DBAHC: Screw Pan Am
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IC: So, what do you think would the impact be of no crash of Flight 194, then?
OOC: I'll leave the cause of the crash and what unfortunate celebrity was there to you.
I wonder how River Phoenix's career will look like if he didn't die.
To Screw Pan Am, you can Give Pan American worse Service records among US Airlines. You remember when United Airline Dragged passenger off a plane because it was Overbooked in 1973? That led Pan Am to improve customer Services.
Little things add up too. Pan Am doesn’t charge for checked bags like everyone else does and their employees are actually friendly. There is a whole culture from their pilots down to their baggage handlers that nobody else seems to have replicated.
Other airlines don't get it that people are willing to pay a little extra to be treated like a human being and not have to worry about some piece of the airplane falling off mid-flight.
OOC, given that it would be a 747SP and it crashed in 1990, I would say it could be the same thing that happened to that El Al cargo plane that crashed into an apartment building in the Neatherlands in the early 1990s. The number 3 engine detatched, knocked the number four engine off and damaged the leading edge of the wing. The pilots, unaware of what exactly happened, slowed the plane down to make an emergency landing causing the damaged wing to stall and the plane crashed killing all on board and dozens on the ground.
IC: So,mwhat do you think would the careers of River Phoenix and Nicole Kidman be like if they weren't on that doomed flight as they showed lots of promise before they got killed?
Being remarkably free in the 80s of terrorism-related shenanigans helped OTL, unlike, for example, Air Canada (of Lahore Bombing infamy) or TWA (Manila Incident anyone?) Maybe for some reason more terroists target Pan Am planes instead?
(OCC: Sorry for the double post but I thought of something else to contribute)
What probably kept Pan Am from being considered more of the unofficial flag carrier was their lack of confidence in American airline manufacturers. McDonald Douglas's reputation was already in tatters because of Turkish Airlines flight 981 when American Airlines flight 191 happened resulting in the grounding of all DC-10s. Boeing's 747s were having problems with locked cargo doors spontaneously unlocking themselves and engines coming off in flight. Not to mention the 737s started taking nose dives into the ground after hitting turbulence. Lockheed's L-1011 was a dud that didn't have the range and fuel efficiency originally promised. It was no wonder they turned to Airbus at the earliest opportunity.
What probably kept Pan Am from being considered more of the unofficial flag carrier was their lack of confidence in American airline manufacturers. McDonald Douglas's reputation was already in tatters because of Turkish Airlines flight 981 when American Airlines flight 191 happened resulting in the grounding of all DC-10s. Boeing's 747s were having problems with locked cargo doors spontaneously unlocking themselves and engines coming off in flight. Not to mention the 737s started taking nose dives into the ground after hitting turbulence. Lockheed's L-1011 was a dud that didn't have the range and fuel efficiency originally promised. It was no wonder they turned to Airbus at the earliest opportunity.
Don't forget United Airlines Flight 24, which was blown to bits over an urban area, making it the worst single-plane aircrash of all time.
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OOC: Given what I consider suburban, I can only see something like that being the worst single-plane air crash of all time is if most of the plane crashed into a school when classes were in session.