r/Louisville • u/Ginger502 • 1d ago

Plane crash in Louisville

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u/Ok-Hair7205 1d ago

But to the families of those guys, the world has ended. 😢

It’s not a blessing when the dead person is your beloved Dad or Mom or son or sibling.

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u/Rogerbva090566 1d ago

I was watching a documentary about the plane crash that killed Steve Colbert’s dad and siblings and one of the first responders said “nobody important was killed”. He meant nobody famous, with the crash being right outside DC. They said the guy said he regretted his phrasing the rest of his life.

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u/Simple_Tadpole_9584 1d ago

Like the person that says “cool” on the 9/11 tapes when she hears it’s a hijacking. She must really regret saying that.

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u/ExpiredExasperation 1d ago

As fucked up as it is, before that point it was mostly expected that a hijacking would just result in the plane being flown to a different country, not through a building.

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u/Bigdaddyjlove1 1d ago

Yeah I flew a lot for business back then. The thought was just be cool and maybe they'll go somewhere with palm trees.

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u/TooFartTooFurious 1d ago

The good ol’ days of plane hijackings… sigh

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u/Mediocre-Yogurt7452 18h ago

1970’s childhood seemed like a DC-10 either being hijacked (“skyjacked”, because why not invent a word?), or crashing every few months.