My parents are friends with the eight year old who survived who lost his whole family in this video, he is now happily married with children, i grew up with his son. They are a happy family.
That is good news to hear after reading about the man by one of the commenters above this post. I remember now the story about this. I was a teenager then.
I cannot imagine the heartbreak that sole survivor of the family of nine went through. They didn’t just lose one loved one that day, they lost them all.
Just as sad as the lonely survivor of the Lago Maggiore Cablecar collapse recently in Italy, where only a young boy survived, losing all his family in this incident.
What gets me is that a 12 year knew this wasn't going to happen and the experienced pilot didn't. Hubris, maybe? But man, the loss of so many families is just gut wrenching.
The one kid losing essentially their whole family in an instant just ripped my heart to pieces. I couldn't even imagine the grief and despair that little one had.
You might not think that way after they cut off your leg because you are morbidly obese and have diabetes and did nothing about it except getting fatter and lazier.
Now this whole thing is a tragedy, but the grand parents getting run over by a truck trying to reach their grand children who weren't even there just broke me.
@@Utubesanarc I'm confused with your response. I found the info about the car which was struck on a wiki entry. Many articles don't mention those two fatalities -they only mention a car was struck while the jet crossed the highway. The jet could have clipped the car with no loss of life. I' assume the jet was afire by then and set the struck car afire.
The survivor’s guilt the pilot must have felt is something I can’t imagine. Especially considering that it was families and children and that several probably died from burns which is a horrific way to go. This might be one of the most upsetting stories I’ve heard from this channel in a long time.
@@danielbierwirth2190 i would honestly do the same. I don’t think I could ever live with myself if I knew that so many innocent beings who just wanted a snack died at my hands.
@@danielbierwirth2190 I think you have things a little bit mixed up - it was the owner of the jet who died in a high speed dive in a P-51 about a year after the original incident. I don't know whether that was suicide because there was a passenger, too, so it would be a doubly awful thing to for him to do.
@@seanbreheny9777 Is that what it was.... It was a long time ago. Now that you have stirred up the cobwebs in my brain, (thank you very much for that dust storm), you are right. I was 14 or so at the time. I don't know why I've always thought it was the pilot of the Saber Jet, but I remember many years ago, my dad telling me once I had it wrong. Well thanks for setting me and the record straight.
@@star-tc7xv I was just corrected, it wasn't the pilot who died in the Mustang by Suicide. My brain had 2 related stories crossed. It was the "OWNER" of the Jet who was killed about a year later in the Mustang. My brain combined those stories. So I wanted to admit my error up front. Its sad to get old and have your brain compact your life into a 3 minute video.
My dad's best friend was working at Farrells when this happened, he didn't like to talk about it, but one time he did tell us about how he ended up tossing children through a broken window to get them out of the burning building, he had burns all over his arms from it, such a terrible tragedy.
My former neighbor Kerri, who lost her twin, was the one that campaigned for and got the memorial installed. She was a lovely woman. You would not have known she had such a tragedy in her life. I remember when this happened. We were frequent customers of Farrell’s and Sacramento was a regular stop on family vacations. Kerri spoke of “the accident” but never elaborated. When I found out WHICH accident, my heart broke for her. I was sad to hear she had passed away several years after her family moved away. (Natural causes) The twins are together again.
I'm honestly super impressed that more than a memorial plaque came out of this. A major charity being set up in response to this so that other burn victims can recieve better medical treatment is just about the best memorial possible
Agreed, Andrea. The Cocoanut Grove Fire and the Hartford Circus Fire (both also on Fascinating Horror) led to improvements in burn care. But a center that can perform continuing research is a huge benefit to medicine.
Agreed, every year on the weekend of the memorial the local fire academies have all of the cadets at street corners around the greater Sacramento area with fire boots to fill with donations for the burn center. They make millions of dollars every year from that alone.
I feel so bad for those grandparents who ran across the street to help and got hit my a truck. I bet they were so focused on the disaster that they didn’t even consider checking the street
As a grandparent, I can absolutely attest to that. I would run toward any kind of danger if any of my kids or grands were in trouble. Familial Love is like that, I’d die for any of them❤️
Does anyone know where she was when she was hit? I feel like a truck should have been going slow when there was that much chaos all over the street and surrounding buildings.
@@05pittsd No idea but a truck doesn't have to be going very fast at all to kill someone. About a year ago where I live, a cyclist collided with a truck that was getting ready to pull out of a parking lot and died from a head injury. The driver in this video could have been negligent but it's just as likely that it was out of their control.
My father and I were on our way to get ice cream there. I remember the fire trucks screaming by and we kept driving towards the ice cream parlor and as we drove by my father and I were in shock. It was a sad day and I am glad my dad took his time at Sears.
My parents and older siblings (I hadn't been born yet) were going to church at that day and arrived a few minutes after it happened. My sister remembers seeing a firefighter working his way along the roof. They heard about what had happened on the radio.
The fact the pilot was distraught and wanted others to be rescued shows that he was truly sorry for what he did and not so much over the consequences he would face.
@@ronstreet6706 Even with all the mitigating circumstances Imagaine trying to live with that on your conscience for the rest of your life. It would be game over for me for certain.
I feel like having honest, legitimate regret for something is what opens the door to forgiveness. The victims deserve all the sympathy and support in situations like this, but you'd need a heart of stone to not feel at least a little pity for someone who just signed up for a lifetime of guilt by making one bad choice.
@@ronstreet6706 The picture shows him in a wheelchair. It could be that his injuries left him medically unable to fly a plane, in addition to whatever regrets he may have felt.
I really like how he talks about the aftermath and any changes that came from the disaster. Instead of leaving it so sensational, it’s good to remember good things that can come out of these tragic events.
The good thing that comes out of these tragedies, is that people horrified by the tragedy immediately do whatever they must to make it so another tragedy like it doesn't happen again.
I had only been to a Ferrells once and it was a sensation overload for me as a child. It was in Memphis and we were there on a trip from Atlanta. I'm the youngest of three and my oldest brother, without my knowledge, had told the waitress that it was my birthday. Next thing I know, there's all kinds of racket, bells, whistles and lights flashing with a string of employees coming to our table while singing. I was so embarrassed but grew used to being the target of many pranks from my older brothers and I gave them their fair share as well.
Growing up as a child in the 60’s , Farrells ice cream parlor was our favorite place to celebrate our birthdays as kids! It was so much fun , with these humongous bowls of ice cream that we’d share with our friends and just be in ice cream heaven! Those were certainly the good old days that I’ll always treasure🥰✌🏼🍨🎂🍰🍦🍧
@@guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248 Yes! That place was amazing! My brother and I couldn’t wait until it was our birthday to celebrate with our friends and dig into such deliciousness 🍨🍧🍦
I was honestly expecting a fire, and/or people being killed in some kind of crush because the building had a shitty design with the fire escapes welded shut etc. Seems fairly standard for the era.
Tbh I didn’t know what Farrel’s was before this video so I just assumed that it was an ice cream parlor stationed in the shell of an old retired fighter jet
Oh my god. I live in Sacramento, and my grandpa was a morgue worker all his life. He was on the scene of this, collecting the bodies. He talked about it as his most traumatizing moment at his job, in over 40 years of work. I've heard about this all my life, surreal to see a video on it
@@leae3750 I dont think he'd ever truly say that, other than that it was emotionally breaking. He died 2 years ago so...I unfortunately can't ask him anymore.
My late step-father Hamish was a medical examiner most of his life, started working as a funeral director, got his medical education and degrees, then worked in a morgue at the city hospital where he worked with the bodies of those who’d passed and determine cause of death. He dealt with the Piper Alpha incident, massive incident that happened off the NE Scottish coast, it was a massive explosion on an oil rig platform where 167 died. It left him with PTSD and he developed alcoholism due to it, and despite loving his job as a medical examiner, the disaster made him leave his job, the trauma was just too much. I imagine Hamish’s experience is akin to your grandfather, Hamish didn’t talk about it in detail very often, he massively struggled with it, he’d mention it from time-to-time and would be extremely somber on the anniversary every year, but he never fully went into details, just said most of the deceased were not whole and it was mostly parts of people he saw. I don’t blame him for not wanting to speak about it in detail, I’m assuming your grandfather is much the same.
@@leae3750 I was 12 when this happened, and I watched it happen, then ran down Freeport Blvd to Farrells with my brother. We walked across Freeport into Farrells parking lot. There we saw men carrying bodies out and lining them up on the lot. We stood right next to the bodies, and my 10 year old brother said "It killed a bunch of black people". He didn't realize they were all burned unrecognizable. The bodies I saw were intact, just badly burned.
My father grew up in Sacramento, and was about 11 years old when this happened. The way his generation remembers it, Farrell's was so popular most people in town could claim they had either recently visited the shop, or were planning to within the near future. "Either you had just come from Farrell's, or you were just about to go."
I still have the BD invitation for the free ice cream treat. Yes it was very popular place to be. Yes good thing we couldn’t make it. I can thank Mr Reagan for having my aunt work that day! ❤️
I used to be a commercial pilot years ago; our nickname for the FAA was The Tombstone Agency because they never acted until someone died. And unfortunately oft times in aviation incidents it's a lot of people who die.
Once I saw the title and the image, I immediately remembered my mom talking about the incident when I was younger. She was born and raised in Sacramento. Her and her friends were going to the ice cream store but her friend left her money at home. Her friend insisted they run home and get her money. When they came back, the plane had already crashed. I remember my mom got emotional talking about it. She only mentioned it once.
Grew up in Sacramento as well (though this happened a little over 4 years before I was born), and we'd drive right by the airport and strip mall to get to church (among other places during the week). My family was headed to church and arrived not long after it happened, and they had to detour around the area, not knowing until later (when they heard about it on the radio) as to what exactly had happened (though they could see the smoke, and my sister remembers getting enough of a view of the building that she remembers seeing a firefighter up on the roof trying to help fight the flames).
