prays for the lost and their surviving family members and if you are the type of person that says prayers in these situations, please remember to say a few words for those who heed the call and volunteer to respond to these disasters.
Thank you for the reminder to pray for first responder. The mental/emotional stress must be overwhelming. To see firsthand what happened to passengers in the aftermath of the explosion must be horrendous. All I know is, I couldn't do it. Prayers for all!
I absolutely agree. There are so many people who are traumatized by these crashes (all crashes, including those in which there are survivors). I don't know how responders & investigators are able to do the work they do, especially when I think of some of the daunting tasks they have. Arriving at a crash site to find mourners grieving for their loved ones and placing candles, flowers, & notes to honor them; recovering wreckage & finding personal effects that really humanize the tragedy; and listening to the CVR must be heartbreaking. I pray for them. I also pray for the ATCs and the witnesses, as well as medical staff who attend to and care for patients who have survived crashes. I don't know how many people really understand that while many of those who deal with the aftermath of such disasters are trained professionals, nothing can really prepare anyone for actually experiencing the devastation. Rest in peace to the victims of TWA 800, and my heart and prayers are with everyone who was affected. 🙏🏻
@@KristinCortez That is so true. Following the fire at Grenfell Tower (London) police, including our daughter, worked for 6 months recovering the bodies, some were only identified by bone fragments the size or a pea.
As winter set in, it was like a wind tunnel, due to all the missing windows, which added to the damp and smell. To make matters worse, the building became infested with rats. Things like this are never made public.
My god, that is awful. We forget, sometimes, how the volunteers & responders to these situations fare during the incidents, & later with depression. The feeling of helplessness must be hard to overcome.
As an Australian, I’m familiar with some American regions but not the area where you lived. I can imagine your tight knit community, though: thank you for sharing your story with us all❤❤
@@wilsjane Jeepers, that’s terrible. 6 months? The constant effort, mentally, having to get out of bed knowing what that day might bring in discovery must be a real test of mental & emotional strength & I can imagine that, in feeling this, there’s some guilt? As in “I shouldn’t feel this because I didn’t lose my life” & yet for all those left behind, families & responders, it’s so very difficult. ❤❤ from Brisbane (my husband’s from Essex).
I remember this like it was yesterday. Such a horrific event. I also remember the controversy surrounding this crash. Countless people stating they saw something rising from the ocean (implying a missile). I never followed things to that extent. This was a well done video.
I did follow the story. The 2013 movie TWA Flight 800 offers incontrovertible evidence of a cover-up. Investigators of the crash came out 17 years later to reveal government actions interfering with the investigation.
Anybody interested in this crash should see that documentary..
@@Seven-Planets-Sci-Fi-Tuber You are correct and one of the only ones to state what really happened. The cover up was so obvious. Our government does not work for us anymore!!
No way their story makes sense - absurd.
Likely a military mishap, covered up.
SevenPlanets777-Scifi-tuber Correct. I haven’t seen the documentary but I knew many people came out later saying it was a coverup.
I lived in Southampton about a mile from the ocean at the time. That entire summer wreckage was brought to the Coast Guard station in Hampton Bays and loaded on flat beds to be trucked to Grumman’s hanger in Calverton. They covered the plane with tarps but we all knew what it was. An almost daily reminder of this tragedy of the victims and their families!
I remember this crash well. It was huge news at the time (deservedly so) and a source of much theorizing about possible causes. RIP to the crew and passengers. I can only hope they didn't suffer for long.
This was before I was born, but I remember one of my family members was in Long Island at the time, and he heard the big boom in the sky, pretty scary to be someone on board, one moment you are sitting comfortably in the seat, the next you get sucked out.
I pray the rapid decompression knocked everyone out before they hit the ground.
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Crash!? CRASH!? You mean the deliberate destruction of a jet with many senselessly lost lives also! CRASH! Yeah, OK! Whatever you say!
This was very tough to watch as I knew two people who were the parents of friends of my wife and I at the time, and they were on that plane bound for a greatly anticipated Paris vacation. They were wonderful people and my wife knew them since her childhood. I was living in Brooklyn at that time and have never forgotten that fateful day, or the difficulty of my friends and my wife getting through those very tough times. I even saw the very plane being reconstructed at a airplane hanger at Floyd Bennett Field in Marine Park, Brooklyn for several years afterwards, as they tried to determine the actual cause of the explosion. This recreation was one of the better descriptions I have seen as to what really may have happened. So sad. RIP to all the people on board that day.
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And yet there are people who think a missile took it down. Keep hearing things about how a picture was taken and that the navy were firing heat seekers that day.
