OttoPylit From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 6048 times:
Delta will remove 5191 from the list of flight numbers used by Delta Connection carrier Comair, after the crash of Flight 5191 Sunday as it was bound from Lexington, Ky., to Atlanta. It is a traditional industry practice of respect following a serious accident.
With our current schedule, the service pattern for the Sunday morning flight from LEX to ATL differs from the weekday schedule. As scheduled, Flight 6107 departed LEX for ATL at 6:02 a.m., an Embraer 145 regional jet operated by Delta Connection carrier Freedom Airlines. With the new schedule effective Sept. 6, Freedom Airlines Flight 6107 also will operate the weekend frequencies.
Also:
Comair will release the passenger manifest for Flight 5191 after conferring with family members to ensure the protection of their privacy. The family notification process has been completed, including notifying families of international customers. Comair and Delta Care Team members are asking permission from individual families before publicly releasing the identities of their loved ones.
The Comair and Delta Care Teams have increased assistance to family members and loved ones of the passengers and crew. More than 100 employee volunteers have been dispatched from around the system, in addition to the approximately 50 Care Team members dispatched Sunday.
KC135TopBoom From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 11705 posts, RR: 52 Reply 1, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 6022 times:
Quoting OttoPylit (Thread starter): Delta will remove 5191 from the list of flight numbers used by Delta Connection carrier Comair, after the crash of Flight 5191
Flight # 191 seems to not be a good flight number for anyone, OH-191 (DL-5191), DL-191, and AA-191.
NWrr From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 84 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 6001 times:
Quoting OttoPylit (Thread starter): Delta will remove 5191 from the list of flight numbers used by Delta Connection carrier Comair, after the crash of Flight 5191 Sunday as it was bound from Lexington, Ky., to Atlanta. It is a traditional industry practice of respect following a serious accident.
You are correct. Most often they will retire the flight number after an accident, but not always. A prime example is AA Flt 1, which crashed on 01 March, 1962, but is still in use today JFK-LAX. It's quite curious as to why numbers are sometimes not retired after an incident.
Of course, as always, condolences to those who lost loved ones on 5191.
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Positiverate From United States of America, joined May 2005, 1590 posts, RR: 9 Reply 4, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 5770 times:
Quoting OttoPylit (Thread starter): The Comair and Delta Care Teams have increased assistance to family members and loved ones of the passengers and crew. More than 100 employee volunteers have been dispatched from around the system, in addition to the approximately 50 Care Team members dispatched Sunday.
Otto, its my understanding (contrary to what MSNBC was reporting ont he day of the crash), that within the first 30 minutes of the hotline being set up after the crash the 181 folks manning the hotlines took over 6000 calls with an average wait time of 31 seconds. Good work by your people.
OttoPylit From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 5, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 5578 times:
Quoting Positiverate (Reply 4): Otto, its my understanding (contrary to what MSNBC was reporting ont he day of the crash), that within the first 30 minutes of the hotline being set up after the crash the 181 folks manning the hotlines took over 6000 calls with an average wait time of 31 seconds. Good work by your people.
(nonchalantly brushing off both arms) Ahhh, not a problem, all in a days work. lol Actaully, that is a good point you make though. 6000 calls fielded by 181 Delta Care Team volunteers? By my calculations, and I suck at math, thats 33.1 calls per person? Someone help me clear that up, becuase that is either really quick calls, or they were able to hold 2 conversations at once!
I got to hand it to the Delta Care Team, though. These are volunteers, not getting paid any extra, who opt to go through specialized training just for this very type of scenario. Its something I know I probably would not have the patience or time to put in for it, but I give these folks my highest respect for being able to do so.
From reading up on the accident this morning, the recent runway and taxiway construction was confusing to several pilots, and there were NOTAM's out in regards to the runway lighting being affected on the commercial runway, which may have seemed not surprising that during the takeoff roll, the pilots unconcerningly commented on the lack of lighting. It seems that they were not even aware that the end of the runway was near, as the plane skidded in the grass past the runway before hitting an earth enbankment and becoming airborne. According to the news reports, if there was another 39 feet of runway left, the plane would have made it airborne safely. It is good to know that if this was going to be a tragic accident, there are many factors other than just simple, ignorant pilot error that contributed.
JFKLGANYC From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 2644 posts, RR: 5 Reply 6, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 5305 times:
"Well, in the case of AA1, it is probably because the flight number is too prestigious to them."
Prestigious yes. But if it happened today, it would be retired. 1962 was a time without CNN, FoxNews, MSNBC, and the internet. Today a crash and the flight number involved are plastered everywhere for all to see.
Can you imagine if TWA operated a TWA Flight 800 between JFK and CDG in the years following the crash(I believe it became 902)? Everyone knows TWA 800; it wouldn't work.