@@Mr1borrego2 Not true, as of the 40th anniversary of the accident in 2012 he was still living in Northern California. He was contacted by the Sacramento paper to make a statement, and declined.
We lost a friend and his daughter in this accident. He had taken her there for her birthday, along with several of her friends. The primary reason for the crash was the pilot using a short runway and the temperature which was high creating low air density on takeoff
Yes, the pilot decided to use a short runway, he wasn’t up to extending it to accommodate his airplane & didn’t feel like chugging across to a longer freeway. Sorry for your loss... I then saw blame also put onto new sign on ice-cream store distracted the pilot...!
@@WLHS "Distracted the pilot???" Ridiculous. Watch any video of ant big plane coming into San Diego International Airport. Steepest required landing angle on the US...and THOUSANDS of surrounding tall buildings and other distractions. Fortunately, the take off side is over the water. Which I imagine might also pose a distraction.
"Felt like he mastered the controls after a few 1 hour flights" sounded like a recipe for disaster and it was. I'm so addicted to this channel right now
To be fair, it wasn’t entirely his fault as the video stated that regulations at that particular airport had been unacceptably lax for quite some time. I feel bad for that dude by the way since it was clear he was absolutely distraught over the damage he caused albeit accidentally following his removal from the cockpit of the plane, even going so far as to apologize profusely and beg anyone within earshot to rescue the poor souls trapped within. You can obviously tell it messed him up pretty badly after the fact if he refused to fly ever again. 😑
Today any jet requires a specific type rating to fly, I believe. Not sure if that was the case at the time, but if he had that much experience flying contemporary aircraft to the F86, three hours’ transition time isn’t unreasonable if he is a seasoned pilot. The other thing to consider, regarding his attempted climb angle, is that he may have been trying to comply with noise abatement or obstacle clearance procedures at that particular airport, especially if residential and commercial properties had grown up around the airport.
@@Chris-hq7nl It sounds as if Bingham realized too late that the Sabre was on the roll too slowly, and tried to yank it into the air instead of going off the end of the runway on the ground. Perhaps he was hoping against hope he could either "leap" the fence and building or even go round a tight circuit and stay inside the perimeter. What clearly happened instead was that the Sabre stalled (aerodynamically, that is, not an engine stall like a car) and fell back onto the runway...tragically retaining too much momentum. Incidentally Crown Assets had sold Sabre 5 23275, which became N275X, for parts only. It was not supposed to fly again. That wasn't because there was anything actually wrong with the Sabre itself, but it caused tremendous regulatory trouble as the investigation progressed...
Imagine going out for ice cream only to lose your entire family in just a few short moments, especially at such a young age. I hope that poor kid was able to live a full life afterwards, though I doubt anyone would ever be the same again after suffering that kind of trauma.
It was his fault. The guilt is appropriate. Those buildings didn't just appear from nowhere and he was aware of his lack of experience in the plane. I don't condemn him. We are all capable of causing someone's death by negligence in an instant. This is something I often forget when I'm driving my 4000 lb. car down the road at 45mph.
I couldn't understand why I never heard of this, and then I realized that just two weeks before the Munich Olympics Massacre had taken place, and this must have not gotten the recognition it would normally have received.
Interesting. I never heard about this one. I used to work at the end of a runway, at Pearson International Airport in Toronto,Canada. The planes used to shake the rafters and you couldn’t speak to your work partners when one flew over. Also, I was up on the roof one day and it was foggy, all I heard was a roar coming and it sounded like it was farther away, then all of a sudden, a 747 Jumbo Jet came right out of the fog, it seemed so close that I could see into the wheel bay doors as it landed. I just thought to myself, “if one of these jets loses control, we are all going to die”. We were situated at the exact angle and position to the runway as this Farrell’s Ice Cream shop was.
That's incredibly scary.😨 I love planes, but one thing I have always resolved is that I do NOT want to live or work in a building near the end of a runway! Planes are statistically very safe, but takeoff and landing is where things can definitely go wrong!
I hope you weren't there day that Air France plane overran the runway and just missed crashing into the 407(Unless my memory fails me and it was the 401 XD)
Did you work at the Wendy's/Tim Horton's? I remember going through the drive-through there and having to wait while the plane landed in order to continue speaking. The Air France crash was on a runway going the opposite direction of the one flashy5150 is talking about (if we're talking about the same place, but I only know of one runway at Pearson that heads towards buildings), the Air France plane went off a runway that ran parallel to the highway and into a small ravine. (Source: I was born and raised 5 mins from Pearson airport and both my parents and I worked there in the parking department.)
Not remotely the same but we had an air show where I live. I’m about 5 miles from the small local airport so we hear some planes but it’s not usually loud. The runways handle small passenger jets from SouthWest airlines and private jets. Until the Blue Angels (military jet show off group) came to town. None of the neighbors or I knew what was going on but they were taking off right over us for three days. Their wheels were practically brushing our roofs. The noise was deafening. My whole building, made of cinderblock, was shaking. It wasn’t til after the first day they spent swooping super low over our neighborhood for 2-3 hours that we found out what was going on. It was honestly terrifying at first and my dogs were super traumatized. I can’t even begin to imagine what it was like to people who live closer!
My wife and her sister were supposed to be at a birthday party there, but were late, fortunately. But their father did not know that. He was a Fire captain, a first responder who expected that his children had perished. There are photos of him at the scene in utter despair.
Loved to go to Farrells in my hometown, Flint, MI. Worst disaster there was when the waiters tripped while carrying one of the giant bowls of ice cream. Plus it was in Flint, MI.
We had a place similar to Farroughs and the biggest disaster that happened was when the waitress sat the huge ice cream soda down and the bottom broke off and the mess landed in my classmates lap.
My first job was at Ferrell’s In Escondido, CA.. I worked in the candy shops, where the guests checked out and could buy old-fashioned candy on the way out. It was so adorable and nostalgic. A happy place to work for a 15 year old.🍨 🍦 🍭 🍬
I loved that Farrell's. I went to the same summer camp in Julian for many years, and that was always our late lunch stop on the way home. We'd usually meet up with others from camp there, so it was one last extension of our week together before heading back to our normal lives. I was so sad to hear it had closed. Thanks to you and all the staff there for some wonderful memories.
@@richardmcavoy6413 Do you remember Farrell's? It was magical. When my kids were younger I heard there was a new one that opened not far from one that had closed many years prior that I remembered. I took my kids there for my son's 11th birthday and I was so disappointed. The ambiance wasn't there. Almost nothing memorable about the original was replicated. I remember the old-timey piano music playing and the neat old fashioned lighting and everything in there, dark wood furniture & bar where they sold all kinds of special candy. On birthdays a barber shop quartet would come out banging a huge drum and sing a capella in perfect harmony. The remake was just another restaurant and the hats they wore were the same style as the old ones but made of Styrofoam. They sold them for $16 each. My son said he wanted one and I told him no. I had told him previously about what Farrell's had been like before. It had class and style. I told him I could make a better hat for less than $16 and I did. I still have the hat I made for him just like the ones they used to wear.
I moved to Sacramento from San Jose in 1980 and had always enjoyed going to Farrell's in both cities. I had heard stories about the tragedy on Freeport Blvd., but never got a detailed story until this video. I'll try to visit the memorial plaque and pay my respects, as soon as I can. Thank you for the knowledge.
6:20 Jesus Christ.... I feel so bad for the 9 year old who lost his parents, grandparents, 3 siblings, and a couple cousins..... I really pray they’re alright and were able to overcome that tragedy but wow man I feel so fucking bad for them, I literally can’t even imagine losing my entire family like that .... 😧😔i
@T Paine how are you going to be all "Holy Roller" on everybody when you have songs like " I'm N Luv wit a stripper" "bootywork" "bartender" "Buy U a Drank" and "FBGM" shame on you T-Pain
My mom was actually 12 or so when this happened. she had a neighborhood friend who celebrated her birthday that night at the parlor and my grandma changed her mind last minute. She had a few friends pass in that accident.
Thanks for just saying your grandma changed her mind, and not telling us Jesus came from the clouds and spared your mom. It's a rare US youtube comment that avoids that dreck.
When I was a kid we went to one in S CA. And I always thought it was the only one! I wanted to take my kids there but heard it had closed down many years ago, wish I had known they were everywhere! And sad to findout the last one closed in 2019 too!
We had a Farrells in Eugene, Oregon and I never knew it was a chain either. I always thought it was the only one around. Lol It was the funnest place for birthday parties.
Honestly part of why I love your videos so much is because you don’t just leave it at “well that was horrific!” You actually say what’s changed because of the accidents/incidents.
The fact that the pilot wanted his rescuers to go save others from the wreckage really got to me. He really did feel guilty. He genuinely cared more for the people who's lives he put in danger than his own, at that point. I feel that it was his fault, though I don't blame him. Everyone watching this video has heard it and is sick of it, but we aren't perfect. I'm not a pilot, but I feel it's safe to say that the way a pilot reacts to obstructions and too-short runways would most likely be 'get off the ground.'
this. the man had to deal with this event plaguing his conscience the moment that aircraft crashed into the parlour. when a pilot sees something on the ground, instead of just trying to turn it away (like you would swerve a car to avoid hitting something or someone in the road), a pilot cant do that, as the plane would just rotate, and more than likely just crash. the only choice? either pray like hell that you slow down fast enough, or you bank on speed and pull the hell up. he knew that Option A was not a possible one, so he tried to bank on speed. sadly, as we know, speed was not enough to prevent tragedy. that CL-13 served proudly in the RCAF, and was lost in mere moments due to the pilot not having that crucial training and experience needed to fly such a beautiful beast.
