1973 Delta 723 / Bostonelectro-wiz wrote: ↑Sat Aug 20, 2022 1:39 pm Umm the FAA does not investigate airplane crashes. That is the duty of the NTSB.
But complete silence from government accident investigations is quit normal. Likely we will get a completed report from NTSB in about 2 years.
But we can likely draw some conclusions from looking at their adsb track and the radar at the time of the accident.
They were south of a line of thunderstorms, which was between them and their destination, they saw what looked like a gap between 2 cells and attempted to go between. Thunderstorms tend to be very unpredictable, quite possibly he had done things like this before without any problems...
Very sad, praying for the family as they deal with their loss.
It's accidents like that make me keep me awake at night...
Any quick memory brings back the shock that spread thruout Vermont and New England. We were young, living+working in Vermont when this awful crash happened in Boston. It seemed everyone knew someone on that flight. We had a vivacious young friend, a UVM college student, Catholic, lots of siblings. Her father and a young sister, on her first flight, were both killed.
What struck me was how immediately+irrevocably lives are changed following unexpected deadly crashes.
Our friend’s life changed 180 degrees, her “plans+hopes” of years of her young life turned “on a dime,” it was so thorough.
This was happening to hundreds of others at the same time, resulting from this one deadly crash.
Years prior, when my grandfather died suddenly from a heart attack, “the world” as i knew it changed dramatically, to never be the same. He left 9 children, their spouses and children, all changed. These people were pretty much my world in those years.
i don’t think we’re very good at understanding how we fit into other people’s lives around us. and, we don’t anticipate what changes happen if we’re not there. we expect things to remain pretty much as they were. i’m not sure it’s ever like that.
1973-2022 / This video is the first time i’ve seen any sort of reenactment or analysis of that short routine flight:
Burlington VT - Manchester NH - Boston MA
3 Greens - Aviation Safety / Trying To Land Blind | Delta 723 / 16min
Delta SEA-LAX-IND 
for a brief moment over Ft. Garland, CO. That is just a bit faster than Boeing's "typical cruise speed" of 522 mph. Must have had a serious tailwind. Taxi time to takeoff was 16 minutes compared to a scheduled 10 minutes, so that's not the reason I initially assumed.
TSA PreCheck?? 