Talk:Federal Express Flight 705

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As featured on Air Crash Investigations episode: Fight for Your Life MxAesir 11:56, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

WHersey|BLHersey]] 22:36, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Error on the page: He knew the crew was altered from one to another, since he was a member of the original crew, hence wy it would only be 2 ppl he would have to overpower, as oppose to three now when he decided to go jumpseat. This is all covered in: Discovery Channel Mayday Air Disasters S03E04 124.120.83.37 05:31, 24 January 2007 (UTC) Zarkow

-The above is true. I have this video on DVD. Also, it should be pointed out that the co-pilot rolled the aircraft and put it through extreme manuevers to keep the attacker off balanced.

-I'm not convinced by this article entirely. How would he have known he was going to be fired. If he had been fired then he wouldn't have been allowed to hitch a ride on the plane. Also why would he take the time to carefully pick weapons to disguise the accident as a crash and then fly the plane into FedEx headquarters. That seems way too far-fetched. I'm sure his intentions were to crash the plane but I doubt he wanted to crash into FedEx headquarters. It wouldn't like an accident and his family couldn't get a compensation payout then. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Matt86m (talk • contribs) 15:12, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Of course it does not make sence...He pleaded insanity. Spikydan1 (talk) 15:16, 23 January 2009 (UTC)


 * AC was indeed about to be fired; however, he was scheduled to be on that flight originally. After his trial, he admitted to planning on crashing into the Super Hub - some of the fuel bunkers are under the hub... Also, during the maneuvering, the aircraft was seriously damaged. Sanders' and Tucker's maneuvering was high-G enough to rip out the depleted uranium counterbalances from the elevators on this aircraft.MHaz1701 (talk) 21:09, 24 March 2009 (UTC


 * The article mentions that the flight number has retired, but has not. After looking the flight number up on flightaware.com it shows activity. http://flightaware.com/live/flight/FDX705

BigHemi (talk) 12:48, 28 August 2015 (UTC)BigHemiBigHemi (talk) 12:48, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

How is the crew doing now?
You know that was 13 years ago, are they still alive? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.19.170.157 (talk) 22:18, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Crew is alive and well. They're good friends of my father (MD-11 Capt), and I hear from them semi-regularly.MHaz1701 (talk) 21:06, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Article title
Is this article title correct? That is, was Fed(eral)Ex(press) using the "FedEx Express" name in 1994? Trivialist (talk) 01:05, 16 July 2011 (UTC)


 * I looked into this and learned that indeed the title "FedEx Express Flight 705" is inaccurate for the time of the incident. I've changed the title to now be the accurate "Federal Express Flight 705". Here are the references:


 * It was easy to learn that FedEx Express was not accurate, in that the company history webpage clearly states that the name FedEx Express was not adopted until January 2000: FedEx History.


 * The question then becomes whether the proper title should be Federal Express or FedEx. This change clearly happened in 1994, as is documented in many references including the official company history link above. But exactly when in 1994? THAT info is a lot more difficult to find. With a bit of digging, I found the story of the person who developed the FedEx logo. It does not give the exact date of the change, but he does precisely state facts about a meeting where the current FedEx logo was one of five that were "presented to [CEO] Mr. [Fred] Smith and his executive team on April 23, 1994 in Memphis." That's from this story of the logo's creator, Mr. Lindon Leader of Leader Creative: The Man Behind the FedEx Logo


 * ...and if the FedEx logo was not selected before April 23rd, then obviously the company was still Federal Express at the time of this flight incident, April 7, 1994.--Tdadamemd (talk) 22:45, 13 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Here's more definitive info from one of the article's references, tailstrike.com, with the CVR transcript:
 * UA to Tower: Oh by the way what was Express 705, what airlines?
 * Tower to UA: That's Federal Express.
 * That's just a two-line excerpt. The full transcript is brutal. But this jibes with the previous assessment that the airline's name change had not yet happened.--Tdadamemd (talk) 22:26, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

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Updated summary
Initially, the summary is linked to only the 'Aircraft Hijacking' article. I updated the summary so that it links to both 'Suicide by pilot' and 'Aircraft Hijacking' articles. If this change needs to be reverted then please leave the reason for doing so on my talk page. --TransportFan2014 (talk) 23:43, 2 November 2018 (UTC)TransportFan2014

SilkAir Flight 185
I don't think that the disabling of the FDR and CVR aboard SilkAir Flight 185 is really comparable to what happened in this incident, because the FedEx FDR and CVR are known to have been deliberately disabled by someone other than the flight crew, and the disabled FDR and CVR were discovered and reactivated. The reason that the SilkAir FDR and CVR were disabled was not and cannot be conclusively determined. Carguychris (talk) 17:31, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

Plaigiarism
This article significantly plaigiarizes the script of the Smithsonian Air Disasters episode. Some parts are word for word. 74.69.12.159 (talk) 16:00, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

Legal reference
Submitting a reference on the case: United States vs Calloway. KyuuA4 (Talk:キュウ) 11:31, 5 December 2023 (UTC)