I always wondered why airlines use such flight numbers like 800 or 500 etc. It's too memorable it a crash occurs.
SQ452 From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 1053 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 5034 times:
Does anyone else find it creepily coincidental that the two comair crashes in the last 10 years, both had the second and fourth digit of the flight numbers as the same? For instance:
Comair crash in Detroit
#3272 (both the second and fourth digits are the same)
Comair crash in Lexington
#5191 (same thing)
Also...it is common practice when they announce these flights that they will say something like "now boarding for comair flight 32-72" and split the 4 digit flight number into two.
In both cases if you split the 4 digit flight number up in both instances (32-72 and 51-91) the difference between each in those cases is 40 (32-72 a difference of 40, and 51-91 a difference of 40 too).
I just find it a little creepy and disturbing. All very sad. I flew on Sunday with DL out of BOS and they were pretty down there since there is a fairly large contingent of Comair CRJ's there.
I think there is a science behind this called numeronics or numerology that looks at stuff like this...
Navairjax From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 10, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 4954 times:
Quoting JFKLGANYC (Reply 6): But if it happened today, it would be retired.
IIRC, the practice of retiring flight numbers after a major accident began sometime in the 1970s (PSA 182 always comes to mind as being one of the first to do so.)
AA777SJC From United States of America, joined Mar 2006, 57 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 4841 times:
Quoting SQ452 (Reply 9): Does anyone else find it creepily coincidental that the two comair crashes in the last 10 years, both had the second and fourth digit of the flight numbers as the same? For instance:
This isn't that mathematically significant:
Once you pick a number that has 2 digits in commom, there are 1000 more 4 digit numbers that repeat in those same two digits and differ in the other . (basically 10 choices for the number that gets repeated and 10 choices each of the other 2 digits. I supposed technically it's 10*9*8 = 720 since 4444 doesn't really have the same relationship is 3272 even thought the 2nd and 4th digit is equal.)
The 72-32 = 40 constraint is a bit more significant, but there are still around 50 numbers (out of 10000 possible 4 digit flight numbers.) so it's a 1 in 200 or 0.5% chance.
The far more mathematically odd event is that 3 airlines have lost a flight 191 since 1979. If you assume crashes are completely random and directly related to the number of times a flight is flown, the chance of one flight number is shared by 3 crashes has got to be fairly astronomical.
Goingboeing From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 4875 posts, RR: 19 Reply 12, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 4815 times:
Quoting KC135TopBoom (Reply 1): Flight # 191 seems to not be a good flight number for anyone, OH-191 (DL-5191), DL-191, and AA-191.
Call me supersticious, but I don't like any flight where the first and last number are the same (191, 232...)
Floridaflyboy From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 1985 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 4288 times:
Quoting AA777SJC (Reply 12): This isn't that mathematically significant:
Speaking of mathematically significant, I know people have noticed that the number 191, rearranged makes 911. Has anyone ever added up the flight numbers that crashed on 9/11?
11+77+175+93=456.
Then, add the first two and last two digits of that number
SW733 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 6072 posts, RR: 10 Reply 14, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 4288 times:
Quoting SQ452 (Reply 9): Does anyone else find it creepily coincidental that the two comair crashes in the last 10 years, both had the second and fourth digit of the flight numbers as the same? For instance:
Comair crash in Detroit
#3272 (both the second and fourth digits are the same)
Comair crash in Lexington
#5191 (same thing)
WOW, you need a girlfriend
Quoting JFKLGANYC (Reply 6): "Well, in the case of AA1, it is probably because the flight number is too prestigious to them."
Prestigious yes. But if it happened today, it would be retired. 1962 was a time without CNN, FoxNews, MSNBC, and the internet. Today a crash and the flight number involved are plastered everywhere for all to see.
I completely agree with this - there is no way it could get by these days
RyanAFAMSP From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 155 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 4207 times:
I didn't realize that the practice of retiring flight numbers has been contingent upon our media saturated age. This puts older practices of not retiring accident flight numbers into context.
Someone told me that TW847 had multiple incidents prior to the hijacking off of ATH in 1985. I believe TW usually used 847 for the CAI-ATH-FCO segment. A TWA 707 crashed into the Ionian Sea off of ATH in the early 70s. Was its flight number 847? Does anyone know if there had been other incidents on this route?
SW733 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 6072 posts, RR: 10 Reply 16, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 4116 times:
Quoting RyanAFAMSP (Reply 16): Someone told me that TW847 had multiple incidents prior to the hijacking off of ATH in 1985
TWA flight 841 has had two incidents, but TWA flight 847 was just the one hijacking, note the wikipedia reference for TWA flight 841
AlexPorter From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 17, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 3843 times:
Quoting FutureFO (Reply 8): No the flight will not operate. It is completely retired from the CRS system. Read above.
