The aircraft was destroyed by the impact, explosion, and subsequent ground fire. I could smell the jet fuel. Based in California, US, Trijet Tragedy: How Pan Am Flight 759 Became 1982's Deadliest Aviation Disaster, microburst-induced wind shear during takeoff, SWISS Reveals New Airbus A330 Cabin Designs, United Airlines To Increase Guam-Japan Flights This Summer, Uganda Airlines Reinstates Fifth Johannesburg Flight, A Brief Guide To The Airbus A320 Family's Main Variants, On This Day In 1990 Smoking Was Banned On US Domestic Flights Of Less Than 6 Hours, What Happened To The Led Zeppelin Boeing 720? It was a way of connecting and honoring the heroic efforts of the first responders and understanding the horrific loss to the victim's families. Surely it must be farther out in the distance. A memorial service marking the event was held in front of the fountain Tuesday. More flames popped up in front of me. The flight crew was trying to avoid the neighborhood and make it to the canal, (as) it was less populated. The name of every victim appears on the wall. They covered her with a blanket. A handout photo by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office of the crash of flight 759 in 1982. Images of Flight 759 would remain in the pages of memory and thoughts of all who were there on that fateful day. Anxiety rules the situation; logic and experience formulate decisions. "They said, 'Man, a Pan Am plane just crashed,'" Walker recalled recently. I was glad I was out of that mix today. Pan Am 759 crashed into a Kenner neighborhood, killing all 146 people on board and eight people on the ground. Most had jobs at the airport, so the seemed the price they paid for their short drive to work. In a level 3 storm, severe turbulence is possible; in a level 4 storm, severe turbulence is likely; a level 5 storm will have severe turbulence, powerful wind gusts, and possible hail; and a level 6 storm features large hail, severe turbulence, and extreme wind gusts. Aguiar, Juan Carlos, Montevideo, Uruguay.