The Farrell's Ice Cream Shop Plane Crash 

Image blinking, and your entire extended family is gone forever. Absolutely tragic.

Im glad the pilot didnt try to deny his fault and sounds genuinely sorry when he was pulled out of the wreckage.

One thing not covered in this video is the impact this had on the Farrell family. They were so heartbroken by the deaths that they shut down all 4 locations, and walked away from the ice cream business. I had been to a different location as a child before the accident. Farrells was more than just ice cream. They had a player piano in each location, and a candy store that made Willy Wonka jealous. It was truly fantastic.

I can't imagine what it must be like for the 8 year old boy who lost his parents, brothers, sister and more family members. Heartbreaking.

I got an idea for the next video: The Hamlet Chicken Processing Plant Fire. Basically a chicken processing plant caught fire, and the doors were locked.

Yes that is crazy one minute you're eating ice cream and the next minute a F-86 Super Sabrer jet is sitting in your lap.

Who the hell thought is was a good idea to put any sort of infrastructure, (especially something like an ice cream shop where families would gather) directly in line with the end of a runway? That should never have been allowed.

To lose 9 close family members in one tragic accident and your the only survivor is one of the worst nightmare situations imaginable.. If it was me I'd be so mad that I was the only one who lived. It only seems natural to probably not want to live and join all your family members.. That's beyond tragic

I attended the NTSB hearings on this crash. Some facts… a flight instructor who had military F86 flight time had been “assigned” to get Bingham up-to-speed in the F86. This was done hurriedly and woefully inadequately. The instructor made some comments that are on record. First, he said the F86 is not an airplane in the strictest sense of the word. What was it? “A high performance gun platform.” When asked on record if he felt Bingham was qualified to fly the F86 he stated: “if I had had anything to say about it I wouldn’t have let that man within a hundred yards of that aircraft.” I heard this first hand; I was twenty feet away. Bingham was a hotdog flier; he was later killed in an accident carelessly flying into a mountain. Incidentally, don’t discount the sprinkler system. It put the fire out effectively saving many lives. Most of those killed were the result of the impact of the jet into the building, not the fire. I was on the scene minutes after the crash. All of this is in the NTSB final report. Instead of a lot of moronic conjecture about this and that it’d be nice if people would get some facts before they babble in comments.

I remember that day. I was suppose to meet my Cousin there for her B-day We got stuck in traffic on 99 south. We got about 2 blocks away when it hit. My cousin and her family were nearest the back counter when the plane hit (from her account) but her family got out with only minor injuries other than the smoke and heat. They didn't breath to good after that due to the jet fuel. We didn't know it was Farrells until we got closer. By then we couldn't even get close enough to find out if they were ok. That took almost a week to find out. They didn't release any info pending all the bodies and well everything. That was a horrifying day for everyone ..

Farrel's was an absolute treat for me and all of my friends as a child. This happened before I was born (1975) but my parents told me a Farrels' had burned down in the past but not how. I wasn't even aware the one that burned was in a different city. The one I went to was in Reseda. This was fascinating to see come into my feed. I feel so sorry for all of those lost in that place in a moment of joy. What a horrible tragedy.

5:30 Man... The look in that boy's eyes look a lot like the look in many pictures of soldiers' eyes during the world wars.

Things like this remind you that every moment can be your last. Live your life to the fullest.

I'm sorry, 3 hours of stick time in a fighter jet and he thought he could take off on a half-length runway in the middle of a city? Dude was delusional

There was another plane crash in front of a Farrell's. This was in Torrance. In fact, one photo used in this video appears to be from that incident.

Pilot had no business flying that day. You can't compensate money to skill. He didn't even know how to handle his plane correctly. The fact litigation took four years is insane

Dying from buring alive is one of the worst ways to die, so when many of the victims are kids its difficult to come to terms with it. That said, their senses would be overloaded much more quickly than an adult leading to uncounciousness, I guess that is the only saving grace in this story.