The quote doesn't answer my question. The quote at the top says that the Sunday flight will be changed following the September 6th schedule change / when the new timetable comes out. According to the current timetable, Comair is still scheduled to fly LEX-ATL at 6:00 AM on Sunday (September 3rd). What I'm wondering is this: For that last Comair-operated flight before the switch to Freedom after the 6th, will THAT EXACT flight still be 5191 or will they switch to some available Comair number for that day only? I'm sure plenty of seats on that flight are booked by now, so will there be one of Delta's schedule changes on their itineraries?
PillowTester From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 243 posts, RR: 0 Reply 18, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 3563 times:
Quoting SQ452 (Reply 9): Does anyone else find it creepily coincidental that the two comair crashes in the last 10 years, both had the second and fourth digit of the flight numbers as the same? For instance:
Comair crash in Detroit
#3272 (both the second and fourth digits are the same)
Comair crash in Lexington
#5191 (same thing)
Also...it is common practice when they announce these flights that they will say something like "now boarding for comair flight 32-72" and split the 4 digit flight number into two.
In both cases if you split the 4 digit flight number up in both instances (32-72 and 51-91) the difference between each in those cases is 40 (32-72 a difference of 40, and 51-91 a difference of 40 too).
I just find it a little creepy and disturbing. All very sad. I flew on Sunday with DL out of BOS and they were pretty down there since there is a fairly large contingent of Comair CRJ's there.
I think it's more creepy that you spent valuable time thinking about that, posting it on a forum, and that I spent valuable time reading it.
AirTranTUS From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 19, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 3498 times:
Quoting Goingboeing (Reply 13): Call me supersticious, but I don't like any flight where the first and last number are the same (191, 232...)
That is called a palindrome I believe. I don't blame you for being superstitious. only 10% of numbers are palindromes, but it seems that many flight numbers that crash are these types of numbers.
XFSUgimpLB41X From United States of America, joined Aug 2000, 3952 posts, RR: 36 Reply 20, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 3349 times:
For all you number people: On the radio, the Comair flight would have been using "Comair 191."
FlyMIA From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 6283 posts, RR: 6 Reply 22, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 3172 times:
Quoting XFSUgimpLB41X (Reply 25): For all you number people: On the radio, the Comair flight would have been using "Comair 191."
191 is just a bad flight number. I said on this fourm years ago that if I had a flight is the flight number 191 on any airline I would not like to go on it. Here is another case.
"It was just four of us on the flight deck, trying to do our job" (Captain Al Haynes)
UA772IAD From Australia, joined Jul 2004, 1635 posts, RR: 3 Reply 23, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 3110 times:
Quoting OttoPylit (Reply 5): I got to hand it to the Delta Care Team, though. These are volunteers, not getting paid any extra, who opt to go through specialized training just for this very type of scenario. Its something I know I probably would not have the patience or time to put in for it, but I give these folks my highest respect for being able to do so
Thanks for the information OttoPylit!
I'm curious to know (either if You know, or someone else, and I hope NOT from a personal visit) how these care agents/greif counseleors, etc. dispatched by the airline, are handled/viewed by the family members of the victims. Meaning, is there a general negative or positive view towards these volunteers? Obviously, an individual's reaction to a tragedy to trauma is unique, but I do wonder how effective the care agents are?
SQ452 From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 1053 posts, RR: 0 Reply 24, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 2644 times:
Quoting PillowTester (Reply 18): I think it's more creepy that you spent valuable time thinking about that, posting it on a forum, and that I spent valuable time reading it.
I actually only realized it when i was watching Fox news channel and they flashed the 3272 crash, and then the 5191. I have always been quick on math and I think outside the box and I notice odd stuff like that. So really...i didn't spend much time on it....I think I had that figured out maybe 30 seconds after the fox news segment....
Quoting SW733 (Reply 14): WOW, you need a girlfriend
Yah...but my ex loved this dorky side of me.
SIN > CVG > BOS
25 RyanAFAMSP: SW733, Thanks so much for the search. I knew that TW841 came into MSP, my home airport, but I didn't realize this was the flight number that also had
26 OttoPylit: Well, we can all agree the first reaction is to kill the messenger, and cause serious harm to anyone who tries to help in such a grief stricken situa
27 Ckfred: I don't remember the flight number, but the AA retired the number used by the MD-80 that crashed after landing at LIT in 1999. And I think UA retired
28 TWAL1011727: Comair's sunday flt is now OH9763/3SEP, it is valid for tomorrow only. DL has a schedule change on 06SEP and this flt has been changed/dropped totally
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