Good afternoon. Flown on a DC9 from MSP to ATL a number of times.
I remember getting on one of these in the 90s and seeing on the serial number plate it was almost as old as I was LOL.
I believe there are two sons of BUFF pilots flying the same aircraft their fathers did. Well, the H model anyway.
Amazing.
5.56mm
Capt. David Welsh is flying a buff his grandpa flew
I remember when the skies were filled with DC-9s back in the 1970s. Hard to believe that airplanes can last that long considering the daily abuse they take. I have a car for four or five years and it's ready for the scrap heap.
On July 31, 1973, one of these DC-9s (Delta) flew several hundred feet over my East Boston childhood home before crashing into a seawall killing all 89 aboard (though one surviver lasted several months). My father, who worked at the airport at the time, was on the scene.
Pilot error. He came into the fog too low.