@@StrabbyStrabby unfortunately making glib comments from the safety of your armchair is far too easy, I think it shows these people have never had to make a serious decision under extreme pressure, at take off speed the runway is dissappearing very fast, (60mph is 88feet per second, just a reference to think on), you don't get a lot of time to dwell on things, so when things go wrong you have but seconds, I wish people would think before they write.
That's so sad that those people were just trying to have a nice day with their families only to die that way. I can't imagine how that kid who lost his whole family felt. 😢
My mom and I were at that Farrell's that day. My mom later told me that not long after we got there I was begging her to leave. I was crying and telling her that we had to go...now! She got really upset at me because we used to always go there and she wanted some ice cream as well. Anyways, just minutes after we left the plane hit. I remember looking out of the back window of the car and seeing a huge plume of smoke, but not knowing where it came from. My dad was a Sacramento police officer at the time and was one of the first officers on the scene, but my mom and I had left just moments before...
@@DR-mq1vn Yes, I do. I was a kid so my memory is more like still pictures rather than a continuous "movie", but I do recall being there, waiting in the foyer for a table, being seated at the table, then pitching a fit and wanting to leave. I remember my mom being angry because she had just lit a cigarette (back when people smoked in restaurants) and she wanted ice cream. We finally left (after she finished her cigarette) and I was really impatient the whole time until we left. I also remember driving away from the restaurant and being on Freeport Blvd and on my knees looking out of the back window and seeing smoke (kids were not seat-belted back then - they just jumped around in the back seat like chimpanzees). Later, when I was older (maybe 15 or 16), I found out that my father was one of the first police officers on the scene and heard about the carnage. Makes one wonder...
@@mikesmusicden Thanks for answering me! I'm 55 so I remember how it was in the 70s. But what I wanted to know is if you remember your feelings that day. Do you remember if you felt something, and that is why you didn't want to stay? Can you remember any of that? And when the car was driving away, were you looking out the back window because you anticipated that something might happen? Also, have you had any other "gut feelings" since then?
Oh, wow. I'm having such a weird flashback. I went to college with a guy who said his older sisters had been killed in a plane crash at Farrell's, and that was the reason his parents had chosen to have him. At the time, I dismissed it (you hear lots of weird stories in dorms), but now I'm remembering that he was from Sacramento, and would have been born about two years later. 😔
I was there that day, nearby. We lived just around the corner, I remember…at Fruitridge and Florin Road. It was the last day for jets there, at the then-called Executive Airport.🌿🐇 It is very weird…to see the story reappear. Being just a kid…it was quite the experience for me, … to imagine how easily I could have been at that innocent birthday party.🌿🐇 My goodness.
The root of it is that the pilot did not know the "flight envelope" of the aircraft he was flying. The flight envelope covers all combinations of altitude, attitude and airspeed, and defines the safe zone for a given plane to fly in. He thought, "I'm in a jet fighter, I can take off at a very high pitch!" Wrong. He tried to take off and instead "stalled" - reached such a high pitch the wings couldn't sustain lift any more and promptly quit flying. So close to the ground, he had no chance of recovery from the stall, and the plane became an unguided bomb aimed straight at Farrell's. The airshow was at fault too, however. The proper thing (done at many airshows nowadays) would have been to have him take off at a proper airfield, fly to the show, do his passes, and fly BACK to the original field to land, with proper runways and buffers. If the Sabre was a static display, they should have just hauled it off on a truck and not tried to FLY it out of the airport. Poor planning by both the airfield and the airshow assured the disaster would happen even with a more experienced pilot.
@@daffers2345 A big problem with the Sabre was that it had small wings. That meant that it needed high speeds to fly in fighting trim. At low speeds, it was trying to get a brick into the air, and demanded great care in takeoffs and landings to prevent a sudden stall (and immediate crash). This pilot knew NONE of that. He was just about a passenger in his own plane once things started getting out of hand.
@@ArchTeryx00 Sabre Dance. The pilots had a song about the Super Sabre: Don't give me a one-o-o It's deadly to friend and foe' That old 'Saber dance" made me sh!t in my pants, Don't give me a one-o-o
@@P_RO_ True, but that doesn't apply here. Super Sabres are F-100s, this was a Canadian version of an F-86 Sabre. Where the F-86 would passively try to kill you (stall), the F-100 would actively make the attempt (tip stall in ground effect).
@@mfree80286 Both the F-86 and F-100 were also underpowered. The turbojet engines of that era were heavy for the amount of thrust they produced. Taking off in a Super Sabre could be very tricky. You had to make sure you got it going fast enough before you lifted off or you could end up in serious trouble. The thrust to weight ratio was well below 1:1 so it would not accelerate going straight up.
This tragedy is literally the stuff of my nightmares! Imagine going from just trying to enjoy eating ice cream with your family to then immediately being the sole survivor of your entire family in a matter of mere seconds…
Fascinating Horror has my vote as one of the most interesting TH-cam channels. The narrations are always concise and clear. The content well thought out with extensive research. And the stories are truly fascinating and horrible! Well done. Please keep them them coming.
@@allisonday893 Makes me think of the Wings episode where Joe is trying to get his brother to stop saying words like fascinating. Main producer writer of that show died on 9/11 plane. Here is bat biologist Bret Weinstein w/ mRNA vax inventor & optical mouse rich guy who talks too much revealing vax truth & generic treatments to save humans. Watch b4 it is taken down. I take the I med in vid. Will avoid the F. ( Columbine shooters ) Hope this info prevents bad things. th-cam.com/video/-_NNTVJzqtY/w-d-xo.html
I like the fact that the narrator does not waste energy trying to be emotional. The calm delivery does not shield the extreme empathy and sadness the viewer witnesses. Anything more would be pandering.
I was also 12 then, and was at the airshow all day, and watched the entire crash unfold. Earlier that day, I watched that F-86 racing a small yellow biplane all around Sacramento to promote the airshow. I was standing on an electrical box just below the tower to get a clear view. The jet got probably halfway down the runway and the nose went up, then the plane got around 25 feet high, then dropped. I then saw black tire smoke as he locked up the brakes, then a cloud of dust as it went off the end of the runway, slid around a 1/4 mile, still had a lot of speed at this point, hit the 10 foot embankment at Freeport Blvd where the fuel tanks exploded in a huge fireball. Even at 1/2 mile I was from the explosion, I felt the radiant heat instantly. I lost sight of it there, then saw the smoke coming from Farrells. My brother and I ran down Freeport towards the crash. We got there before any fire or rescue vehicles probably due to the traffic. I saw the hedges on Freeport burned, along with the street and sidewalks blackened. From there, the jet flew another 100 yards across the parking lot, but only 3 feet high, because all of the roofs of the cars had been sheared off by the plane, and the paint of the cars was blistered by the heat. My brother and I walked through the parking lot as fire department and police arrived. We were never told to leave, as I am sure they thought we must have been inside Farrells. Firemen carried bodies out and lined them up right in front of us. The bodies were all burned and unrecognizable. This is the actual crash( th-cam.com/video/xdwk00AwNdg/w-d-xo.html ) It is my understanding that the pilot Richard Bingham later crashed a P-51 on final.
@@beththompson2188 Its been many years, and I still remember it clearly. But, it may have been 10 feet up for all I know, but the angle I saw it from, it was definitely off the ground for a second.
@limelight81 I have now seen 8 planes crash, all at airshows. The last one was the P51 crash in Reno into the spectators. I was a mile out standing on my camp trailer, saw the whole thing. Just makes you sick. We knew it was bad.
Bingham was alive as late as 2012, living in Shasta County. The Sacramento Bee contacted him for a comment on the 40th anniversary of the crash, but he declined.
I saw the jet in the thumbnail, read the title. Looked back at the thumbnail, re-read the title. "Maybe he put the wrong image.... Surely... Oh god now I have to watch" And now I have to subscribe.
This acident reminds me of one that happened here in São Paulo, Brazil. In July 17, 2009 a TAM airline plane was trying to land at the airport (I forgot the name), it was raining, the runway wasn't fully finished and didn't had means to drain the acumullated water. In the end, the plane couldn't stop in time, went through the whole runway and crashed in a building. 199 people died
@@youtubegarbage7876 are you for fucking real? Doesn't matter if theyre American, Brazilian, or goddamn Afghanistani, every person is just as important as another. One American kids life is not worth any fucking more than one Brazilians life
@@youtubegarbage7876 or maybe just maybe, it is well known but your lazy ass just haven't go search it yet. It was covered on Air Crash Investigation, also known as Mayday! in some regions.
I drive by this location everyday going home from work. You can't drive by that spot without think about what happened there. It was way before my time, but definitely made a mark in Sacramento history.
Lately, I've become addicted to this channel. It makes me wonder where it's been all this time. I'm fascinated by historical events, as well as morbid curiosities, so it's basically a perfect channel for me. Well-restearched too.
Get divorced. The other half of your family will vanish in an instant. People you spent years with and loved dearly. Birthdays, Christmases every long weekend...maybe you even worked with them. This episode is tragic but people lose people every day without the death. Doesn't mean it hurts any less. Just saying.
I remember my dad would tell me this story whenever we would go to the Jack in the box that the Farrells was replaced with, I would sit in the drive through scared a plane would hit us. Edit: I know now that the Jack in the box isn’t in the same exact location just what I thought as a kid
the Fire/Police station across the street is actually the site...there is a memorial plaque there... Your father sounds like mine though lol.. always dramatic in a hilarious/funny way
"The biggest sundaes on offer were delivered on stretchers borne by multiple servers." OMG the Pig Trough was the bestest ice cream sundae ever. Of course I never had enough friends for the Zoo.