Where that ice cream parlor used to be is now a firefighter district headquarters.....I live down the street from here

Sometimes I think my life is crap, then I hear those stories and it's just outrageous

I remember going there a lot when I was a kid. Would have been somewhere in the San Jose, CA area. I remember loving the candy store, my brother and I would always get the "grab bag" of misc parts and pieces of broken candy. My family is gone now and these memories are priceless!!!

I had my 5th birthday at a Farrells in Atlanta in 1975. Loved that place but this is tragic. 😢

I grew up in Sacramento a couple miles away when this occurred. The Farrell’s closed down, and that shopping center had a lot of vacancies afterwards. The Crossrosds mall is still there, though, with the flagship store being the Corti Brothers market on the other end of the mall (at least I think it’s still there). The Executive Airport is a commercial airport for small planes. The Sacramento Metropolitan Airport is the international airport located several miles to the north.

How horrible all those poor people. I can't imagine what they went through.

I lived in the neighborhood behind that shopping center from about 1982-1984. I knew little about the crash site until I was a teenager in the 90's. Back when I lived there the Goodyear Blimp then the Fuji blimp docked over there at the Bing Maloney Golf Course side of the airport. That golf course is also the site of another tragedy years later where a golfer and his little girl were crushed by a falling tree. The little girl perished.

This has to be one of the most tragic accidents

I dont think i would want to live if i lost 9 family members such a horrible fate

I don't know how you aren't a news anchor or a narrator for History Channel docs. Your voice is perfect for it

My great uncle fought in the Korean War and he told me about how they would see f-86 super sabre firing cannons and firing rockets on Chinese and North Korean soldiers.

Do you think you can possibly do a video of the 2022 Wings Over Dallas mid-air collision?

Why do they build buildings literally at the end of a runway?

This was so tragic, because people were just enjoying a day. Eating ice cream, hanging out with friends and family….😢😢

sounds like one of those disney land horror stories

Farrell’s was great when I was young. It was an experience to go there.

2:05 He calls it a high powered Sabre.......but actually it is relatively under powered as fighter aircraft go. When you read about the accident investigation they say that for the F-86 when you first lift off the runway you have to climb at a shallow angle in order to gain airspeed. This pilot had flown the aircraft many times before but for some reason on this flight he tried to climb at too steep of an angle......and the aircraft could not gain airspeed. How do you explain something like that? 2,000 hours as a pilot and yet he forgot one of the basics....airspeed management.

The greed of city planning and permitting departments. Ends of runways should never be developed. But those sweet, sweet potential tax dollars are just too tempting.

My heart hurts for all the people who died in the crash, and for those who lost family. I'm especially sad for the child who would have been eight at the time who lost all those relatives. I can't even begin to imagine what that child (now adult) had to live with! But speaking of living with things, I hope that pilot lived (or lives) every single day with what he caused, and the lives he shattered. No court in the land could hand down a better punishment than him having to live with this. Shame on him for flying with so little experience in that aircraft, and on the instructor who just "assumed" the pilot would get more training.

I am appalled at the newscaster interviewing a child still in shock who should have been with medical and who doesn't even know where his mother is yet. That's disgusting.

I was there. I remember it like it was yesterday. I lived on Ashland Way about 1,000' yards from the end of that runway. I was there with my father. As much as I love aviation, this day is seared into my memory. Sacramento Country Fire is in that building now, I think. With 4 hours of stick time for Bingham, there is no reason he should have been behind the windscreen of that jet. NO REASON. There's a special place in hell for stupid people. RIP for those lost. You are remembered. I say a prayer for you all every time I go past the airport which is often. -PhantomF4G

Thank you for sharing, I've heard stories from family and friends and had a coworker who was there that day as a child.

during the whole takeoff i was thinking ' flaps , flaps " you see that so many times on these videos .

We lived just down the road from this place when I was a baby. My a mom used to take me and my brother to this place

I had my 5th birthday at the Farrell's in Torrance in 1978. Fun place to eat. I can't imagine what those families went through.

May they rest in peace and may the injured and all that involved fined peace. Thank you.

