Pan Am Captain Grubbs

Victor grubbs second from the left side in his young years.

Pan am captain grubbs. It s all foggy to me but i am sure. The pan am plane was still on the runway. Captain victor grubbs pan am flight 1736 pilot survivor. On 27 march 1977 when the tenerife airport disaster occured victor grubbs was the captain on board the pan am flight 1736 747.

That son of a bitch is coming straight at us. Bragg was the last surviving flight crew member as all 3 members from klm died in the accident flight engineer george warns died in 1991 and captain victor grubbs died in 1995. Okay i ve found out victor grubbs died in the mid late 90s and that he never did fully recover from the disaster psychologically. Despite the official report holding the klm captain responsible for the overall accident pan am captain grubbs had 3 opportunities to prevent this disaster.

Captain grubbs applied full power to the throttles and made a sharp left turn towards the grass in an attempt to avoid the impending collision. That first officer however was a captain when i flew with him. Let s get the fuck out of here captain victor grubbs says nervously. What he doesn t realize is that another plane a pan am 747 is taxiing on the same runway.

For his bravery in assisting survivors bragg received the president s award for heroism. Hold in the air and wait for the airport to re open. 13 mar 1995 was an american captain of boeing 747 aircrafts. On 27 march 1977 when the tenerife airport disaster occured robert bragg was the co pilot first officer on board the pan am flight 1736 747.

18 may 1920 d. Let s get the f out of here captain victor. I do not remember their names since my pan am days were from 1979 1983. Flight engineer george warns died two years earlier.

In the pan am cockpit nose to nose with the still unseen rapidly approaching interloper there s a growing sense that something isn t right. I also strongly remember flying with a female fa who told me she was also on that flight and i believe she told me she pulled the first officer out of the cockpit that day. Bragg was among the sixty one people who survived including the entire pan am cockpit crew captain victor grubbs died in 1993. By the time the klm pilots saw the pan am aircraft they were already traveling too fast to stop.

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