I had the Zoo. First grade? It must have been. I was required to invite the whole class as well as my brother's friends. So I liked at least one other person there. The Zoo was amazing and I wish I still had the little plastic zoo animals and other accessories. Is it McDonalds or the backyard for kids today? sad, sad, sad. The gift shop had a thousand kinds of candy. Rock candy that looked like real rocks of different colors. The big fat licorice ropes that probably gave a fair percentage of us dangerously high BP. No HFCS, no palm oil. The real deal, candy by candy.
Imagine trying to explain to your insurance company how your car was hit by a whale. How could a car be hit by a whale, you ask? Dynamite. Obviously. 20 cases, to be precise. November, 1970, Florence, Oregon.
Additional information: Kerri Francis McCluskey was almost 4 when her twin sister Kristi died in the plane crash. Kerri herself had a broken leg and some lighter wounds. As an adult, "McCluskey led the drive for a memorial rose garden, with its two metal benches, stone obelisk fountain, concrete marker and two metal plaques with the names of those killed. It was dedicated March 15, 2003, 'in loving memory' of the deceased." The pilot, Bingham, has declined to be interviewed, but has lived with this tragedy every day, and will continue to do so until he dies.
Here's an anomaly, I looked and didn't see Kristi McCluskey's name on any of the lists or on any of the memorials for the deceased . Did anybody else spot it?
Ours was by the movie theater (great location) and it was always packed. Rock candy on a string by the cash register and the everpresent Happy Birthday! Gads, but I miss that place....
I grew up in the 1970s, and one of my favorite places was Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor. Such wonderful childhood memories, and so sad that my own kids and grandkids never got to share those memories. I had never heard of this tragedy!
I had heard of it, but it didn’t happen in Torrance (my home town) even though there is an airport there. I have very fond memories of Farrell’s from when I was a kid and into my teens. Three friends and I ate The Zoo, so we got awarded ribbons for having made pigs of ourselves at Farrell’s. Good times...
@@YvetteArby Farrell's was the greatest! My cousin wanted a ribbon so bad that he finished a _huge_ thing of chocolate ice cream all by himself. When he stood up, he threw the whole thing up. He still got that ribbon though. 😄
The young twins, Kerri and Kristi, were the grandchildren of our next door neighbors in Sonora, CA and even though I was a few years older I met and played with them a few times. I remember this crash and my parents telling me what happened and was very shocked and saddened knowing I wouldn’t be seeing them together again. The grandparents/neighbors of course, were utterly devastated. Such a tragic event.
It was so nice! I celebrated several of my best birthdays there. My brother worked at ours in Birmingham while he was on college breaks. I had always wondered what had happened to the neat place. Well, I guess that I know what happened to one of them, unfortunately. Such a sad story. It did result in several improvements for the area, however. My prayers are with the victims and the survivors who were affected.
For those of you that are interested, there is one remaining Farrell's location inside Mountasia in Santa Clarita California if you're ever that direction and want to go
My parents took us to this Farrell’s every year after going to CalExpo, the California State Fair. What a horrifying ending to a memory, and tragedy for all the families
Just found this and whoa... I was there that day with my brother and we wanted to go to Farrells after the show. My grandmother and aunt had brought us to the show and were tired after a long day, saw the wait (line) and said "no", We ended up going to a drugstore down the street that had a soda fountain. As we were leaving we heard the "boom" and saw the fire. My brother and I wanted to go back and see what was happening but my grandmother floored it and got us home where we saw on tv what happened
thank you so much for not artificially deepening your voice, or putting on a cheesy "creepy" cadence to your speech to try to make it scarier or something. it's usually very cringy and ruins the atmosphere. regular speaking voice + the content in your videos makes for a MUCH creepier video!
It's one of the reasons I love this channel. I also like that he doesn't add his own opinion or try to bias things because he thinks a certain way. It's very factual, and that's scarier than any haunted house or horror movie, I think.
detritus /dɪˈtrʌɪtəs/ noun: - waste or debris of any kind. Learned a new word, thanks for that. Can't even imagine how bad that pilot must have felt. 😰😰😰
That two minute transition from "fun and lively atmosphere!" to "the legal height limits on buildings at the time were..." was such a jarring and well executed transition. I love this channel, you literally made learning safety regulations and law fascinating!
I have learnt from "Fascinating horror", that in the good old times, when there were no stupid safety laws or regulations and all kind of restrictions, the world was just as safe as it is today EXCEPT for: trams, bridges, amusement parks, waterparks, concert halls, theatres, clubs, shopping malls, ferries, beaches and ice cream parlors. And a few other places.
I loved that place! My favorite was the Gibson Girl sundae. The huge one was called The Zoo and it was usually for birthday parties. The waiters ran around the whole restaurant with it before coming to the table, all the while they had a siren playing and a big bell ringing. They also had a trough of ice cream, and if you ate it all, you got an award and they announced that you had made a pig of yourself at Farrell’s. It’s so sad what happened there. This was a place of so much happiness so this is absolutely tragic. 😭😭😭
When I was a kid and knew they were coming to our table with a ‘zoo’ I wanted to hide under the table! I got embarrassed easily! They had ‘clown sundaes’ and my favorite was the apple pandowdy sundae. Tasted like apple pie a la mode😋💕
I have to say thank you for this channel. There's a tendency these days to have podcasts and channels about tragedy and crime, and I largely dislike the content. But this channel has something those things don't: hope. Wherever you can, you find the positive - like the living memorial, which is very important (as a burn victim I'm endlessly grateful for burn clinics) and the ways in which policies have been changed and loopholes resolved. Thank you for sharing this.
I like to learn about crime and tragic events that happened in the past, even from recent years, but I like to hear about the positive outcomes that come out of those horrific incidents, like new safety laws and better infrastructure.
Forget the mall height limit. That airport and strip is not set up in a way that allows room for issues that are guaranteed to happen eventually. No room for error.
The real problem is that airports are planned for open spaces, and then urbanization creeps up on them. This was a relic from WWII, never meant to have anything else around it. Then time happens.
When I saw the thumbnail I was VERY confused...was this ice cream shop ON a plane? I couldn't have even imagined that a perfectly fine plane would just run right off the runway into a store built on the other side of it...
Shortly before they went out of business, I actually went to the Farrell’s in Sacramento. I learned about the crash from my grandmother as I was eating ice cream there. A bit disconcerting.
Yes I used to go all the time with my brother and friends to the Farrells in Walnut Creek California awesome place for a young kid growing up and I do remember this happening in Sacramento which is about an hour away from Walnut Creek very very sad horrible tragedy
Honestly though, as the world evolves and expands so does the risk and potential ways for disasters to happen. When someone made the scissors for the first time I highly doubt they considered the amount of people that would trip whilst holding them and stab theirself, they were more thrilled about the convenience of the invention. We all get chanced throughout our lives, I guarantee you that we've all been in a position where a freak accident could of happened, but we never realise it or if we do, we think a long the same lines as the person who ignored the sign height reccommendation, because the probability is sooo high that it hasn't even happened to anyone yet so we basically run the lottery. You are blessed to be in a time where this happened over 50 years ago, where you have the foresight of collective human knowledge gained since this event that allows you be on this pedestal. I say it like this because this channels comment section, whilst amazing, is full of people on a health and safety pedestal, talking about times where health and safety were lesser known and less respected due to the lack of accidents.
Basically, to ramp up my point to the extreme; it's like me saying Cavemen and Neanderthals were stupid and I can't believe they couldn't start a fire and when they did they'd most likely burn down whatever they had. Like, just start a fire and don't get burnt, is it that hard? Super easy for me to say when I'm living in a time where I have a lighter in my pocket, more than 30 IQ, a developed brain, a sense of threat and danger, and a fire service that will save my ass if an accident happens. There must be a word that describes ignorance to privilege and hypocrisy. Because that's what that is. Not flaming you, but mindless comments that are used with a sense of ego (whether knowing or unknowingly) with holes in bug me idk why.
High respect for that last part of this video (when youtubers use their influence for good) , citing the firefighters burn foundation it true CLASS , and will help them , I don't have a thing to do with them I'm on the other side of the map , but your including this PSA in the end of you video is priceless and I for one very strongly THANK YOU for doing such things , not only are these videos very well researched and edited , they as well can do continued good for those who want to help and serve . Again So Very Well Done , Keep up the good work for sure ! 👍🤙
It’s just so unfortunate that these events have to happen for oversights to be taken seriously. It’s just upsetting and I can’t imagine what these families go through…
The little girl who survived the ordeal is ten years older than me. It happened 4 days and 2 years before I was born. Very sad. I hope she has been living a good life filled with new family that fill her life with happiness.
The Brumit's, from Meadow Vista, CA. where the couple killed in the car the jet hit crossing the road that day. Sadly they we're going to visit their son Terry in the hospital due to his being in a serious go-kart accident. I moved away shortly after that and always wondered how Terry Brumit coped with type of loss.
Strange that the traffic was still moving. 1 car that had had a jet plough through it, that same jet blazing and stuck in the side of an ice cream parlour, but the traffic was still moving...
@@dougaltolan3017 Maybe the vehicle had seen the carnage and turned around to drive away from it and the couple running across the road weren't expecting a vehicle to be coming from that direction? Just a thought.
In 1972 I was delivering flowers in Sacramento. Days after this tragedy, I delivered elaborate floral arrangements, paid for by aviation attorneys, to the families of victims. Sometimes, I'd park behind other flower delivery vans, also delivering bouquets, sympathy cards and business cards from other lawyers. My cousin was working at Farrell's that day, but had gone home not long before the Sabre Jet came through the door.
Man, most of these make me angry, because these disasters are usually the result of negligence, laziness, and/or greed. Now while there was a little bit of that here, this still mostly feels like the tragic result of honest mistakes, and that makes this so much sadder.