As I hear about what happened in this accident I'd like to send my sincere condolences to all the families , friends and community 💯 . This may be an old story but no matter how old or long ago this may have happened it brings tears to my eyes knowing that women , children and men passed away in this accident may all those victims rest in peace and to the survivors I'm truly sorry for your loss. I know words can't bring anyone's loved ones back but I am truly sorry for this accident !!! 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🇺🇸💯😇🙏🫶😭

This one hurts especially badly. 😢

I remember hearing about this as a kid. Every time I went to Farrells for a birthday party or whatever, I watched the guys running around with the stretcher full of ice cream while a fire engine siren played and thought "This would be a perfect time for a jet to burst through the doors." Some adult at the party would ask "Why are you staring off into space? What are you thinking of?" I'd imagine that jet coming through a wall, fiery fuel going everywhere and reply "Nothing. Everything's fine." ( Deep Thoughts with Jack Handey )

As Sacramento grew and air travel became more popular, concerns started mounting over the location of (what is now) Sacramento Executive Airport near downtown. The new major Sacramento Airport had opened just five years prior, way outside of town in the farmlands. The region has continued to grow, and now that airport, too, is close to being surrounded by homes and businesses.

There is NO way that pilot is 36 lol. I’m 36 and that guy looks like he’s in his late 50s 😂

I used to live in the neighborhood where this happened, I remember my neighbor telling me that there were a lot of safety incidents at the airport over the years that went unreported.

I remember going to Farrell's in Fresno when I was a kid in the 70s. They used to have a huge bowl of ice cream called the ZOO, I can still remember people trying to eat that thing. Sorry to here such a tragic story to something that held great memories.

This particular F-86 model, MK5, was the hottest, most maneuverable F-86 variant of all due to wing modifications including removal of the slatted leading edge. This came at the cost of high landing speeds and poor low speed flying characteristics [which is why they were forced to land hot compared to other Sabers], also made them prone to stalling at AOA's that other models handled. The next and last model, MK6, put the leading edge slats back on, so this model was in essence a failed experiment [which was copied from the US F-86F, essentially the same aircraft]]. Of course, anyone piloting this aircraft would have and should have known this, this was the last plane that a guy with 4 hours cockpit time should have been taking off from on a short runway. Once his nose was past a certain angle, it was over. It stalled, and no chance to recover, no chance to abort. If he would have kept the nose down and went to full power, would have been dangerously low over the fence but he would not have stalled and likely would have cleared the building.

Idk man, I don't think we need air shows.

Don't believe for a second he felt a vibration. Dude was making shit up about an aircraft failure to keep some heat off himself

2,000 hours of flight time and 4 hours in this plane? That's basically nothing. I have over 50,000 hours of experience playing video games, I would not ever consider myself a professional at any competitive game in 4 hours, and he chose to do something crazy high risk like this as a complete novice?

Soon as I saw him lift the nose that High of an Angle I said thats too much… I’m glad said help everyone else… RIP to the victims especially the Babies! 🕊️

The location is now the City of Sacramento's Police and Fire Headquarters known as the Public Safety Center

My oldest sister was there and left Farrell's about 15 minutes before the crash. If she would have stayed for one more soda, she could have died or been severely injured. Someone above was looking out for her that day. God rest all of the poor souls and innocent children who died that day. 🙏 💔

Farrells, Farrells fun at Farrells, Farrells Icecream Parlor.. Was their theme song.

At the time, KSAC had three intersecting runways, and 12/30 was the shortest of the three. I can't imagine why they didn't use 20 for a jet departure, which is the normal default runway. That happened before my time, but the effects still linger. Today that shopping center is used for city and county offices.

Dark records 😬😬😬 are you going to do the Francis Scott Bridge next now that happened

Should look into an Air Force F-102 crash as part of opening day celebration of the Seattle World's Fair in 1962, where the engine had failed, the pilot attempted a ditch into Lk Washington near Lk Forest Park, ejected but the jet flew further and crashed into a Mountlake Terrace neighborhood destroying several homes and vehicles, killing an elderly couple. Another family(on vacation) got screwed by AF with only a week of temporary housing at Paine Field and no compensation for all their losses.

