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| Quoting FlyingJhawk (Reply 3): I'd like to think that Captain was damn lucky that day wasn't worse than it was. Still....helluva way to end your career. |
| Quoting Max Q (Reply 4): He'd have been better off taking it into the air than trying to stop, with a tire failure it's much easier stopping at the beginning of the runway with it's whole length available after dumping fuel to a much lower weight. |
| Quoting flyingclrs727 (Reply 6): Why not continue the flight after taking off and checking out the plane? An emergency landing at HNL after burning off most of the fuel would have been safe. |
| Quoting flyingclrs727 (Reply 6): Why not continue the flight after taking off and checking out the plane? An emergency landing at HNL after burning off most of the fuel would have been safe. |
 Photo © Thomas Luce |  Photo © Thomas Luce |
| Quoting codc10 (Reply 8): Even in 1978 she was 20 years into her flight attendant career... truly remarkable! |
| Quoting D L X (Reply 10): That would mean she's been a flight attendant for nearly 60 years. Is that possible? Is she really pushing 90? |
| Quoting codc10 (Reply 8): As an aside, I'm not sure if the Santa Ana winds were blowing that day, or if noise abatement wasn't such a major issue in 1978, but I always noticed the easterly operation in use at LAX at the time of the accident. Somewhat unusual. |
| Quoting jsnww81 (Reply 15): Very unusual. It takes some pretty serious winds to get them to turn things around during the day (nighttime is a different story, of course.) In 1978, maybe the bar was lower as the screaming about airport noise was still building in those days. |
| Quoting A320FlyGuy (Reply 5): she was until recently the flight attendant with #1 in seniority at Continental |
| Quoting 747buff (Reply 13): I may be digressing from the topic but isn't "Fire Station 80 North" in the second pic where US 1493 came to rest? |
| Quoting flyingclrs727 (Reply 6): Why not continue the flight after taking off and checking out the plane? An emergency landing at HNL after burning off most of the fuel would have been safe. |
| Quoting trnswrld (Reply 14): Different cause of events, but this sort of reminds me of the TWA JFK L1011 accident. I think everyone survived that, but it was another RTO at high speed. |
| Quoting flyingclrs727 (Reply 6): Why not continue the flight after taking off and checking out the plane? An emergency landing at HNL after burning off most of the fuel would have been safe. |
| Quoting phatfarmlines (Reply 22): Nigeria Airways Flight 2120]Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 Source: Wikipedia |
| Quoting ADent (Reply 24): I have been on a flight with a blown tire on takeoff and we flew the flight and landed at the destination, albeit with Fire/Rescue waiting near the runway. |
| Quoting traindoc (Reply 1): it is amazing that there were only 2 fatalities |
| Quoting GARUDAROD (Reply 29): What is interesting is the first photo shows the plane with the RED "Meatball"' whilst the other two and the photos from the LAFD show it correctly with the Black "Meatball" |
| Quoting jsnww81 (Reply 15): Had the airport been operating on the usual westbound flow pattern that day, the DC10 may have gone off the end of 6L and down the slope onto Pershing Drive. The accident may have been much more serious then. |
| Quoting WA707atMSP (Reply 31): The reason widebody takeoffs were not allowed on the 7 / 25s is because the Sepulveda tunnel was not strong enough to absorb their weight. The tunnel was reinforced in the early 1980s, as part of the same pre-Olympics upgrade that added TBIT and T1, and the upper level roadway. |
| Quoting DarkSnowyNight (Reply 33): Really it would have plowed into the service road ditch first. That thing's pretty deep and wide. |
| Quoting jsnww81 (Reply 34): I've spoken with a few long-timers here in Playa del Rey who remember being able to see the smoke from their yards. |
| Quoting jsnww81 (Reply 34): Come to think of it, I'm not sure Pershing had been extended south in 1978. South of Manitoba Street it was a two-lane blacktop for most of the 1960s and 1970s that ran across what are now the remote TBIT stands and then cut down to Main Street in El Segundo. The current four-lane Pershing, with the cloverleaf flyover for World Way West, was built sometime in the 1970s, but I'm not sure when. |
| Quoting GARUDAROD (Reply 29): What is interesting is the first photo shows the plane with the RED "Meatball"' whilst the other two and the photos from the LAFD show it correctly with the Black "Meatball" |
| Quoting RRTrent (Reply 27): One thing I noticed from the photos is the windows are clearly made from shatter proof glass, like a car windscreen.... I never knew airplane windows were made of glass, I always presumed it was acrylic. |
| Quoting RRTrent (Reply 38): I was referring to the passenger windows... in the photos of the crash because they are broken, you can see that they are made from glass. |
| Quoting WA707atMSP (Reply 31): Had widebody takeoffs been allowed on the 7 / 25s when this crash occurred, there would have been an extra 2,000 feet of runway for the crew to work with. This could have enabled the aircraft to be stopped on the runway, instead of sliding off the end. |
| Quoting D L X (Reply 41): Was the plane aflame before it came to a stop? |
| Quoting SpaceshipDC10 (Reply 45): "As I recall, CO was using retreaded tires, a factor which contributed to the blowout. While not every airline used them, it was legal to do so, but after this accident the practice was discontinued. " |
