Originally Posted by
RedeyeAV8r
That is a true statement...............in other words The lives of freightdawg crewmembers don't mean squat............
Remember when that Emery DC-8 that crashed near SMF about 6 years ago. It never made the National news of the front page of a paper. 3 crewmembers lost their lives.
Sadly, you are quite correct. Fatal freighter accidents never really make the "front page". Ask the average Joe after your SMF accident and most wouldn't be able to remember it.
I remember we lost a DC-8-F in the hills near SLC back in the 70s. The only thing that made the paper - for all of a day or two - was that one of the crew (S/O, I think), came up during the initial autospy as having alcohol in his system. Turned out to be decomposition of the body and the news was out of the paper after that.
It angered me as I'm certain the SMF accident did to you.