PinnacleFO

Last night in the hotel room, couldnt sleep, figured i would do some web browsing, come across skywest website because i was looking for a route map of where they fly the 900, i see this 35 year anniversary website. Thats all fine and dandy but when i start looking through it they have events that have happened in the last 35 years, one of them is the comair 5191 crash, and if you click on it it shows a picture of the wrecked plane! I think this is completely inapproriate, disgusting and whoever put that picture up there should be fired. They list other crashes on the site as well, but not pictures, I just dont see why that crash is so important to be in thier35 year history, and def not important enough to put a picture of it up, I mean why stop there why not put all the trade center planes up there as well?

Maybe i am the only one who feels this way, but decide for yourself.
http://www.skywest.com/about/35years/

trackpilot

Wow that would make any passenger feel comfortable. "So that's what a CRJ looks like when it crashes. Oh and everyone will die too..."

Timmay

Everyone didn't die, first off.

Secondly...Why in the world should someone get fired for building a timeline of historic events? If you're going to put somebody under the ax for including Comair 5191 (which, as you said, YOU HAVE TO CLICK ON IT to see it...if you're offended by seeing a plane crash, you probably shouldn't be clicking on pic links), you'd better be ready to answer to anyone else who is offended or disgusted that there's a picture of the Amish girls that were shot, right below the Comair link. Or the VT shooter that went on a rampage.

I don't have a problem with any of these examples...I think SKYW's 35th anniversary website is top-notch, and it kept me interested long enough to go from start to finish on the timeline. Some people need to lighten up, move on, and get a clue. I mean seriously, death and tragedy, as sad as the fact may be, is what gets the most attention these days, and it's what can be recalled the easiest in history. I like the website timeline, and I don't think anyone did anything wrong.

aircraftdriver

Say that to the victim's families.

Seatownflyer

I for one welcome our new censorship overlords! I agree with Timmay, its a time line. There are a lot of other tragic events in there from what I saw. If you want to axe everyone who displays graphic imagery about the past then you've got a loooong road ahead of you.

Timmay

If that's the stance you take, then what should be done? Nothing depicting death? So we should just pretend it never happened? There is nothing on there that I think anyone would/should take offense at. Obviously, everyone's opinions differ, and my comments about "moving on" might be harsher than necessary, but come on? The original poster said that other crashes are listed but no pictures. Take a look at 1980, a military helicopter and cargo plane crash, killing 8. Or what about the Columbine HS students in Littleton, CO? If anything, I find the logic in posting pictures of those two killers more questionable than wreckage of an accident. But I wasn't taken aback when I saw it. I mean, it's history. Nobody set out with the intention of offending anybody, I'm sure.

VTcharter

I for one was offended by the reference to the end of the Vietnam war!! I mean, how could they bring up the Vietnam war...all of those people that gave up their lives! I'm disgusted.

How could this picture "offend" anyone. I mean, if they had shown bodies strewn about through the field or something, then I could see your point, but "offended" by that picture...seriously?! What about the pictures of Pan Am in Lockerbee...those pictures have been plastered across everything for years. Are you offended by those?

Good job skywest. I enjoyed the presentation and thought that it was done well and professionally.

SharkyBN584

I could care less...I'm just wondering what any of that has to do with Skywest being around for 35 years.

ASA has a timeline in the book they put out when they turned 25. It was all *gasp* events actually related to ASA...

p1ayn

Awesome website. Very impressed

trackpilot

Even if you're not offended you have to realize that many more people would be. Therefore i don't see why those pictures or that timeline is appropriate for SkyWest.