miketx
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The last time I flew it was Fort Worth to Ontario California to see my Dad in the early 90's. Coming back was terrifying. After we boarded we had to get off because something was wrong with the plane. We got back on another one and the pilot flew over a raging forest fire and the cabin filled with smoke. People were freaking out. The left side engine was making a noise like it had a bad bearing for the whole flight. Oh, yeah, it was a DC 9. I decided not to fly anymore after that. Lately I have started watching these crash videos on youtube and some of the pilots are truly amazing like the one in the Gimli Glider and Captain Sullenberger that ditched in the Hudson. However most of them don't end that way. Many are caused by pilot error, poor maintenance and some never do have the cause established. This 737 MAX is apparently a death trap because of the computer control system. Two of them nosedived into the ground because of discrepancies in the angle of attack indicators and the airspeed indicators. The system couldn't read the airspeed and kept trying to pull the nose up to slow down and finally somehow a stall warning come on and the horrid voice saying terrain pull up, terrain pull up! Killed them all in both planes. Two of them had the front of the left engine just explode. Turns out Southwest didn't want to spend the money to properly check the vanes.
I've seen hundreds and they are 99 percent horrible. The last one I saw was last night and it was a DC 8 fully loaded with people. The title was something like plane crashed immediately after take off. So I wondered what caused it. OMG! I could see when it started the take off roll what was gonna happen. The pilots did not have the flaps down and latter I they said the slots were not extended on the leading edge of the wings! Also the stupid bastards did not have the computers configured for take off. WTF? And these two idiots had thousands of hours in the air flying big jets. They experienced a longer then normal take off roll (wonder why? lol), the plane was sluggish and almost as soon as they lifted off the stall warning sounded. Straight down into the ground. To hell with that crap.
I've seen hundreds and they are 99 percent horrible. The last one I saw was last night and it was a DC 8 fully loaded with people. The title was something like plane crashed immediately after take off. So I wondered what caused it. OMG! I could see when it started the take off roll what was gonna happen. The pilots did not have the flaps down and latter I they said the slots were not extended on the leading edge of the wings! Also the stupid bastards did not have the computers configured for take off. WTF? And these two idiots had thousands of hours in the air flying big jets. They experienced a longer then normal take off roll (wonder why? lol), the plane was sluggish and almost as soon as they lifted off the stall warning sounded. Straight down into the ground. To hell with that crap.