Challenger: The Final Flight (Netflix)
https://youtu.be/ILAeVAgqFV4Excellent 4-parter about the Challenger shuttle disaster. I think it should be required viewing for anyone at Boeing. It’s a cautionary tale about how cutting corners.
For many Gen-Xers and Xennials like me this was our “where were you?” moment...like Race remembering where he was when Lincoln was assassinated.
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I sometims wonder how terrifying it was for @RaceBannon during the bubonic plague. This is why he laughs off Covid. The Vid is the Black Deaths bitch.
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Please tell me this was intentional. If so, I want to subscribe to your newsletter. Gold, Jerry! GOLD!Doog_de_Jour said:https://youtu.be/ILAeVAgqFV4
Excellent 4-parter about the Challenger shuttle disaster. I think it should be required viewing for anyone at Boeing. It’s a cautionary tale about how cutting corners.
For many Gen-Xers and Xennials like me this was our “where were you?” moment...like Race remembering where he was when Lincoln was assassinated. -
Race was doorbelling for Stephen DouglasDoog_de_Jour said:https://youtu.be/ILAeVAgqFV4
Excellent 4-parter about the Challenger shuttle disaster. I think it should be required viewing for anyone at Boeing. It’s a cautionary tale about how cutting corners.
For many Gen-Xers and Xennials like me this was our “where were you?” moment...like Race remembering where he was when Lincoln was assassinated. -
I get that the Challenger disaster has more of a burned-in-memory significance, but Boeing definitely outdid this with the 737 MAX killing 346 people.Doog_de_Jour said:https://youtu.be/ILAeVAgqFV4
Excellent 4-parter about the Challenger shuttle disaster. I think it should be required viewing for anyone at Boeing. It’s a cautionary tale about how cutting corners.
For many Gen-Xers and Xennials like me this was our “where were you?” moment...like Race remembering where he was when Lincoln was assassinated.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/737-max-crashes-killed-346-were-horrific-culmination-failures-boeing-n1240192DeFazio said the House committee chose to release the report following its 18-month investigation to “spotlight not only on the broken safety culture at Boeing but also the gaps in the regulatory system at the FAA that allowed this fatally-flawed plane into service.”
The committee's statement said its 239-page report, with more than 70 investigative findings, reveals “repeated and serious failures” by both Boeing and the FAA.
The report claims that Boeing made “extensive efforts to cut costs” due to financial pressure and refused to slow its 737 Max production line, jeopardizing safety. -
go back a little further and a repair to a pressure bulkhead on the tail section of a JAL 747 killed more.
The details of that are disgusting. I knew some folks involved in that one. -
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What I remember of the Challenger going down was the inappropriate jokes that came out. You do not want to be working in an engineering department when tragedy strikes.
Similar to the humor on this site.
#TooSoon? is what I remember. -
Ha! Good catch. For my side hustle (you know, when I’m not at the brothel), I do a lot of proofreading and writing...so it makes zero sense I miss that kind of shit, but here we are.1to392831weretaken said:
Please tell me this was intentional. If so, I want to subscribe to your newsletter. Gold, Jerry! GOLD!Doog_de_Jour said:https://youtu.be/ILAeVAgqFV4
Excellent 4-parter about the Challenger shuttle disaster. I think it should be required viewing for anyone at Boeing. It’s a cautionary tale about how cutting corners.
For many Gen-Xers and Xennials like me this was our “where were you?” moment...like Race remembering where he was when Lincoln was assassinated. -
Remember any?LebamDawg said:What I remember of the Challenger going down was the inappropriate jokes that came out. You do not want to be working in an engineering department when tragedy strikes.
Similar to the humor on this site.
#TooSoon? is what I remember. -
I wish all MY mistakes actually made things better.Doog_de_Jour said:
Ha! Good catch. For my side hustle (you know, when I’m not at the brothel), I do a lot of proofreading and writing...so it makes zero sense I miss that kind of shit, but here we are.1to392831weretaken said:
Please tell me this was intentional. If so, I want to subscribe to your newsletter. Gold, Jerry! GOLD!Doog_de_Jour said:https://youtu.be/ILAeVAgqFV4
Excellent 4-parter about the Challenger shuttle disaster. I think it should be required viewing for anyone at Boeing. It’s a cautionary tale about how cutting corners.
For many Gen-Xers and Xennials like me this was our “where were you?” moment...like Race remembering where he was when Lincoln was assassinated. -
Christa McAuliffe was an actual teacher as I recall. I just did a search of the crew and she was one of two women on board.