"How do you possibly have a disaster in an ice cream parlor?"
*Rams an airplane into the wall.*
"Oh... Yeah. That would do it."
That's exactly what I thought when I saw the title! "At an ice cream parlor? What the??"
imagine just going to get an ice cream and getting killed by a rogue aeroplane
Thats what happens when you let the koolaid man fly a plane
@@joshmitchell5654 Takin' out the competition, clearly.
Look up the Taco Bell crash, don't be eating.
It was "only" a motorcycle, but the energy gained from high speeds has to go somewhere.
"Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour"
*[Thumbnail is a fighter jet]*
Something's wrong, I can feel it...
I thought it might have been an Ariel ice cream parlour on board a plane for some reason from he thumbnail
😂
I was trying to figure out how the heck those two went together.
Turns out, they don't.
@@luvondarox They kind of did go together pretty fast I would say.
At first glance, I thought it was a Mini Air Crash Investigation video.
Haha I could point out the channel's called Fascinating Horror so everything is probably gonna be wrong
Seeing all those matching last names in the list really showed how families were devastated.
My thoughts exactly🥲
Thank you Captain obvious. 🤦♀️
@@catlady8324 was there really a need to be so rude?
@@braye1198 That was not so very rude. That was mild sarcasm. Don’t be so fragile and grow thicker skin.
@@catlady8324 Damn CatLady calm your shit 💀
My parents are friends with the eight year old who survived who lost his whole family in this video, he is now happily married with children, i grew up with his son. They are a happy family.
I of course cannot account for how his childhood was directly after the incident, but he NOW has a normal life with a big family
That is good news to hear after reading about the man by one of the commenters above this post. I remember now the story about this. I was a teenager then.
That's a relief to hear. I hope he's doing well mentally.
Tell Stephen hello from someone who went to elementary school with him
In situations like that after such events, It leaves you with only 2 choices.
Get on with living, Or get on with dying.
Its 0 or 1, Yes or no?
I cannot imagine the heartbreak that sole survivor of the family of nine went through. They didn’t just lose one loved one that day, they lost them all.
Just as sad as the lonely survivor of the Lago Maggiore Cablecar collapse recently in Italy, where only a young boy survived, losing all his family in this incident.
Yes, I can't even imagine how horrific that would be. Heartbreaking just doesn't cut it. That poor child :(
I bet said "poor child" grew up and eventually had a giant family of his own.
What gets me is that a 12 year knew this wasn't going to happen and the experienced pilot didn't. Hubris, maybe?
But man, the loss of so many families is just gut wrenching.
@@mountainman4987?
The one kid losing essentially their whole family in an instant just ripped my heart to pieces. I couldn't even imagine the grief and despair that little one had.
Hippity hoppity your family’s soul is now my property
@@rockhouse7485 why
Sounds like the story of a girl who lost her family in the crash of northwest flight 255
And he did not even mention the kid's ice cream!
I'm sure that kid got paid an ungodly amount. Still won't bring his family back tho
Imagine losing both parents, grandparents and most your siblings in a flash. That’s the definition of losing everything
So, when you think the worst has happened to you, but you still have your health, think about what that kid went through and multiply it many times.
He was raised by his late father's brother, and by his two aunts on his mom's side, both of whom were also at Farrells and survived.
Hey, no one to fight over the inheritance... Silver lining?
I see this as a superhero origin story.
And his ice cream melted
"everything worth eating has calories" you know what? This is my new motto.
You might not think that way after they cut off your leg because you are morbidly obese and have diabetes and did nothing about it except getting fatter and lazier.
i eat how i want and agree 100% im 150lbs and eat like a horse, caloroes for life!
😂love the username
@@JohnS916 when being narcissistic is your entire personality.
@@JohnS916 damn dude its just a humorous comment ya debbie downer lol
Now this whole thing is a tragedy, but the grand parents getting run over by a truck trying to reach their grand children who weren't even there just broke me.
a passing car was hit by the jet as it crossed the highway. The two occupants were killed.
Don't forget the dozens of kids Mr obvious
@@Utubesanarc I'm confused with your response. I found the info about the car which was struck on a wiki entry. Many articles don't mention those two fatalities -they only mention a car was struck while the jet crossed the highway. The jet could have clipped the car with no loss of life. I' assume the jet was afire by then and set the struck car afire.
that poor grandmother likely died never knowing if her grand kids were in the restaurant or not. That truly is tragic.
@@Utubesanarc Thanks edgelord.
The survivor’s guilt the pilot must have felt is something I can’t imagine. Especially considering that it was families and children and that several probably died from burns which is a horrific way to go. This might be one of the most upsetting stories I’ve heard from this channel in a long time.
Same, I’d probably not want to ever get up out of bed after something like that, absolutely heartbreaking
@@danielbierwirth2190 i would honestly do the same. I don’t think I could ever live with myself if I knew that so many innocent beings who just wanted a snack died at my hands.
@@danielbierwirth2190 I think you have things a little bit mixed up - it was the owner of the jet who died in a high speed dive in a P-51 about a year after the original incident. I don't know whether that was suicide because there was a passenger, too, so it would be a doubly awful thing to for him to do.
@@seanbreheny9777 Is that what it was.... It was a long time ago. Now that you have stirred up the cobwebs in my brain, (thank you very much for that dust storm), you are right. I was 14 or so at the time. I don't know why I've always thought it was the pilot of the Saber Jet, but I remember many years ago, my dad telling me once I had it wrong. Well thanks for setting me and the record straight.
@@star-tc7xv I was just corrected, it wasn't the pilot who died in the Mustang by Suicide. My brain had 2 related stories crossed. It was the "OWNER" of the Jet who was killed about a year later in the Mustang. My brain combined those stories. So I wanted to admit my error up front. Its sad to get old and have your brain compact your life into a 3 minute video.
My dad's best friend was working at Farrells when this happened, he didn't like to talk about it, but one time he did tell us about how he ended up tossing children through a broken window to get them out of the burning building, he had burns all over his arms from it, such a terrible tragedy.
Sad
Tossing of children through a window? Dirty sod
@@retrowatches1655 please tell me you're joking, the building was covered in jet fuel and burning
@@Comanchee0689 it was you that said he was tossing children....
@@retrowatches1655 and?
My former neighbor Kerri, who lost her twin, was the one that campaigned for and got the memorial installed. She was a lovely woman. You would not have known she had such a tragedy in her life. I remember when this happened. We were frequent customers of Farrell’s and Sacramento was a regular stop on family vacations. Kerri spoke of “the accident” but never elaborated. When I found out WHICH accident, my heart broke for her. I was sad to hear she had passed away several years after her family moved away. (Natural causes) The twins are together again.
I was there. I'm from Sac too. I remember this like it was yesterday.
I went to high school with Kerri.
How are they together if they're both dead?
Imagine just getting ice cream and out of nowhere a goddamn plane crashes into the place
I wanted a waffle cone, not a nose cone :(
@@Ingestedbanjo thats dark :)
Well not exactly out of nowhere haha. There was an airport next it after all
Only in California!
It wasn't to be the last one. Ten years later, a Cessna crashed in front of the same shop, this time in the parking lot.
I'm honestly super impressed that more than a memorial plaque came out of this. A major charity being set up in response to this so that other burn victims can recieve better medical treatment is just about the best memorial possible
Agreed, Andrea. The Cocoanut Grove Fire and the Hartford Circus Fire (both also on Fascinating Horror) led to improvements in burn care. But a center that can perform continuing research is a huge benefit to medicine.
Agreed, every year on the weekend of the memorial the local fire academies have all of the cadets at street corners around the greater Sacramento area with fire boots to fill with donations for the burn center. They make millions of dollars every year from that alone.
@@davidcox3076 having a center is better than having to keep having terrible fires.
I feel so bad for those grandparents who ran across the street to help and got hit my a truck. I bet they were so focused on the disaster that they didn’t even consider checking the street
As a grandparent, I can absolutely attest to that. I would run toward any kind of danger if any of my kids or grands were in trouble. Familial Love is like that, I’d die for any of them❤️
Does anyone know where she was when she was hit? I feel like a truck should have been going slow when there was that much chaos all over the street and surrounding buildings.
And for the truck driver, a person runs out in front of you and you carry the guilt of hitting them for the rest of your life
@@05pittsd No idea but a truck doesn't have to be going very fast at all to kill someone. About a year ago where I live, a cyclist collided with a truck that was getting ready to pull out of a parking lot and died from a head injury. The driver in this video could have been negligent but it's just as likely that it was out of their control.
@@gomphrena-beautifulflower-8043 lol the cycle of life 😂😂😂
My father and I were on our way to get ice cream there. I remember the fire trucks screaming by and we kept driving towards the ice cream parlor and as we drove by my father and I were in shock. It was a sad day and I am glad my dad took his time at Sears.
You really should have planned better to get there in time. I hope that you have better luck the next time with your travel plans. Bon voyage !!!
@@joekulik999 What a messed up comment.
My parents and older siblings (I hadn't been born yet) were going to church at that day and arrived a few minutes after it happened. My sister remembers seeing a firefighter working his way along the roof. They heard about what had happened on the radio.
@@joekulik999you are evil
The fact the pilot was distraught and wanted others to be rescued shows that he was truly sorry for what he did and not so much over the consequences he would face.
And the fact that he never piloted a plane again speaks volumes about how he felt, as well
@@ronstreet6706 Even with all the mitigating circumstances Imagaine trying to live with that on your conscience for the rest of your life. It would be game over for me for certain.
I feel like having honest, legitimate regret for something is what opens the door to forgiveness. The victims deserve all the sympathy and support in situations like this, but you'd need a heart of stone to not feel at least a little pity for someone who just signed up for a lifetime of guilt by making one bad choice.
