Access the best of Getty Images with our simple subscription plan. The results of these analyses showed that Eastern 66 probably encountered an increasing headwind as it descended on the ILS glideslope. Other Norwegian sailors were on today's Flight 66, which left the city amid a rainstorm, but with what Eastern officials described as a normal passenger load of about 100. The flight responded, "Affirmative. . NEW ORLEANS, June 25The death in yesterday's Eastern jetliner crash of 39 Louisiana residents, including a number of business and professional leaders, was marked in the State House of Representatives in Baton Rouge by a moment of silence when word of the fatalities was received. At 1604:54.7, the captain again said, "Stay on the gauges," and the first officer replied, "I'm with it." Plane went down in a thunderstorm, smashing across Rockaway Blvd., and leaving a trail of bodies in its wake. Then, in 2015, a magazine I write for asked me to write an article looking at windshear, how we've progressed over the years. Just coincidentally I was at Jfk when he landed. On June 24th, 1975, flight 66 was operated by a Boeing 727-200 registered as N8845E. . Patricia McQuigg, Beverly Raposa, and Mercy Ruiz joined Infantino this week at a program to teach airline experts and passengers the lessons learned from a dark night in the Everglades. The captain acknowledged the clearance and asked, "Got any reports on braking action . It would be North Carolina's second-worst air disaster, behind the 82 lives lost in a mid-air collision seven years earlier over Hendersonville. . Richard M. Page, president of Oil Mop Incorporated, a company that developed technology for cleaning up oil spills. Her sister, Tina, 7, and her father were taken in the mobile unit on later trips. ", The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the aircraft's encounter with adverse winds associated with a very strong thunderstorm located astride the ILS localizer course, which resulted in high descent rate into the non-frangible approach light towers.