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Originally Posted by Dottore
For a couple of years in the mid 1980's, just after 757's came into service, I used to commute twice weekly from Singapore to Jakarta on Singapore Airlines 757's. A couple of the pilots were good mates, and they loved the 757. Referred to it as the sports car of airliners - I guess for the reasons you mention.
However when these planes first when into service they had some problems with cabin pressure. I know Singapore Airlines had to do several decompression dives (with passengers)! I was on one of those. It was the day my hair turned grey. You haven't quite lived until you've gone down nose first in one of these suckers.
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I don't recall reading about that problem, but the 757 has one of the best records in the industry. AA flew one into a mountain in Cali, Columbia in 1996, and some Turkish airline flew one into the water in the same year after taking off from Puerta Plata, Dominican Republic. This last was because a wasp built a nest in the pitot tube....
then of course, there was the two that were destroyed on September 11th. I knew the First Officer on the plane that hit the Pentagon, David Charlebois.
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