Does anyone remember this airline incident?

The late 1970's and 1980's were a horrible time for air travel.

American Airlines DC-10 crash in Chicago right before take off in 1979.

Pan Am flight 103 blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.

This flight mentioned in the op's video in 1988.

United Airlines flight 811 to Australia in 1989 where the fuselage door gets blown out and sucks out passengers through the resulting hole.

Tenerife, Spain runway crash in the Canary Islands in 1977.

Japan Airlines flight 123 crashed into a mountain in 1985.

It was a scary time to fly.

Tenerife crash was stupid human error.

Delta Flight 1141 crash in Dallas, in 1988.

I remember landing this plane.

The pilots were ill-equipped for the scenario and the call came out over the PA for someone to step up and save the passengers. I thought about my mother who died in the World Trade Center collapse, as well as my gay workmates who were killed during the Pulse Nightclub Massacre and I said to myself;

“Not again. Not on my watch.”

That was the day I realized I was ‘Jew-ish’ and my skills as a college level volleyballer were going to make a difference.

R1 Since the video you posted clearly shows American Airlines flight 191 in the air, how could it possibly have crashed BEFORE takeoff? What actually happened was the engine separated from the aircraft during its takeoff run causing the aircraft to crash shortly AFTER takeoff. The cause was found to be faulty maintenance procedures by American Airlines.

R2, I think it was more like human arrogance and impatience on the part of the Dutch captain. What is interesting about airplane crashes is that it is often a series of things going wrong that ultimately ends in the crash.

Yes, I remember. But most disturbingly, it appeared in my YouTube feed this morning too…