The Crash of MLB Star Roberto Clemente DC 7 - TakingOff Ep 148

New Years Eve, 1972, a moonless night out of Puerto Rico, famous major leaguer Roberto Clemente hoped on the DC-7 for a relief flight to stricken Nicaragua that he was paying for. The flight was less than 3 minutes, before everyone was dead. What happened in this horrible tragedy and what can we learn from it?
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[@rentslave]

After the Pirates opening game at Shea in 1967,my friends and I were walking on Highway 21 in Newark,

[@jajaja7702]

Died trying to help his people, forever and always a legend LLRC 🇵🇷

[@manuelgarces1014]

Very well presented video Dan. My father's best friend and best man was the mechanic in the flight engineer's seat. If I remember correctly, it was New Year's Eve. He was trying to make some extra money for his family. He left behind two kids and a pregnant wife. Very sad.

[@davef.2329]

Good video and look back at tragic history. The DC-7C was definitely the wrong airplane to be cutting all those corners on. Shoe-string engine maintenance alone would quickly spell gloom with that machine, and with no proper Flight Engineer, that operation was never going to work.

[@DominicanRicanYork_Guille]

He is the greatest! #21

[@ManuelGuzman067]

Immortal ⚾ Legend Roberto Clemente probally just floated out to sea and then sharks probally got to him . Rip Boricua 🌹

[@Gionix]

Thanks for doing this type of videos to make general aviation safer for all of us 🙏

[@paratyshow]

👍☑️ Non stop high quality videos! Excelent report Dan, clear and concise step by step of what happened. Thanks for putting in the time to research this and then tying it in to how we can learn from it to be safer today.

[@Permanentransitory]

Dear Dan Given RC's greatness to humanity that was a very nice summation for all of us. Thank you

[@fraomedinaii2095]

My uncle was a musician at the time and he was going in the same plane when they found out the weather conditions and the conditions of the plane my uncle had second thoughts there was also a few Puerto Rican musicians that also refuse to go on that plane that day Roberto was a gentleman a true humanitarian the real people's champ when he went out there and celebrate with the people of Pittsburgh you could tell he was all about the fans all about the people

[@explorer8888]

Great video! Very sad and tragic end for Clemente and everyone onboard.

[@haroldcalderon9030]

Proud to be Puertorican as well! We have too much to offer as a country!

[@haroldcalderon9030]

You are absolutely a professional when it comes to aviation safety. There is a good video that covered all the subjects you have explained here. It goes by “Stopping Normalization of Deviance!”

[@BoricuaNyc]

Roberto Clemente 🇵🇷 was a Hereo ❤️. Today he's a LEGEND 👑❤️🇵🇷🇺🇸🇵🇷

[@jeremiahrigoni9495]

I never got to see Roberto play but he is my favorite player, I even got a 21 tattoo

[@citizenshane8932]

What a great video, great presentation, great points!

[@FeralPreacher]

I remember Roberto when I was a kid. There was never talk about Latino, or ethnicity, or race, just a great ball player.

[@Jeffrey-Flys]

Great take-aways. Thanks Dan

[@av8tordonny398]

Great video, Dan. I was just watching the MLB network and they were featuring Roberto, who’s always been in my list of the greatest ever. As with many many accidents, this was so completely avoidable.

[@citizenshane8932]

Amen‼️ I’m a proud Plains Cree First Nation Indigenous Aboriginal‼️