@@killtyrantthere were many people who saw a missile. Have you read the book Night Fall by Nelson Demille?
My condolences to all involved. It was a great loss to the guitar community when hearing gifted French guitarist Marcel Dadi was onboard
This was easily the most heart-breaking crash for me, the fact the pilots had 0 warning that anything was wrong and 0 chance to even act to the situation to even have a 0.0001% chance to save the plane. In many crashes, even fully fatal ones, the pilots have time to react, time to at least try and save the plane, even if it would be nigh impossible. Here there was nothing, not even a thought, not a single action. Just a ball of fire hurtling towards the ocean below. RIP all aboard TWA 800
I remember this so well, and this tragedy is what made me very fearful of flying. RIP all those who lost their lives.
I don't really like flying either; I have known at least eight people, personally, who died in plane crashes; including the Pan Am crash over Scotland.
I am not trying to disregard their passing but we as people can take these disasters into account when we put our trust into flying. With due respect from their passing can the aircraft manufacturers learn the weak points and where they need to make improvements to their aircrafts. I am terribly sorry for your losses but they will not go down in vain.
Yeah I would never get on a plane. Boat or car. Thanks
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French guitarist Marcel Dadi, friend of Chet Atkins whom he played with days before at the Opry was on that flight. RIP to all the victims
Yes. An excellent musician. He and Bill Keith were very good friends. He recorded a Nashville album and named a song for Bill, “Billy the Keith”. Bill played that song on the album along with fellow friend and banjo player Bobby Thompson (of Hee Haw)
I am an aviation enthusiast. This tragic accident has gripped me and will not let go. May the victims of TWA flight 800 rest in peace. I am wondering what happened to that patient who was supposed to get that organ. Does anyone know?
They were cornea's for eyes, in a box that is kept on the flight deck.
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Rest in peace the passenger crew and the pilot i feel so bad for them i hope you guys will see each other to heaven :(
Mr Krick certainly had a quick ending to his relationship with the airline. RIP
I was work for Delta Airlines at JFK at the time and most likely saw that Jet taking off without realizing it. But when I got home, it was all over the tv and my heart sank. There is a memorial set up in Long Island at Smith point where the plane went down
I worked in the funeral business at the time, and one of the victims of that crash had his service at our facility. Sad thing is as far as I can remember his body was never recovered. He also had the same last name as I do though there was no relation. RIP
Excellent graphics and a well-put-together overview, great job!
Watching you for years and this is the saddest one yet.. Respect for all the people there.
I will never forget that disaster. My prayers are still with the families and friends of all of the lives lost.
Every one died instantly. The explosion caused everyone seated to force their legs up and their knees hit them in the face. A Friend of mine is a forensic dentist who worked on the victims. Every one's teeth were knocked out and broken necks. No one suffered. Instant death. This happened while I was fishing off long island. I saw the explosion. Thoughts were that the plane was shot down with a missile. Some people saw a flame from something rising up towards the plane before explosion. To this day I think about this everytime I'm out fishing out by Moriches inlet Long Island. I say a prayer everytime.
@Roy,
What a stupid ass assessment! Nobody suffered?
And you are so right. I was in Suffolk, lived in Manorville and saw the plane get shot down. This was no accident- this was a fuck up by our military.
how many beers did you have that day?
The worst part is, we will never fully know
Most did not die instantly during the explosion! Their necks were broken during the impact with the water. Over half the victims suffered burns from the flames on the way down. 19 victims died from drowning. The truth is that they suffered tremendously.
I thought that flight 800 was the one a lot of people said it was hit by something fired from the ocean and the government said it was not, just an optical illusion? At that time the Navy was also doing exercise in the area.
Yes many eyewitnesses came forward saying they saw a missile hitting it from the ocean. Unintentional of course. There are two books on the subject “Nightfall” and the downing of Flight 800
There were a lot of people that said that. They were all told it was an optical illusion, all of them?. I don't believe that for a minute. Just like swamp gas were UFO's!
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It's comforting knowing those souls lost on this flight, that upon structural failure most met their end before the final plunge and hitting the water. The explosion and violent forces caused at least 183 of the passengers death to be instant. Many were spared the pain of the burns and horrible last seconds.
God I sure hope so. Can you imagine seeing the nose section of your plane go sailing past your window? You know in that second your death is upon you.
I seriously doubt the fuel explosion was that powerful.
@@seriouscat2231 it literally separated the nose from the aircraft
@@gpt-jcommentbot4759, I wonder what an explosion that only did that figuratively would look like. Seriously, you can break the hull and cause the plane to disintegrate without the explosion being felt inside too much. Though some person who also commented here said that according to a coroner most if not all passengers died instantly.
