Pan Am Captain Grubbs

On 27 march 1977 when the tenerife airport disaster occured victor grubbs was the captain on board the pan am flight 1736 747.

Pan am captain grubbs. 18 may 1920 d. That son of a bitch is coming straight at us. Let s get the fuck out of here captain victor grubbs says nervously. Bragg was among the sixty one people who survived including the entire pan am cockpit crew captain victor grubbs died in 1993.

Flight engineer george warns died two years earlier. By the time the klm pilots saw the pan am aircraft they were already traveling too fast to stop. 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 do not remember their names since my pan am days were from 1979 1983.

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. Despite the official report holding the klm captain responsible for the overall accident pan am captain grubbs had 3 opportunities to prevent this disaster. Victor franklin grubbs b. It s all foggy to me but i am sure.

Victor grubbs second from the left side in his young years. He returned to flying shortly after the crash. 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.

Let s get the f out of here captain victor. What he doesn t realize is that another plane a pan am 747 is taxiing on the same runway. 13 mar 1995 was an american captain of boeing 747 aircrafts. 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.

Hold in the air and wait for the airport to re open. 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. The pan am plane was still on the runway.

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.