@@ronstreet6706 The picture shows him in a wheelchair. It could be that his injuries left him medically unable to fly a plane, in addition to whatever regrets he may have felt.
This made me cry. That guy is going to die regretting that he ever learned to fly a plane.
I really like how he talks about the aftermath and any changes that came from the disaster. Instead of leaving it so sensational, it’s good to remember good things that can come out of these tragic events.
The good thing that comes out of these tragedies, is that people horrified by the tragedy immediately do whatever they must to make it so another tragedy like it doesn't happen again.
I had completely forgotten about this tragedy, this accident is something out of a “Final Destination” movie. You just never know when it’s your time.
just like when car accidents continue to happen at a dangerous accident, until one epic tragic one, then they add a traffic light.
If my children had died in this incident, I would have killed the entire families of the pilot and the owner. That's the only "outcome" that matters.
@@archenema6792 What the hell is wrong with you?
I loved Ferrells as a kid growing up in the 70's. It was a magical place, I can't imagine such horror erupting from such a happy experience.
I had only been to a Ferrells once and it was a sensation overload for me as a child. It was in Memphis and we were there on a trip from Atlanta. I'm the youngest of three and my oldest brother, without my knowledge, had told the waitress that it was my birthday. Next thing I know, there's all kinds of racket, bells, whistles and lights flashing with a string of employees coming to our table while singing. I was so embarrassed but grew used to being the target of many pranks from my older brothers and I gave them their fair share as well.
Growing up as a child in the 60’s , Farrells ice cream parlor was our favorite place to celebrate our birthdays as kids! It was so much fun , with these humongous bowls of ice cream that we’d share with our friends and just be in ice cream heaven! Those were certainly the good old days that I’ll always treasure🥰✌🏼🍨🎂🍰🍦🍧
@@babiejo59 Do you remember "The pig's trough"?
@@guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248 Yes! That place was amazing! My brother and I couldn’t wait until it was our birthday to celebrate with our friends and dig into such deliciousness 🍨🍧🍦
@@guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248Yes!!!! 😭
"Ice cream parlor disaster."
Oh, it's gonna be a structural failure or fire or-
[Picture of jet plane]
Oh. Oh no
I had pictured something like the Great Molasses Flood, only with ice cream.
@Jessica Jujubean Now *that* would be a sticky predicament.
Prices are too high! FOX 2! FOX 2!!
I was honestly expecting a fire, and/or people being killed in some kind of crush because the building had a shitty design with the fire escapes welded shut etc.
Seems fairly standard for the era.
From watching your videos, I feel incredibly unsafe where ever I go 🤣
That is a fascinating kind of horror 🧐
Oh you do? You feel unsafe where ever you go?
It's always places you'd never expect!
Fortunately your own videos help a lot to make me feel safer. ;-)
Great videos m8
The title: Ice cream parlor
The thumbnail: A fighter jet
Everyone with at least half a brain cell: Oh no, here we go
Tbh I didn’t know what Farrel’s was before this video so I just assumed that it was an ice cream parlor stationed in the shell of an old retired fighter jet
@@Defectum138 I thought for a hot sec the plane was like a mobile ice cream parlor.
So is this whwre the inspiration for the paris chase scene in the peanuts movie
Man, will you give that shit a rest?
@Making America Great Again - TRUMP'S DUMPED! no surprise your an American
Oh my god. I live in Sacramento, and my grandpa was a morgue worker all his life. He was on the scene of this, collecting the bodies. He talked about it as his most traumatizing moment at his job, in over 40 years of work. I've heard about this all my life, surreal to see a video on it
What did he say of the victims appearance?
@@leae3750 I dont think he'd ever truly say that, other than that it was emotionally breaking. He died 2 years ago so...I unfortunately can't ask him anymore.
@Skydaddy Myth-Busters Pshhh say no more
My late step-father Hamish was a medical examiner most of his life, started working as a funeral director, got his medical education and degrees, then worked in a morgue at the city hospital where he worked with the bodies of those who’d passed and determine cause of death. He dealt with the Piper Alpha incident, massive incident that happened off the NE Scottish coast, it was a massive explosion on an oil rig platform where 167 died. It left him with PTSD and he developed alcoholism due to it, and despite loving his job as a medical examiner, the disaster made him leave his job, the trauma was just too much. I imagine Hamish’s experience is akin to your grandfather, Hamish didn’t talk about it in detail very often, he massively struggled with it, he’d mention it from time-to-time and would be extremely somber on the anniversary every year, but he never fully went into details, just said most of the deceased were not whole and it was mostly parts of people he saw. I don’t blame him for not wanting to speak about it in detail, I’m assuming your grandfather is much the same.
@@leae3750 I was 12 when this happened, and I watched it happen, then ran down Freeport Blvd to Farrells with my brother. We walked across Freeport into Farrells parking lot. There we saw men carrying bodies out and lining them up on the lot. We stood right next to the bodies, and my 10 year old brother said "It killed a bunch of black people". He didn't realize they were all burned unrecognizable. The bodies I saw were intact, just badly burned.
My father grew up in Sacramento, and was about 11 years old when this happened. The way his generation remembers it, Farrell's was so popular most people in town could claim they had either recently visited the shop, or were planning to within the near future. "Either you had just come from Farrell's, or you were just about to go."
I still have the BD invitation for the free ice cream treat. Yes it was very popular place to be. Yes good thing we couldn’t make it. I can thank Mr Reagan for having my aunt work that day! ❤️
I'm really surprised to hear that they were around for so long - finally going out of business just two years ago.
A lot of regulations and procedures we have today are written in blood of our forefathers, especially in regards to aviation.
And there was always someone fighting against the regulations until carnage happened.
How often does anyone hear the phrase, "What could possibly go wrong"?
"Tombstone technology."
That’s the entire history of auto racing
I used to be a commercial pilot years ago; our nickname for the FAA was The Tombstone Agency because they never acted until someone died. And unfortunately oft times in aviation incidents it's a lot of people who die.
The idea that "well the obstacles already there haven't caused any problems, so we'll add more!" is crazy to me!
Well, the sign at least was only _slightly_ above the limit and was _shorter_ than what else was there already.
Sounds like "this isn't causing trouble, let's make it cause trouble" logic
Army something something "If it ain't broke, we'll fix it until it is"
The sign made no difference. After all, it was a ground level crash
It just helps show how little care was taken in general
@@ConnorNotyerbidness it did make a difference, it and some trees at the end or something are what caused the pilot to take off at such a steep angel
Once I saw the title and the image, I immediately remembered my mom talking about the incident when I was younger. She was born and raised in Sacramento. Her and her friends were going to the ice cream store but her friend left her money at home. Her friend insisted they run home and get her money. When they came back, the plane had already crashed. I remember my mom got emotional talking about it. She only mentioned it once.
Grew up in Sacramento as well (though this happened a little over 4 years before I was born), and we'd drive right by the airport and strip mall to get to church (among other places during the week). My family was headed to church and arrived not long after it happened, and they had to detour around the area, not knowing until later (when they heard about it on the radio) as to what exactly had happened (though they could see the smoke, and my sister remembers getting enough of a view of the building that she remembers seeing a firefighter up on the roof trying to help fight the flames).
Miracle
The pilot likely spent the rest of his life wishing he had not survived.
the pilot spent the rest of his brief life drinking himself to death. He died while I was at UC-Davis . either 1979 0r possibly 1980.
@@Mr1borrego2 A shame, but sadly understandable.
@@Mr1borrego2 Wow. That’s so sad.
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@@Mr1borrego2 Not true, as of the 40th anniversary of the accident in 2012 he was still living in Northern California. He was contacted by the Sacramento paper to make a statement, and declined.
We lost a friend and his daughter in this accident. He had taken her there for her birthday, along with several of her friends.
The primary reason for the crash was the pilot using a short runway and the temperature which was high creating low air density on takeoff
So sorry for your loss
Horrible
Yes, the pilot decided to use a short runway, he wasn’t up to extending it to accommodate his airplane & didn’t feel like chugging across to a longer freeway. Sorry for your loss... I then saw blame also put onto new sign on ice-cream store distracted the pilot...!
@@WLHS
"Distracted the pilot???"
Ridiculous.
Watch any video of ant big plane coming into San Diego International Airport.
Steepest required landing angle on the US...and THOUSANDS of surrounding tall buildings and other distractions.
Fortunately, the take off side is over the water.
Which I imagine might also pose a distraction.
My deepest condolences, my family and I would have been there at the time but decided to go another day.....
"Felt like he mastered the controls after a few 1 hour flights" sounded like a recipe for disaster and it was. I'm so addicted to this channel right now
To be fair, it wasn’t entirely his fault as the video stated that regulations at that particular airport had been unacceptably lax for quite some time. I feel bad for that dude by the way since it was clear he was absolutely distraught over the damage he caused albeit accidentally following his removal from the cockpit of the plane, even going so far as to apologize profusely and beg anyone within earshot to rescue the poor souls trapped within. You can obviously tell it messed him up pretty badly after the fact if he refused to fly ever again. 😑
He should know he was at the wrong angle, and aborted take off, no matter which plane he's in.
Usually you can do it but if something goes wrong ....It's straight to Fascinating Horror.
Today any jet requires a specific type rating to fly, I believe. Not sure if that was the case at the time, but if he had that much experience flying contemporary aircraft to the F86, three hours’ transition time isn’t unreasonable if he is a seasoned pilot. The other thing to consider, regarding his attempted climb angle, is that he may have been trying to comply with noise abatement or obstacle clearance procedures at that particular airport, especially if residential and commercial properties had grown up around the airport.