@@seriouscat2231 was it because they were internally decapitated or extreme Перемешать и перемешать и постоять в него на небольшим кубиком.
Thank you for your awesome flight recreations - part history, instruction & even entertainment..
As I spoke to a 737Max United pilot at my church recently, he was astounded to hear my familiarity with his job.
I said: "I never miss a Flight Channel video".
He laughed & said "that's great neither do I"
I appreciate your support :)
Has to go to church to pray about his actions of choosing to fly for united
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Have no clue about merits of his employer.
Goes to church & work to support his lovely wife & kids,...just like anyone else lol.
@@psalm2forliberty577 Do churches in America pay you to attend then?
As a student pilot (after this happened) I saw lots of takeoffs and landings, mine and others, after being afraid of flying in my younger years. The instructor talked a lot about learning from the crashes of others, to be a better pilot. I chose a mundane career instead of flying, to be "more sensible" and lost it all anyway, to a crashing economy (I wouldn't have done any worse if I'd chosen to fly for a living like I really wanted). When I chose firefighter-EMT for a new career, some long-held fears almost kept me from passing the academy (I'm thankful for the instructors and friends who made me keep going) and on the job I started to see all the everyday risks that kill people every day yet we don't think of them. House fires, every day, somewhere in the country... claim lives. And most of them totally preventable just by knowing more about how fire starts & spreads, and how to escape. Car crashes, thousands per day, every day. Most of those are totally preventable too. How many people would think, "At the next intersection my time is up?" We just trust that the headlights coming the other way have an awake, sober, non-distracted driver behind them. How many people go to bed and think, "I'm going to leave this earth before my alarm goes off, because a shorted toaster in the kitchen is going to start a fire whose smoke will melt my lungs tonight?"
Something else I saw in fire-ems, reflecting on flight lessons: Aircraft incidents don't happen often, there are plenty of people who never experience a house fire or serious car crash, but every day there are calls to the nursing homes. There are some very sad sights in nursing homes, sights that make you say, "I hope I never get like that." Eventually I saw a family member get like that, and it was a comfort to us all when she passed, because she was physically miserable at the end. She wanted to either be young again, or else mercifully finished.
We can be afraid to do all kinds of things, only to end up like that. We will all die, and the mystery is how.
It's up to us to decide what to do between now and the time it happens.
When you think about it we all will die in one of 4 scenarios:
1) Doing what we do. Living. Something gets us before we're old. Could be an accident, murder, aggressive cancer or other illness... something takes us "too soon."
2) We get old and die from heart attack, stroke, sudden diabetic emergency, or sudden illness.
3) We get old enough to die slowly from a long chronic illness, or else body systems breaking down because they reached lifespan (the "wasting away in a wheelchair" scenario).
4) We get old and die peacefully in our sleep.
The #4 scenario appears in Kenny Rogers' song "The Gambler." The old gambler man in the song says "The best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep." Later in the song he crushes out his cigarette, drifts off to sleep, "Then somewhere in the darkness, the gambler he broke even."
Where the dead are, we will be. We will all be where the people of flight 800 are... where the Titanic victims are. Where yesterday's fire and car crash victims just went. Where several people in nursing homes are going today. We are all going to the ends of our bodies sooner or later.
What we do between now and then is what matters. Our obituaries are being written now. We get to decide right now what we want them to say, and then work on that.
If you have dreams for your life, don't let fear get in the way. Fear is legit, it can be powerful. But it has way too many victories on its record and it wants us to forget we're going to die no matter what. Might as well live and hope to either die in the act of living, or else die in your sleep like The Gambler.
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What you wrote about death that made me think of my mother. She started life as the weaker twin, bullied and demeaned by her sister, and went through the Great Depression (in the 1920s-30s) as a young child and teenager. Her father was a beast; in and out of jail so raised by her mother and oldest brother (almost a 20 year difference). She only went as far as grade 5 and then worked hard and long as a scrub-maid in her teens. All she wanted in life was to become a 'mommy' and love her babies and little children.
With no example of what a good husband should be like (because of her mostly absent cruel father), she chose unwisely, escaping her life of drudgery by marrying a harsh older man, my father. He was faithful and a hard worker though but never showed love to her or us kids because of his hard/harsh upbringing although my mom loved him. I don't ever remember getting a hug from him or sitting on his lap as a child. I do remember being whipped and many hard spankings for minor misbehaviour. However, lots of families are pretty dysfunctional and still work. Ours did.
