Wow... Worst crash-damaged C-body I've ever seen

[71Newp]

A link to the NTSB report:
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR7306.pdf

Another interesting article which cites over-rotation due to a lack of pilot training:
Crash at Farrell's

 

[Snotty]

I agree, very tragic. That's why Military aircraft, especially jets, should be left with the military.

If that were the case, two classes at the Reno Air races would go away. I'm not in favor of that.

Don't know if anyone can find it, but the Sac Bee posted a picture of the pilot climbing into the cockpit of the Sabre. Nice shot, and he looked quite happy. What I noticed, however, was the word "EXPERIMENTAL" under the windshield. I asked my dad about that; he said it had to be listed that way in order for a private pilot to fly it, even though it was a plane that had been decommissioned by the USAF over ten years previous. Interesting.

 

[Carmine]

If that were the case, two classes at the Reno Air races would go away. I'm not in favor of that.

Don't know if anyone can find it, but the Sac Bee posted a picture of the pilot climbing into the cockpit of the Sabre. Nice shot, and he looked quite happy. What I noticed, however, was the word "EXPERIMENTAL" under the windshield. I asked my dad about that; he said it had to be listed that way in order for a private pilot to fly it, even though it was a plane that had been decommissioned by the USAF over ten years previous. Interesting.

The Check6 site has the full history of that particular plane. It was actually a Royal Canadian Air Force plane, built in Canada from American specifications (because all our contractors were building USAF jets for the Korean war). Decommissioned a decade earlier as you mentioned.

That same site also has military flight experts on record that the shopping center shouldn't have been built there (before this occurred). In the crash report, it says that an unfamiliar pilot would probably lift too early because of the proximity to the shopping center. It also portrays the pilot in a better light, saying that the second attempt to lift was because it was too late to abort, the plane would have hit the center either way.

 

[65 500]

The House Of Flavors in Ludington Michigan, been there since at least the early '60's.

 

[Snotty]

In the crash report, it says that an unfamiliar pilot would probably lift too early because of the proximity to the shopping center.

That's what was declared in the lawsuit that followed, which led to the demise of Farrell's.

 

[Carmine]

That's what was declared in the lawsuit that followed, which led to the demise of Farrell's.

The chain continued for decades after this incident. According to the same article, a police complex was eventually built in the same spot.

 

[Snotty]

The chain continued for decades after this incident. According to the same article, a police complex was eventually built in the same spot.

It may have continued for decades in other States, but in California it was done by 1983.

 

[Carmine]

It may have continued for decades in other States, but in California it was done by 1983.

That's 11 years after this crash. And according to the July 2019 article that lead me to the crash story:

Acquired by Marriott Corporation in 1971, it grew to more than 130 locations nationwide.

It was sold to a San Francisco investment group in 1988, but most locations had closed by 1990. The last original location closed in 2006 in Eugene, Oregon.

In 2009, Lake Forest-based Parlour Enterprises Inc. revived the company, buying the rights to the brand in the mainland United States. In the next few years it opened seven shops, in Brea, Santa Clarita, Rancho Cucamonga, Riverside, Mission Viejo, Buena Park and Sacramento.

That seems to indicate they continued to expand for a decade after the crash, and started running out of gas in the mid 80s. They carried on like a Zombie into the 00's and were kaput (the first time) by 2006. I think we can conclude they died of stale management; like Ruby Tuesday's, not because of a terrible, freak accident almost 35 years earlier. In fact, they had enough brand equity to revive and survive for 10 years almost exclusively in California.

 

[Snotty]

That's 11 years after this crash. And according to the July 2019 article that lead me to the crash story:

Acquired by Marriott Corporation in 1971, it grew to more than 130 locations nationwide.

It was sold to a San Francisco investment group in 1988, but most locations had closed by 1990. The last original location closed in 2006 in Eugene, Oregon.

In 2009, Lake Forest-based Parlour Enterprises Inc. revived the company, buying the rights to the brand in the mainland United States. In the next few years it opened seven shops, in Brea, Santa Clarita, Rancho Cucamonga, Riverside, Mission Viejo, Buena Park and Sacramento.

That seems to indicate they continued to expand for a decade after the crash, and started running out of gas in the mid 80s. They carried on like a Zombie into the 00's and were kaput (the first time) by 2006. I think we can conclude they died of stale management; like Ruby Tuesday's, not because of a terrible, freak accident almost 35 years earlier. In fact, they had enough brand equity to revive and survive for 10 years almost exclusively in California.

In Sacramento, where there was four of them when the accident happened, they were all closed by 1979. In 1982, when I started attending Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, I was surprised to find one still open in San Gabriel. It closed sometime after/in 1983.

The Sacramento one that re-opened closed again after three years.