@@Chris-hq7nl It sounds as if Bingham realized too late that the Sabre was on the roll too slowly, and tried to yank it into the air instead of going off the end of the runway on the ground. Perhaps he was hoping against hope he could either "leap" the fence and building or even go round a tight circuit and stay inside the perimeter. What clearly happened instead was that the Sabre stalled (aerodynamically, that is, not an engine stall like a car) and fell back onto the runway...tragically retaining too much momentum.
Incidentally Crown Assets had sold Sabre 5 23275, which became N275X, for parts only. It was not supposed to fly again. That wasn't because there was anything actually wrong with the Sabre itself, but it caused tremendous regulatory trouble as the investigation progressed...
Imagine going out for ice cream only to lose your entire family in just a few short moments, especially at such a young age. I hope that poor kid was able to live a full life afterwards, though I doubt anyone would ever be the same again after suffering that kind of trauma.
Man I feel so bad for the pilot, imagine the guilt he'd carry for the rest of his life
Probably better than losing everyone in your family... But I get it. I was not surprised when he said he never piloted again.
It was his fault. The guilt is appropriate. Those buildings didn't just appear from nowhere and he was aware of his lack of experience in the plane. I don't condemn him. We are all capable of causing someone's death by negligence in an instant. This is something I often forget when I'm driving my 4000 lb. car down the road at 45mph.
Øystein A. *losing, not loosing.
@@jumpinjojo I personally agree with you but a lot of Americans use double O in lose
@@chaunceyspringett5523 I say this as an American...they are still wrong. It's definitely lose. Our education system fails us.
I couldn't understand why I never heard of this, and then I realized that just two weeks before the Munich Olympics Massacre had taken place, and this must have not gotten the recognition it would normally have received.
National news wouldn't have covered it. Just 3 networks and 30 minutes each. The newspapers picked it up.
now i want to know what the Munich Olympics massacre was!
@@lizbrown6943 nonsense. A military aircraft crashing into a building killing civilians? It would have been everywhere.
@@Cosber9621 Yeah but so would a terrorist attack involving the olympics
@@carrielange2692 a bunch of terrorist killing a bunch of Jews. Same as it ever was.
Interesting. I never heard about this one. I used to work at the end of a runway, at Pearson International Airport in Toronto,Canada. The planes used to shake the rafters and you couldn’t speak to your work partners when one flew over. Also, I was up on the roof one day and it was foggy, all I heard was a roar coming and it sounded like it was farther away, then all of a sudden, a 747 Jumbo Jet came right out of the fog, it seemed so close that I could see into the wheel bay doors as it landed. I just thought to myself, “if one of these jets loses control, we are all going to die”. We were situated at the exact angle and position to the runway as this Farrell’s Ice Cream shop was.
That's incredibly scary.😨
I love planes, but one thing I have always resolved is that I do NOT want to live or work in a building near the end of a runway! Planes are statistically very safe, but takeoff and landing is where things can definitely go wrong!
I hope you weren't there day that Air France plane overran the runway and just missed crashing into the 407(Unless my memory fails me and it was the 401 XD)
Did you work at the Wendy's/Tim Horton's? I remember going through the drive-through there and having to wait while the plane landed in order to continue speaking.
The Air France crash was on a runway going the opposite direction of the one flashy5150 is talking about (if we're talking about the same place, but I only know of one runway at Pearson that heads towards buildings), the Air France plane went off a runway that ran parallel to the highway and into a small ravine. (Source: I was born and raised 5 mins from Pearson airport and both my parents and I worked there in the parking department.)
maaan i would shit my pants.
Not remotely the same but we had an air show where I live. I’m about 5 miles from the small local airport so we hear some planes but it’s not usually loud. The runways handle small passenger jets from SouthWest airlines and private jets.
Until the Blue Angels (military jet show off group) came to town. None of the neighbors or I knew what was going on but they were taking off right over us for three days. Their wheels were practically brushing our roofs. The noise was deafening. My whole building, made of cinderblock, was shaking. It wasn’t til after the first day they spent swooping super low over our neighborhood for 2-3 hours that we found out what was going on. It was honestly terrifying at first and my dogs were super traumatized. I can’t even begin to imagine what it was like to people who live closer!
My wife and her sister were supposed to be at a birthday party there, but were late, fortunately. But their father did not know that. He was a Fire captain, a first responder who expected that his children had perished. There are photos of him at the scene in utter despair.
I cannot imagine his agony
@@arribaficationwineho32or his relief
Loved to go to Farrells in my hometown, Flint, MI. Worst disaster there was when the waiters tripped while carrying one of the giant bowls of ice cream. Plus it was in Flint, MI.
That made me laugh more than it should have.
This shouldn't be funny. And yet...
with the size of them.. that would have been a disaster "kid died/was injured, when huge trough of icecream is dropped on their head"
We had a place similar to Farroughs and the biggest disaster that happened was when the waitress sat the huge ice cream soda down and the bottom broke off and the mess landed in my classmates lap.
Grand Rapids. The worst there was an out-of-control ice cream fight that my friend started. Good times.🥴🙄😁
My first job was at Ferrell’s In Escondido, CA.. I worked in the candy shops, where the guests checked out and could buy old-fashioned candy on the way out. It was so adorable and nostalgic. A happy place to work for a 15 year old.🍨 🍦 🍭 🍬
I loved Farrell’s! I just wrote about the candy shop!
Now kids first jobs are only fans..
I loved that Farrell's. I went to the same summer camp in Julian for many years, and that was always our late lunch stop on the way home. We'd usually meet up with others from camp there, so it was one last extension of our week together before heading back to our normal lives. I was so sad to hear it had closed. Thanks to you and all the staff there for some wonderful memories.
I'm super bummed to hear that the chain is gone. This was the first time I'd even heard of it. Sounds like it was a fun place. :(
That legit sounds like a pretty awesome job lol
I loved Farrell's. I still remember eating a "Pike's Peak" (A four person sized sundae) the day before getting my wisdom teeth pulled.
What happened? Why did they go out of business?
@@richardmcavoy6413 Do you remember Farrell's? It was magical. When my kids were younger I heard there was a new one that opened not far from one that had closed many years prior that I remembered. I took my kids there for my son's 11th birthday and I was so disappointed. The ambiance wasn't there. Almost nothing memorable about the original was replicated. I remember the old-timey piano music playing and the neat old fashioned lighting and everything in there, dark wood furniture & bar where they sold all kinds of special candy. On birthdays a barber shop quartet would come out banging a huge drum and sing a capella in perfect harmony. The remake was just another restaurant and the hats they wore were the same style as the old ones but made of Styrofoam. They sold them for $16 each. My son said he wanted one and I told him no. I had told him previously about what Farrell's had been like before. It had class and style. I told him I could make a better hat for less than $16 and I did. I still have the hat I made for him just like the ones they used to wear.
I loved the "Pigs Trough" 😍😍 a group eat sundae.
Yes nice 😋
I never had one, but I remember those and the pig troughs. And the giant base drum for birthdays (1970s-1980 San Fernando Valley CA)
I moved to Sacramento from San Jose in 1980 and had always enjoyed going to Farrell's in both cities. I had heard stories about the tragedy on Freeport Blvd., but never got a detailed story until this video. I'll try to visit the memorial plaque and pay my respects, as soon as I can. Thank you for the knowledge.
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Jesus Christ.... I feel so bad for the 9 year old who lost his parents, grandparents, 3 siblings, and a couple cousins..... I really pray they’re alright and were able to overcome that tragedy but wow man I feel so fucking bad for them, I literally can’t even imagine losing my entire family like that .... 😧😔i
Idek if he's out there traumatized from ice cream palors or jet planes. That's tragic. :(
That's what I was thinking. Christmas, birthdays, Thanksgiving etc...hell; anything regarding family would be shot.
@T Paine literally nobody cares
@@SyMyGuyy not true. Many care.
@T Paine how are you going to be all "Holy Roller" on everybody when you have songs like " I'm N Luv wit a stripper" "bootywork" "bartender" "Buy U a Drank" and "FBGM" shame on you T-Pain
My mom was actually 12 or so when this happened. she had a neighborhood friend who celebrated her birthday that night at the parlor and my grandma changed her mind last minute. She had a few friends pass in that accident.
Thanks for just saying your grandma changed her mind, and not telling us Jesus came from the clouds and spared your mom. It's a rare US youtube comment that avoids that dreck.
I grew up in Portland and went to Farrell's all the time. Never knew it was a chain. And was shocked to hear that the last one closed in 2019.
We had one in our local mall in Houston where I grew up. My friend worked there for several years. Great memories. So sad this one
When I was a kid we went to one in S CA. And I always thought it was the only one! I wanted to take my kids there but heard it had closed down many years ago, wish I had known they were everywhere! And sad to findout the last one closed in 2019 too!
Have birthday memories from one in San Jose. Don't recall this (too young I guess).. such a tragedy .
We had a Farrells in Eugene, Oregon and I never knew it was a chain either. I always thought it was the only one around. Lol It was the funnest place for birthday parties.
Honestly part of why I love your videos so much is because you don’t just leave it at “well that was horrific!” You actually say what’s changed because of the accidents/incidents.
The fact that the pilot wanted his rescuers to go save others from the wreckage really got to me. He really did feel guilty. He genuinely cared more for the people who's lives he put in danger than his own, at that point.
I feel that it was his fault, though I don't blame him. Everyone watching this video has heard it and is sick of it, but we aren't perfect. I'm not a pilot, but I feel it's safe to say that the way a pilot reacts to obstructions and too-short runways would most likely be 'get off the ground.'
