Walt was a good man and good friend. He was much too ill to be flying that night but was afraid of losing his job if he refused. He didn’t deserve the betrayal and poverty he suffered before the crash. And I don’t care who reads this.
So many of these victims were at different stages of their lives. Many of them young adults, who presumably felt to have their whole lives ahead of them… you wonder what their last thoughts and their last words were. What they wished they would’ve done or said that they would never have the chance to again. Such an awful way to spend your sudden final seconds of human life on earth.
Awful. All those people. Especially the children. And the honchos over at Alaska who allowed this to happen ought to have, at the barest minimum, been jailed for life. You can only hope there's a hell waiting for them.
The distance from Albuquerque to Santa Fe is a bit over 60 miles, so that was a very short flight. However, interestingly enough, my first flight was around the same time on a TWA Martin 404 from Kansas City, Missouri's old Downtown Airport to Topeka, Kansas, also a distance of a bit over 60 miles. I left Kansas City years ago and currently live in ... Albuquerque, New Mexico.
After the first CAB report was released, with basically implied that CAPT Spong had committed suicide and taken the rest with him, his widow was the subject of harassing and malicious phone calls. His young son was bullied at school to the point that he developed an ulcer. Thank goodness that the third CAB report cleared the captain....it should not have taken five years.
I really like your videos. Finally, a human face and also a bit of background on not only the flight crew as most air crash videos do and maybe if a passenger was famous or infamous, but you paying homage to all that lost their lives is very sad but like I said, gives a human face and their story. It's always very sad when anyone loses their life while flying, it has to be one of the scariest things people could ever encounter, especially if an airplane is at 15,000 feet or more in the air and the plane tumbles towards earth, in a spin. Absolutely horrendous what these people go through the last minutes or seconds of their lives, but to also see babies and small children makes me more ill. I have read accounts of people being sole survivors of air crashes and almost all of them say how it's usually "dead quiet" (pardon the expression) for the most part right before a crash. Passengers are quiet. That's very eerie to hear that. I wonder if it's partly shock, or disbelief or prayer, or the thoughts of loved ones. I hate to say this, but please keep posting these videos. Unfortunately, there have been many crashes, but I think your videos are important. I don't see anyone doing what you do. It must take a lot of work & research. But thank you for bringing humanity among the twisted, strewn metal wreckage of an air crash thar most videos only show.
Thank you for this. The reason I do these is because, like you said, no one else has done something like it. To see a number is one thing, but to see the faces, names, ages, and stories really puts a toll on a tragedy.
Beautiful tribute😢❤ My heart was torn seeing a baby as young as 6 months being taken from this world😭😭🤍🤍🤍I can’t imagine how his parents must of felt in those last few moments 😭😭😭😭
I knew an individual, who passed away not that long ago, who as about a 10-year-old child, actually witnessed this TWA Constellation out of control very close to his home. He saw the "Connie" at a steep angle approaching with its lights on and then simply flew into the ground and exploded. The crash site was only a few blocks from his parent's house. He told me of some of the horrors his dad and he saw shortly after the crash in terms of the actual victims. I myself was just short of being four years old when this tragic event occurred, and I can somewhat remember seeing the black and white photos of the crash on the back page of a section of the Chicago Tribune not to mention some of the local television coverage. It's so heartbreaking seeing all the photos of the victims. Thank you for sharing this.
Rest in Heavenly Peace to all those lost on TWA 529⚰️🪦 💐 🕊️ ✝️. To all of the grieving 😞 relatives, I offer you my deepest sympathies and condolences. You don’t grieve alone. Can you do the crash of Canadian Pacific 402 (March 4 1966) next?
It's great that you are remembering them as people, not just statistics. One correction: The Hermans were celebrating their anniversary the day of the incident, NOT the "accident"!
PV102 originated that morning in Moncton, NB. The route was Moncton - Summerside - Charlottetown - New Glasgow - Halifax - Sydney - Deer Lake - Gander - St. John’s.