I was running Seattle ops out of a Sears warehouse in the SoDo district and actually watched it on a bank of TVs in a Sears store just like the movies -
I was a sophomore in high school, sitting in my geometry class. Our class clown was listening to the radio in the back of the class. He broke the news to everyone and we all laughed at him not believing a word. A few minutes later, a couple of teachers came in to see if we had a TV in our classroom so that they could watch the news. I really followed the news and the investigation that followed the Challenger accident. I was very much fascinated with space and looked up to astronauts at that time.
@LebamDawg, thanks for the info on JAL 123. I didn't remember that crash. Even back then, I was an aviation geek and my brothers and I would talk about airplanes, crashes, etc. I watched a Youtube video on that crash and it was sobering. The flight crew did their best, but the plane was just uncontrollable. Amazingly, there are a couple of grainy pictures of that plane with its vertical stabilizer missing.
Some of the passengers also took pictures that were recovered. All the oxygen masks were deployed and there was a flight attendant talking to some passengers a few rows ahead. There was also a picture of the trailing edge of the right wing. The plane was till in straight-and-level flight at that point. -
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Know what NASA stands for? Need Another Seven Astronautsbiak1 said:
Remember any?LebamDawg said:What I remember of the Challenger going down was the inappropriate jokes that came out. You do not want to be working in an engineering department when tragedy strikes.
Similar to the humor on this site.
#TooSoon? is what I remember.
Christa McAulliffe was an English teacher. She's history now
Those were within 5 hours of the blow up -
Was nursing a horrific hangover housesitting for my grandparents.
Having lived through MLK Jr and RFKs assassinations, didn’t shake me much. Assumed risk of the profession.
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I foresee this thread quickly being hijacked.PurpleThrobber said:Was nursing a horrific hangover housesitting for my grandparents.
Having lived through MLK Jr and RFKs assassinations, didn’t shake me much. Assumed risk of the profession.
The second airliner into the tower left a much more lasting sense of grief and loss.
But I remember seeing the second plane hit while in the break room at work and I thought it was just a replay of the first plane. I must've asked about 15 people if it was a replay and nobody could get out any words. That entire day is burned in to my memory. I'll know when the dementia has set in when I forget the looks on everyone's faces as they watched the tv. -
The start of the first Gulf War for some reason was more emotionally impactful than either the Challenger disaster or 9/11. I was in middle school at the time and I watched CNN nonstop to see what was going on.BleachedAnusDawg said:
I foresee this thread quickly being hijacked.PurpleThrobber said:Was nursing a horrific hangover housesitting for my grandparents.
Having lived through MLK Jr and RFKs assassinations, didn’t shake me much. Assumed risk of the profession.
The second airliner into the tower left a much more lasting sense of grief and loss.
But I remember seeing the second plane hit while in the break room at work and I thought it was just a replay of the first plane. I must've asked about 15 people if it was a replay and nobody could get out any words. That entire day is burned in to my memory. I'll know when the dementia has set in when I forget the looks on everyone's faces as they watched the tv. -
That was kicksss TV. After growing up watching the nightly death count during Vietnam, GW1 was a welcome conquest.Doog_de_Jour said:
The start of the first Gulf War for some reason was more emotionally impactful than either the Challenger disaster or 9/11. I was in middle school at the time and I watched CNN nonstop to see what was going on.BleachedAnusDawg said:
I foresee this thread quickly being hijacked.PurpleThrobber said:Was nursing a horrific hangover housesitting for my grandparents.
Having lived through MLK Jr and RFKs assassinations, didn’t shake me much. Assumed risk of the profession.
The second airliner into the tower left a much more lasting sense of grief and loss.
But I remember seeing the second plane hit while in the break room at work and I thought it was just a replay of the first plane. I must've asked about 15 people if it was a replay and nobody could get out any words. That entire day is burned in to my memory. I'll know when the dementia has set in when I forget the looks on everyone's faces as they watched the tv.
Did the young @Doog_de_Jour discover her womanhood through fantasies of Arthur Kent, the scud stud?
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Awwwwww yeah.PurpleThrobber said:
That was kicksss TV. After growing up watching the nightly death count during Vietnam, GW1 was a welcome conquest.Doog_de_Jour said:
The start of the first Gulf War for some reason was more emotionally impactful than either the Challenger disaster or 9/11. I was in middle school at the time and I watched CNN nonstop to see what was going on.BleachedAnusDawg said:
I foresee this thread quickly being hijacked.PurpleThrobber said:Was nursing a horrific hangover housesitting for my grandparents.
Having lived through MLK Jr and RFKs assassinations, didn’t shake me much. Assumed risk of the profession.
The second airliner into the tower left a much more lasting sense of grief and loss.
