[Gay State Conservative]

Gorgeous old Connie...I don't go back quite that far....my first flight as a boy was on a Lockheed Electra.

Same here...the Eastern Shuttle to NYC with my Dad.I was a kid but was old enough to have seen,and understood,all the stories about fatal crashes of Electras.I was scared out of my mind.

[Emperor Palpatine]

Didn’t Lockheed spend millions fixing that problem? Since those first crashes due to fatigue and whirl mode Electras have had an exemplary safety record and the military version, (P-3 Orion), is still in service.

Ever read Robert Serling’s, (Yep, the brother of TV’s Rod), book on the crashes and how they solved the mystery, “The Electra Story”?

[RckyRaCoCo]

My first flight was on an American DC-10, around the time of the Chicago crash. I was assigned a windows seat with a clear view of engine #1.

But scariest flight was an old Frontier 737-200 from SNA-DEN, I watched a constant stream of dark fluid about 3 inches wide coming from the engine cowling the whole flight...followed by a very dark bumpy T'Storm approach into Denver.

(I almost experienced my own stream of dark fluid on that one)