I remember that crash. I was in that Farrells the day before.

Why would do they put commercial buildings right next to the runways runoff?

And you totally forgot to say WHERE this was.... which, btw, was Sacramento, CA.

I should stop watching these videos at night 🙄

If we correctly interpret what you say, then the guy who flew the jet was 10 years in storage. You need to be more careful with how you say things, dude.

Ferell’s was the biggest casualty from the pandemic 😔💔

WTF would you put buildings at the end of a runway?

Absolutely horrifying and heartbreaking situation. 💔 😢😢😢

Loving all of the new videos!

Remember this day well.

How on earth did the pilot get certified to fly a plane he had only had three and a half hours of flight time in? You can't even get a driver's license with just 3.5 hours behind the wheel!

You better hope on that Baltimore bridge video right now sir

Can you do the Baltimore Key Bridge disaster in the near future?

yo, can you do a mini documentary on the andorinha building fire? pretty tragic stuff, i tell you

Chicago Executive airport has apartments with hundreds of people at the end of their runway! For some reason it’s an epidemic unfortunately!

I hate how crash reports make a big deal about “low time” in the airplane. It’s such a lame excuse, and they use the “low time as an excuse. Every single pilot out there is going to have low time” comment regarding a new aircraft…they’re learning to fly it dumb ass! It doesn’t matter what type of plane it is, the first time you step into the cockpit you have 0 hours in that plane. Just because this guy had 4 hours in the plane doesn’t really mean anything. Everyone that’s ever flown that type of plane, at some point also had 4 hours in it. They need to focus on the fact that he had 2,000+ hours of flying experience and made a mistake. Not 4hrs and made a mistake. With 2,000+ hours, regardless of airplane type, he knew better then to try and take it back up in the air. At 2,000+ hrs, he had the knowledge of aborting being the smarter choice. 2,000 hours or 4 hours, it doesn’t matter. When we learned to fly, on lesson 1 or 2 we learn it’s ok to abort our take off if something doesn’t feel right.

I’m always driving past the small airport. I’ve never heard of this 😮😢😢

Has any airshow ever ended in a good way?

This whole time I thought air planes had emergency brakes in their landing/ takeoff wheels...

I live about 2 miles from this intersection ... its hard to imagine that happening

Not to make light of things but this sounds like a accident in a cartoon. Look out that planes heading for the puppy and fireworks factory!

What consequences did the pilot end up facing? Did he go to jail, or what? (I don’t know how these things work, am just curious)

Another day of Dark History Posting Another day to be worried

There was a Farrell's in California where an old couple accidentally ran their car into a line of people, injuring like 6 people and killing 1 in 2014 and it was closed down after that.

Nice Video!

Well who the hell goes to an ice cream shop at the end of a runway and thinks nothing about it? NEVER congregate anywhere near a runway or flight path.

Shops so close to a runway and right in front of one, is an idiotic idea

I actually live right down the road from this place, its a police station of sorts now, on the side though is a small memorial with a list of all the victims

Those around ce cream parlor sprinklers would be capable of putting out an ice cream cake topped with birthday candles, but not an errant jet airplane with a load of fuel…… Those poor children and their families and friends!! Restaurant staff, car drivers nearby, and responding personnel and citizens…

I miss Farrells ice cream.

6:51 proof of time travel. That man’s sunglasses are not from his time. Lol

I remember my parents telling me about this crash in Sacramento when I was a little kid bc we lived here and it was one of the worst air crashes because of the loss of children. 😢

I ate there a couple of times. What a terrible tragedy. This is why i loathe air shows!

Oh My, you go to eat an ice cream with your family and most of them perish in few seconds. Horrific.

The kid who lost most of his family is going to be fucked up for life. That's horrible.

How utterly crazy to allow a restaurant to sit at the end of a runway, even if across a road, especially if pilots in vintage aircraft use it.

Have you thought about doing a video on the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash? That crash killed an entire professional hockey team.

So sad 😢😢

Wow! That's rough! They were hanging out having ice cream as a family!😢