She was a good mom in many ways - very good with babies and young children - but didn't really know how to treat us or to raise us as adolescents. Still, she tried her best and loved us. Her mind-set, shaped by her experiences when young was always suspicious, thinking others were out to use her or lying to her. Hard to explain really.
My mom never did much with her life; had no hobbies or interests other than a working hard as a housewife, cooking, scrubbing and caring for her children and husband. It filled the hours of her day. I have lots of unhappy memories of her being unkind and hurtful to us but also many happy ones of her playing, singing and reading to us, and cooking special treats we loved.
I was with my father (he was never daddy or dad) when he was dying of a ruptured esophagus, blood filling his internal space. As he was losing consciousness and we were waiting on the ambulance, I tried to help, hooking up his oxygen but had no idea what was happening. His death devastated my mom as she was very dependent on him. Her grief was real but I never cried when he died, though it hit me in a strange way. It took my mom a couple of years to adjust but she learned how to be independent.
Sadly, my mom bgan developing dementia in her late 70s. The progress was slow. She grew more suspicious and thought people were only trying to use her. She lived in her own apartment but my older brother and his wife lived in the apartment one floor below and helped frequently. I'd visit weekly for most of a day. As she grew older, I'd bath her and wash and curl her hair. Took her shopping or places she wanted to go to, cleaned her place (fridge, stove,vcupboards, bathroom, etc). Caring for her needs became more than my brother and I could do as her dementia and depression worsened. We made arrangements for her in a long-term nursing home.
She refused to make friends there or socialise with anyone due to her suspicion. Even though it was a very good caring nursing home, she was very unhappy being there. My brother visited often and I still came every week, spending at least half the day with her, caring for personal things she wouldn't let others help with. Things like nail and foot care, brushing her hair and applying lotion, scrubbing her dentures, etc. She'd beg us to take her "home" but we couldn't. It broke my heart to see her so unhappy, deteriorating and withdrawn.
My last visit with her was a happy for her but sad for me. The person I visited had long ceased to be my mother - the one I grew up with or remembered. She was just a shell. I spent a long day with her, brushing her hair, giving her back a quick scrub and scratching it the way she liked before applying lotioning. Sang to her and talked about her life when she was young. I spent the day with her until bedtime, tucking her in and finally kissing her good night as she drifted off to sleep.
It's funny but in her last two decades she often called me mother. We'd get strange looks out in public when others heard. I asked her why she did but she had no idea. Maybe she did because she depended so much on me.
The next morning after my last visit, my brother told me that our mom had died peacefully in her sleep. She had been *profoundly* unhappy and would say she wanted to die. Dying in her sleep after a happy day was all we wanted for her. So many people I've known have died in bad ways, after a horrible illness or disease, in pain or slowing suffocating (congestive heart failure with lungs slowly filling up), or by suicide, or in a car crash - some of the ways you listed. So for my mom to die that peacefully was the best possible way. We were happy for her rather than sad as she was already 96 years old. I didn't cry but felt relief and a peacefulness, knowing her last day was happy. I think often about her and wish I still had her but not the way she became. Instead, the way she was in her 50s. She had them developed independence and it was fun visiting her and doing things together.
If you read this to the end, I'll be surprised. Don't really know why I wrote this in response to your post, and whether I should just delete it.
@@judew.5872it's a well written look into a random person's life, I thank you for posting it.
Wow really makes us think what's important in life one thing is for sure and that is life is short never know when or where. Just lost best friend motor cycle accident. May health related. The sport lives on. Believe it!!!!
My first year working at Boeing, and this happens. And 5 years prior I'd flown on a Fed Ex 747. The other 747 incident that sticks out in my mind is the cargo door flying off taking out a section of the fuselage and controls, and sucked some passengers out. They managed to land that sucker and save the remainder of the passengers, what a scary ride that must have been. RIP to the victims. The other sad time to be at work at Boeing was the 9/11 event.
I read somewhere there is a speculation since the pressure was so strong especially with that sudden break and high airspeed + wind it broke passengers's neck immediately but not for passengers who sit in the back seats, meaning some of them were probably conscious all the time before hitting the water, truly horrible..
All but nine died instantly from broken necks according to the autopsies. Those who didn't would not have been conscious for long.
hearthbreaking video... RIP all the souls lost that horrible day
I remember that day vividly. We were vacationing at Lake James in Indiana, left the beach, went to our room and heard this on tv. The news reported many young people on board. Devastating. Blessings for the family members.
It is so sad that people have to die for lessons to be learned. May they all rest in peace.