It was a beautiful holiday weekend in Chicago and the sunny skies gave no indication of the horror that was about to take place. Memorial services were held. About 10 seconds later, at a height of around 300 feet, the aircraft began to bank to the left, first slightly, then sharply.
Something had happened. “I’m not going to get on that plane.”What Gonzales had been reading about the DC-10 was not crap. The jet’s wings leveled as it climbed to a few hundred feet. The crash occurred while the entire cockpit crew was preoccupied with a burnt-out landing gear indicator light. Including his friends. Minutes later, it crashed. That would be a … Evil is alive in the swamps of Alabama and only Phaedra can defeat it.Horror Lurks in a Haunted Hospital in the Swamps of AlabamaA psychologist learns it will take more than psychology to save her town.Amidst the beauty and splendor of antebellum mansions and historic homesteads lie haunting secrets of the pastMore than History Lurks in the Shadow of Chattanooga. The worst airline disaster in American history occurred May 25, 1979 when American Airlines Flight 191 carrying 258 passengers and a crew of 13 fell from the sky killing all 271 people onboard. The plane was unable to maintain lift and crashed into a trailer park 4,600 feet from the end of the runway. If you are looking for a little horror, this is the place.
My boss looked at me like I was crazy. The NTSB initially ruled that the presence of an unauthorized vehicle on the runway caused the pilots to go around and stall. He spotted the half-collapsed husk of one of Flight 191’s engines, the silver and white of the turbine charred black. Look at him,” Rucker said.Alarms now clanged in the cockpit as Dillard struggled desperately to bring the DC-10 back to level.As the plane plunged downward, it kept rotating — past the point of perpendicular, 112 degrees now — toward a sickening almost belly-up position.Just 4,600 feet past the runway’s edge, Flight 191 vanished into the ground, replaced by a 100-foot orange-black fireball billowing up.“We all smoked dope and wore jeans,” recalls Standish, another in that group. The pilots and the flight engineer, two of 10 flight attendants, and 96 of 163 passengers died; 75 passengers and crew survived. But he wasn’t thinking about that now, nor the flight that moved past overhead, just south of him, big enough, it seemed, to reach out and touch. Real ghost stories, haunted trips, demonic tales, and creepy fiction litter these dark pages. However, three years after the accident, the NTSB reopened the investigation when it was revealed the person believed to be the driver of the vehicle had left the airport 15 minutes before the crash.
Look at this!” he shouted to others in the control room, his voice captured on his headset radio. On August 2, 1985, the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar operating Flight 191 encountered a microburst while on approach to land at DFW.
So what ever it was it must have been paranormal. As they were on approach, a severe thunderstorm lay between them and the runway. “We were pushing for harder stories and pushing against Vietnam and [pressing for articles about] the sexual revolution and a lot of social and cultural issues that all of us in our early to mid-20s believed in.” Shel, he says, “would just look at us like, Gonzales arrived as a 24-year-old staff writer in 1972, the year Shel became managing editor, and climbed the ladder to become articles editor. Yet it came on beside me when I was at the next sink. When I saw flight 191, I thought this was Delta 191 at DFW in the 80’s. Oh, you gave me chills. Only the janitor was in there with me.
Delta Air Lines flight 191 was flying from Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport to LAX with a stop in Dallas. No delay.”The turbofan shriek grew louder and the aircraft nudged forward. The Ghost Research Society was the very first paranormal group to ever investigate and visit the crash site of Flight 191 in late June of 1979. She was alive.Metal shards and flames had leveled one of the trailers, and Gonzales spotted a massive piece of the fuselage, taller than he was, in the middle of the street.A police car pulled up near him. She felt a wave of shock, panic, disbelief, nausea, “like I was going insane,” she says. The stigma of flight 191 has lead many airlines to not schedule a flight 191.N574PR (Photo provided by RuthAS (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons)Of the 20 people onboard, five were killed including the two crewmembers. She was atill in the bath and she hearc this scratching noise on the bathroom door. They would be wondering if she was on the flight. The left wingtip hit the ground first and the sound of tearing metal was followed by a massive explosion. They called in about seeing odd, bobbing white lights in the field where the aircraft had gone down. More important to her, she was not going as a plus-one of her beloved Shel, who, as managing editor of Thus, the gentle encouragement of her friend Christine Newman over the phone that Thursday night: “You should go.” Newman would be there. )They were married within two years. A microburst is a weather phenomenon that causes an increase in headwind, slowing an aircraft down, severe downdraft, which pushes the aircraft towards the ground, then, a strong tailwind pushing the aircraft forward.
In a frozen corner of a park at an intersection in Des Plaines, he stood blowing into his hands before a knee-high wall made of bricks, each of which bore a name — his friends, some of them. This was too important.
When I came back from looking for more chairs they were stacked on top of another. I went into that field with someone else -- a newly licensed nurse -- late at night about 90 days after the crash.