"Peter Dohm" wrote in message
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My personal favorite, in a goulish sort of way, remains the
Southern Airways Flight 242 crash in 1977; in which a witness heard the roar
of the jet engines as the DC-9 glided past--even though both engines had
been inoperative for some time due to FOD.

I have never had an engineless DC-9 glide past me, but I have had lots of
engineless sailplanes zoom past me and guess what? They sound like jets, only
not so loud. I imagine that flamed-out DC-9 going by at 100+ knots also sounded
like a jet, only not so quiet.

Vaughn