One hell of a tale (part 1)

[ConnieLingus69]

Denny and his wife Rosa have a website called "Denny's Journey", detailing his treatment for the brain cancer, etc... He has "Grade Four Glioblastoma", which is always fatal, but some live for a few years after diagnosis. He's already two years in, a testament to his determination and will.

[jaibhakti]

I have read on an airline pilot thread that Denny has brain cancer.

My thoughts and prayers (and some healing energy) go out to him.

A great man, reminding us all of the great potential that is within us...even more than we ever thought possible or could ever imagine (and I say this as a person who has three severly painful degenerative spinal diseases and is now pretty much bedridden--in process of getting a wheelchair). The power within is IMMENSE!

Blessings to you Denny!

[drumbrains]

this is my uncle. i went to his house a year ago and was about to cry hes my inspiration so please stop making fun of him poor guy

[KJLesnick]

@drumbrains

I don't know why anybody would laugh at him -- he seemed like a pretty solid guy.

[KelticWoman1]

@drumbrains If this was my Uncle and I saw people were saying these things I think I would let every member of the family know and to take down the stupid twats typing away.... don't you? Or have you disrespected him by what you said - either fight it, prove it or apologise to those you need to.

[drumbrains]

@KelticWoman1 What are you talking about?

[bluemonkjd]

god, I loved this series.

[mrmontyq]

What a great guy....

[begoi]

whats the names of this documentary series?

[cinesimonj]

@begoi It was a show called 'First Person' - a TV series of interview-based short documentaries made by Errol Morris.

Interesting, but his feature documentaries are far superior: The Thin Blue Line, Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr, Fog of War, Standard Operating Procedure and many more - the guy is a genius.

[BlackLabelSlushie]

@cinesimonj good info thanks.

[NilsvdHoeven]

3:20 WHATSUP?!

[josuneta]

I hate when in documentarys they put scary music, for real in any documentary like this they put scary music, The thing is to create morbidity.

[NilsvdHoeven]

@josuneta I KNOW. Fucking annoying.

[n310ea]

Everytime there's an airplane crash there's always papers blowing in the wind, what part of the aircraft did those papers came from?

[iscrpy]

@n310ea Well almost every seat on airlines usually have those crappy magazines in the seat-backs as well as newspapers and magazines people bring on board, briefcases with paper, manuals for aircraft operations.

[CubsFanJohn]

My Dad was on a DC-10 from New York to Chicago that same afternoon...

[malthus101]

Capt. Denny Fitch - you are the mac daddy. This was very moving and very sad but very inspirational. The same goes to the plane's captain and the pilots and crew.

[FernandoViscaino]

Amazing !

[AlexanderKeiths17]

The interviewer is sorta annoying lol

[terminalblue]

You are sorta stupid lol

[AlexanderKeiths17]

Fist yourself.

[pkes4eva]

dude thats my boyfriend

[sk8rgurlEx]

denny fitch is my friends neighbor no joke.

[AppledoreNews]

And?

[wclark916]

My dad was the head LCA coordinator and worked with Denny and the others like Bob O'Brien and Nate Cloak . Every one of those guys was a class act

[CMF954]

That is my uncle. Yeah, drumbrains is related 2 me.

He's so much fun to be around. Watch the O'reilly factor tonight. Denny's gonna be on.

[lukeyboy95]

thanks for posting this great interesting and sobering video. It was a DC-10 that lead to the abolishment of Concorde...

[AppledoreNews]

Your right it was

[blankz121]

lol

[54spiritedwill54]

this is cool

[sovietspyguy]

For this kind of video they could have picked an interviewer that sounded like less of a douche. It's an odd contrast to the polite, intelligent, well spoken pilot.

[ErikH225]

This guy seems like one hell of a person... In part 5, his willingness to save the other people on the plane in exchange for his own life is amazing.

Glad he made it out OK.

[ualtigger]

Denny is as he seems in this video... a gentle man. I have no doubts that he lives to this day wondering what else he could have done.

[drumbrains]

That's my uncle

[ualtigger]

I had the pleasure of working at United Airlines when Denny was still flying (he retired in 2003) and he is just as he appears in this video... a gentleman.

[MalenkyGoblin]

I think I remember hearing about this plane crash. It had to crash land and it was caught on video. Something went wrong in the tail engine I think.

[annienanners]

Errol Morris' films are amazing. This story is mind-blowing. What about the woman who falls for serial killers? Post her interview!

[mixmastamarshymc]

this is damn cool

[playpen852]

good job on posting this series,