WLS-TV coverage of flight 191 crash (5/25/1979) part 1

WLS-TV featuring Fahey Flynn, Joel Daly, Jim Gibbons, and more

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• crash
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[eastest566]

Part 2 is up: /watch?v=U2-CgVLPJPw

[ekrewer]

I was in high school when this happened; had just gotten home from the last day of school for the year. Wall to wall coverage for hours.

I think this crash still ranks as the worst U.S. aviation ACCIDENT ever. Only 9/11 was worse, but that, of course, was not an accident.

[pettyofficer30]

@SaleGuy Go back to the Westboro baptist church you heartless fuck!

[MrYankeefan228]

Hey SaleGuy, GO FUCK YOURSELF you insensitive prick!

Why don't you go and jerk off to wrestling videos u asshole!!

[zenmachinefilms]

Amazing seeing this footage. Horrifying.

[brendan129]

LOL @5:13. I thought it was only recently, the last 15 years or so that they began sensationalizing the everloving shit out of disasters. Guess I was wrong. Someone had to have drawn that in the newsroom, it's not like that had Google for an on the fly image search back then.

[foilseal]

i was there repoerting on this for msnbc. i found a human head at the scene but police said it was unrelated to the crash.

[BigTed5]

I was on the Kennedy Expressway at Cumberland heading to WIsconsin and heard the explosion and saw the fireball. I thought it was one of the fuel tanks east of Elmhurst Road, but I switched over to AM radio and the broadcasters were saying there were unconfirmed reports of a plane down near O'Hare. The memory haunts me still.

[alnilam66]

locking pin metal fatigue was the cause of the crash.

[alnilam66]

I was 11 years old when this happened. it was all over the news, and it scared the hell outta me

[planetearth1210]

@pettyofficer30 shut up ass hole

[tcwilke69]

@Texasboy...Amen, from Abilene.

[TexasboyfrmPaso]

.@saleguy go to hell u piece of shit