HercDriver130

IMHO..the difference is that most of the time "reels" like that are of accidents/crashes that happened 5...10..15 or more years ago.... this happened less than a year ago.... Classless in my opinion

Adlerdriver

What's the statute of limitations on a crash video? Boycott if you feel it's necessary, but I'll be there. Vincent is a good guy and perhaps his time in Asia has dulled him to the sensitivities of Westerners. If he had the FX80 video from NRT in his selection, I'd still go.
I can't watch some yahoo lose his teeth taking his skateboard down a stair rail, so when those videos come on........... I take another sip of my beer and I don't watch.

990Convair

I think its BS. Why not put FDX 80 and UPS 6 on there too then. See ya JETLAG.

fly2ski

Gotta agree, as a FDX pilot if I saw 80 on the loop I'd be ****ed off. I don't know of many FDX'ers that wouldn't be. So I'm boycotting the JLC too!

HotMamaPilot

Wow! Just, wow!

HotMamaPilot

Enjoy your beer, but your attitude is classless at best. Enjoy your beer!

Albief15

When I was in the 95th FS, we had a DO (who I respected very much) take down a class picture, because the class had highlighted a classmate who had died during training in an F15 mishap.

I thought that was a mistake. I considered having a somber, vivid reminder of the stakes in this business a good thing, not a bad thing for our students to see as they walked the halls. Wasn't my call, and the picture came down.

I also thought we in the F15 community whitewashed our mistakes and buried them. When you see an accident occur 10 years after a similar mishap, sometimes having a little corporate knowledge passed down can be a good thing. I would not look at the crash of Flt 80, UPS 6, or the National crash with morbid glee, but I would watch and say to myself "dang--better have my stuff in one sock...today and every day..." I don't go to Naritia, so I really do not have a dog in this fight. That said, I'd put the flight 80 crash on a continuous reel in the AOC if I thought it helped prevent the next mishap.

Rama

Not sure how much pilots can learn from watching an out of control, unrecoverable aircraft crash due to no fault of their own.

filejw

I agree. Was in Flyers years ago with a guy that knew folks in one of the carrier accidents on the screen. This is a tough unforgiving business and sobering reminders can help us keep our head in the game. If you can't take it don't watch.

AerisArmis

HotMama....as you can see, opinions vary on this subject, but apparently there's only one that counts....yours. How about this, next time I'm in the JLC, if that particular video appears, and if I happen to be watching, I'll raise my glass and say a toast to the fallen. In years gone by, after the memorial service was complete and the missing man flight was done, we'd all adjourn to the squadron bar, say some words and have some toasts, then "throw a nickel on the grass" and move on. There are way too many things to wound up over these days for me to throw a fit over this.