Originally Posted by
Brick
The loss of the engine on AA191 at ORD was absolutely the result of improper maintenance. Please read the NTSB accident report.
Besides AA191, what other time were DC10s "literally losing their engines" and "DC-10 engines fall off"?
Yeah it was definitely improper maintenance practices. I suppose you could stretch it a say a flaw in the design of the maintenance procedures "causing" maintenance workers to find their own faster/cheaper ways to do things.
I remember watching the air disasters episode and that it was the worst accident in US aviation history. I thought at the end, there was a statement that there has never been another similar accident after they made the changes.
Originally Posted by
Kacee
757 wake turbulence.
You would think that someone at Boeing would have looked at the wake turbulence during the design and testing of the 757 and seen that it might be an issue.
Originally Posted by
DenverBrian
Originally Posted by
Wx4caster
It's been interesting seeing the discussion of AA191 -- but not for the fact that an AA agent moved them up to the next earlier flight after they showed up at ORD a little early that day, my (at that time 3-yr old) wife and her family would have been onboard that day. Scary to think about what could have been...
Fascinating. But I note that it never would have been "scary" for you if your then 3-yo wife and family had been on AA191...because you would never have met. @:-)
I think that is why he said "scary to think about what could have been" instead of "it could have been scary for me to think about"