Originally Posted by
dhuey
It's hard to see how we don't have an epic disaster without UA1 pilot's urgent message
It's quite interesting cause, if my memory serves, at Tenerife there was another pilot who attempted to give an urgent warning, but the message didn't get thru cause someone else was talking on the radio channel. At San Francisco, was exactly the same, someone was talking on the channel but (presumably due to better technology), UA1's urgent warning did get thru. Without that, the result may very well have been the same.