Pan Am Captain Grubbs

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.

Pan am captain grubbs.

Flight engineer george warns died two years earlier. Captain victor grubbs pan am flight 1736 pilot survivor. For his bravery in assisting survivors bragg received the president s award for heroism. Bragg was among the sixty one people who survived including the entire pan am cockpit crew captain victor grubbs died in 1993.

Let s get the f out of here captain victor. There have been charges that the pan am pilot victor grubbs did not obey a direction to turn off the runway at an earlier point but pan am s vice. That first officer however was a captain when i flew with him. By the time the klm pilots saw the pan am aircraft they were already traveling too fast to stop.

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. Despite the official report holding the klm captain responsible for the overall accident pan am captain grubbs had 3 opportunities to prevent this disaster. On 27 march 1977 when the tenerife airport disaster occured victor grubbs was the captain on board the pan am flight 1736 747. Victor grubbs second from the left side in his young years.

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. It s all foggy to me but i am sure. I do not remember their names since my pan am days were from 1979 1983. 13 mar 1995 was an american captain of boeing 747 aircrafts.

He returned to flying shortly after the crash. 18 may 1920 d. 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. Let s get the fuck out of here captain victor grubbs says nervously.

Victor franklin grubbs b. What he doesn t realize is that another plane a pan am 747 is taxiing on the same runway. Hold in the air and wait for the airport to re open. The pan am plane was still on the runway.

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.