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To: Texas Eagle
LOL! Just some random, run-of-the-mill, every day mechanic.

Well, to be fair, recall the incident (in 1983) of Eastern Flight 855, which had all three engines fail soon after takeoff from Miami International Airport to Nassau. Pilots were able to bring the aircraft back to MIA without injuries but only barely.

Problem was caused by missing O-rings on all three engines; my recollection is that Eastern was involved in a contentious labor dispute at the time, but I can find no articles making this connection by means of Google.

Eastern filed for bankruptcy in 1989, chiefly as a result of ongoing labor-management problems under CEO Frank Lorenzo.

Also in 1989, Eastern sold its Eastern Shuttle to Donald Trump, who renamed it the Trump Shuttle.

17 posted on 09/06/2019 4:48:38 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Steely Tom

I remember that strike well. The dad of a high school buddy was a machinist and a leader of the strike. It did him in.


26 posted on 09/06/2019 5:43:50 AM PDT by Tea Party Terrorist (People have a sex, not a gender. Things have a gender. Take back the language.)
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