But I remember seeing the second plane hit while in the break room at work and I thought it was just a replay of the first plane. I must've asked about 15 people if it was a replay and nobody could get out any words. That entire day is burned in to my memory. I'll know when the dementia has set in when I forget the looks on everyone's faces as they watched the tv.
Did the young @Doog_de_Jour discover her womanhood through fantasies of Arthur Kent, the scud stud?
Raawwwwwrrrrrrrr. -
ISWYDTBleachedAnusDawg said:
I foresee this thread quickly being hijacked.
But I remember seeing the second plane hit while in the break room at work and I thought it was just a replay of the first plane. I must've asked about 15 people if it was a replay and nobody could get out any words. That entire day is burned in to my memory. I'll know when the dementia has set in when I forget the looks on everyone's faces as they watched the tv.
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For the Challenger explosion, I was in Jr. High but wasn’t in a class that had a TV on. I think maybe that was only in the science classes. I heard about it after the fact during our next break.
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I never realized how damn old you are.PurpleThrobber said:Was nursing a horrific hangover housesitting for my grandparents.
Having lived through MLK Jr and RFKs assassinations, didn’t shake me much. Assumed risk of the profession.
The second airliner into the tower left a much more lasting sense of grief and loss. -
The two I remember:LebamDawg said:
Know what NASA stands for? Need Another Seven Astronautsbiak1 said:
Remember any?LebamDawg said:What I remember of the Challenger going down was the inappropriate jokes that came out. You do not want to be working in an engineering department when tragedy strikes.
Similar to the humor on this site.
#TooSoon? is what I remember.
Christa McAulliffe was an English teacher. She's history now
Those were within 5 hours of the blow up
Ocean Spray is the new official drink of NASA.
What were Christa McAulliffe’s last words? What does this button do?
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I was supposed to go on a training flight on 9/11. Saw it all happening on TV and called the base. They were already locked down all flights cancelled. I just remember sitting on my couch, watching the towers fall, and thinking fuck me, I'm going to war. Hard to explain exactly what that feels like, when you know you are going to go blow people up in the next year. Felt sort of like I was dreaming. Me and a bunch of other pilots went out that night and got absolutely shit house drunk, because what else are you going to do when you figure out you might be heading off to die soon?BleachedAnusDawg said:
I foresee this thread quickly being hijacked.PurpleThrobber said:Was nursing a horrific hangover housesitting for my grandparents.
Having lived through MLK Jr and RFKs assassinations, didn’t shake me much. Assumed risk of the profession.
The second airliner into the tower left a much more lasting sense of grief and loss.
But I remember seeing the second plane hit while in the break room at work and I thought it was just a replay of the first plane. I must've asked about 15 people if it was a replay and nobody could get out any words. That entire day is burned in to my memory. I'll know when the dementia has set in when I forget the looks on everyone's faces as they watched the tv. -
@RaceBannon and I marched in Selma, AL.CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
I never realized how damn old you are.PurpleThrobber said:Was nursing a horrific hangover housesitting for my grandparents.
Having lived through MLK Jr and RFKs assassinations, didn’t shake me much. Assumed risk of the profession.
The second airliner into the tower left a much more lasting sense of grief and loss.
MLK JR pulled some fine trim.
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another one I remembered
I think Sally Ride was on the Challenger also
Sally Ride had blue eyes - one blew that way and one blew the other -
My morning was similar. Came home from PT that morning and was getting ready when I saw the news. My boss called to see where I was and told me Fort Carson was locked down. Every single car was searched. He told me we weren’t going anywhere immediately and to stay home. Unfortunately for me, I had already dropped my kid off at daycare that morning and apparently you’re not allowed to leaves kids in daycare over night.Swaye said:
I was supposed to go on a training flight on 9/11. Saw it all happening on TV and called the base. They were already locked down all flights cancelled. I just remember sitting on my couch, watching the towers fall, and thinking fuck me, I'm going to war. Hard to explain exactly what that feels like, when you know you are going to go blow people up in the next year. Felt sort of like I was dreaming. Me and a bunch of other pilots went out that night and got absolutely shit house drunk, because what else are you going to do when you figure out you might be heading off to die soon?BleachedAnusDawg said:
I foresee this thread quickly being hijacked.PurpleThrobber said:Was nursing a horrific hangover housesitting for my grandparents.
Having lived through MLK Jr and RFKs assassinations, didn’t shake me much. Assumed risk of the profession.
The second airliner into the tower left a much more lasting sense of grief and loss.
But I remember seeing the second plane hit while in the break room at work and I thought it was just a replay of the first plane. I must've asked about 15 people if it was a replay and nobody could get out any words. That entire day is burned in to my memory. I'll know when the dementia has set in when I forget the looks on everyone's faces as they watched the tv.