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this. the man had to deal with this event plaguing his conscience the moment that aircraft crashed into the parlour. when a pilot sees something on the ground, instead of just trying to turn it away (like you would swerve a car to avoid hitting something or someone in the road), a pilot cant do that, as the plane would just rotate, and more than likely just crash. the only choice? either pray like hell that you slow down fast enough, or you bank on speed and pull the hell up. he knew that Option A was not a possible one, so he tried to bank on speed. sadly, as we know, speed was not enough to prevent tragedy. that CL-13 served proudly in the RCAF, and was lost in mere moments due to the pilot not having that crucial training and experience needed to fly such a beautiful beast.
No sorry pilot was a dumb az
@@Utubesanarc well, you have your opinions, and I have mine.
@@StrabbyStrabby unfortunately making glib comments from the safety of your armchair is far too easy, I think it shows these people have never had to make a serious decision under extreme pressure, at take off speed the runway is dissappearing very fast, (60mph is 88feet per second, just a reference to think on), you don't get a lot of time to dwell on things, so when things go wrong you have but seconds, I wish people would think before they write.
Losing one family member is heartbreaking enough. I can't imagine losing 9.
And being a young child, on top of that
Yeah for real I’d imagine all their memories would just go through your mind and you’d never be happy again
Ever heard of northwest airlines flight 255? Similar story, but the little becomes the only survivor in the crash.
That's so sad that those people were just trying to have a nice day with their families only to die that way. I can't imagine how that kid who lost his whole family felt. 😢
I have learned in my 74 yrs.....we can be gone in the blink of the eye, life is so short.....
@@ThePHYL took you that long to learn the obvious?
@@v-town1980 don’t be an ass 🙄
Fate
My mom and I were at that Farrell's that day. My mom later told me that not long after we got there I was begging her to leave. I was crying and telling her that we had to go...now! She got really upset at me because we used to always go there and she wanted some ice cream as well. Anyways, just minutes after we left the plane hit. I remember looking out of the back window of the car and seeing a huge plume of smoke, but not knowing where it came from. My dad was a Sacramento police officer at the time and was one of the first officers on the scene, but my mom and I had left just moments before...
Thank you for sharing that.
Wow
Oh wow! Do you remember crying and telling her that you had to leave now? Do you remember any of that?
@@DR-mq1vn Yes, I do. I was a kid so my memory is more like still pictures rather than a continuous "movie", but I do recall being there, waiting in the foyer for a table, being seated at the table, then pitching a fit and wanting to leave. I remember my mom being angry because she had just lit a cigarette (back when people smoked in restaurants) and she wanted ice cream. We finally left (after she finished her cigarette) and I was really impatient the whole time until we left. I also remember driving away from the restaurant and being on Freeport Blvd and on my knees looking out of the back window and seeing smoke (kids were not seat-belted back then - they just jumped around in the back seat like chimpanzees). Later, when I was older (maybe 15 or 16), I found out that my father was one of the first police officers on the scene and heard about the carnage. Makes one wonder...
@@mikesmusicden Thanks for answering me! I'm 55 so I remember how it was in the 70s. But what I wanted to know is if you remember your feelings that day. Do you remember if you felt something, and that is why you didn't want to stay? Can you remember any of that? And when the car was driving away, were you looking out the back window because you anticipated that something might happen? Also, have you had any other "gut feelings" since then?
Oh, wow. I'm having such a weird flashback. I went to college with a guy who said his older sisters had been killed in a plane crash at Farrell's, and that was the reason his parents had chosen to have him. At the time, I dismissed it (you hear lots of weird stories in dorms), but now I'm remembering that he was from Sacramento, and would have been born about two years later. 😔
Lying weirdo
@eighmie28 : did the guy have the same last name as any of the others who were killed listed in this video? Thanks for sharing
@@shirlthegirl631 Yes, he did.
I was there that day, nearby. We lived just around the corner, I remember…at Fruitridge and Florin Road. It was the last day for jets there, at the then-called Executive Airport.🌿🐇 It is very weird…to see the story reappear. Being just a kid…it was quite the experience for me, … to imagine how easily I could have been at that innocent birthday party.🌿🐇 My goodness.
Wow. Yes many grand stories in dorms, but this sounds legit
Man I can't imagine losing every other family member in the same disaster at such a young age.
I hope that kid managed to recover after this
it happened recently in Italy in a cable car accident, only a 5 years old survived 😞
So Do I
I'm quite sure they did not.
Seriously, that sounds awful.
Imagine being at an AA meeting trying to explne why you drink .and this poor guy starts talking .
The root of it is that the pilot did not know the "flight envelope" of the aircraft he was flying. The flight envelope covers all combinations of altitude, attitude and airspeed, and defines the safe zone for a given plane to fly in.
He thought, "I'm in a jet fighter, I can take off at a very high pitch!" Wrong. He tried to take off and instead "stalled" - reached such a high pitch the wings couldn't sustain lift any more and promptly quit flying. So close to the ground, he had no chance of recovery from the stall, and the plane became an unguided bomb aimed straight at Farrell's.
The airshow was at fault too, however. The proper thing (done at many airshows nowadays) would have been to have him take off at a proper airfield, fly to the show, do his passes, and fly BACK to the original field to land, with proper runways and buffers. If the Sabre was a static display, they should have just hauled it off on a truck and not tried to FLY it out of the airport. Poor planning by both the airfield and the airshow assured the disaster would happen even with a more experienced pilot.
Thanks for this. I don't know much about airplanes, but this makes a lot of sense and helps me understand why he did what he did.
@@daffers2345 A big problem with the Sabre was that it had small wings. That meant that it needed high speeds to fly in fighting trim. At low speeds, it was trying to get a brick into the air, and demanded great care in takeoffs and landings to prevent a sudden stall (and immediate crash). This pilot knew NONE of that. He was just about a passenger in his own plane once things started getting out of hand.
@@ArchTeryx00 Sabre Dance. The pilots had a song about the Super Sabre:
Don't give me a one-o-o
It's deadly to friend and foe'
That old 'Saber dance" made me sh!t in my pants,
Don't give me a one-o-o
@@P_RO_ True, but that doesn't apply here. Super Sabres are F-100s, this was a Canadian version of an F-86 Sabre. Where the F-86 would passively try to kill you (stall), the F-100 would actively make the attempt (tip stall in ground effect).
@@mfree80286 Both the F-86 and F-100 were also underpowered. The turbojet engines of that era were heavy for the amount of thrust they produced. Taking off in a Super Sabre could be very tricky. You had to make sure you got it going fast enough before you lifted off or you could end up in serious trouble. The thrust to weight ratio was well below 1:1 so it would not accelerate going straight up.
This tragedy is literally the stuff of my nightmares! Imagine going from just trying to enjoy eating ice cream with your family to then immediately being the sole survivor of your entire family in a matter of mere seconds…
Imagaine that. Thanks, I wasn't.
Fascinating Horror has my vote as one of the most interesting TH-cam channels. The narrations are always concise and clear. The content well thought out with extensive research. And the stories are truly fascinating and horrible! Well done. Please keep them them coming.
Me too. It truly is fascinating stuff 😊
@@allisonday893 Makes me think of the Wings episode where Joe is trying to get his brother to stop saying words like fascinating. Main producer writer of that show died on 9/11 plane. Here is bat biologist Bret Weinstein w/ mRNA vax inventor & optical mouse rich guy who talks too much revealing vax truth & generic treatments to save humans. Watch b4 it is taken down.
I take the I med in vid. Will avoid the F. ( Columbine shooters ) Hope this info prevents bad things.
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Agreed.
I like the fact that the narrator does not waste energy trying to be emotional. The calm delivery does not shield the extreme empathy and sadness the viewer witnesses. Anything more would be pandering.
Agreed
I was also 12 then, and was at the airshow all day, and watched the entire crash unfold. Earlier that day, I watched that F-86 racing a small yellow biplane all around Sacramento to promote the airshow. I was standing on an electrical box just below the tower to get a clear view. The jet got probably halfway down the runway and the nose went up, then the plane got around 25 feet high, then dropped. I then saw black tire smoke as he locked up the brakes, then a cloud of dust as it went off the end of the runway, slid around a 1/4 mile, still had a lot of speed at this point, hit the 10 foot embankment at Freeport Blvd where the fuel tanks exploded in a huge fireball. Even at 1/2 mile I was from the explosion, I felt the radiant heat instantly. I lost sight of it there, then saw the smoke coming from Farrells. My brother and I ran down Freeport towards the crash. We got there before any fire or rescue vehicles probably due to the traffic. I saw the hedges on Freeport burned, along with the street and sidewalks blackened. From there, the jet flew another 100 yards across the parking lot, but only 3 feet high, because all of the roofs of the cars had been sheared off by the plane, and the paint of the cars was blistered by the heat. My brother and I walked through the parking lot as fire department and police arrived. We were never told to leave, as I am sure they thought we must have been inside Farrells. Firemen carried bodies out and lined them up right in front of us. The bodies were all burned and unrecognizable.
This is the actual crash( th-cam.com/video/xdwk00AwNdg/w-d-xo.html ) It is my understanding that the pilot Richard Bingham later crashed a P-51 on final.
Thank you for sharing this fascinating eyewitness report! I'll check out the link you posted.
Wow that plane looked like it didn’t even leave the ground. I imagined it at least up in the air a bit.
@@beththompson2188 Its been many years, and I still remember it clearly. But, it may have been 10 feet up for all I know, but the angle I saw it from, it was definitely off the ground for a second.
@limelight81 I have now seen 8 planes crash, all at airshows. The last one was the P51 crash in Reno into the spectators. I was a mile out standing on my camp trailer, saw the whole thing. Just makes you sick. We knew it was bad.
Bingham was alive as late as 2012, living in Shasta County. The Sacramento Bee contacted him for a comment on the 40th anniversary of the crash, but he declined.
"Instant carnage" - two words that convey so much meaning
firefighters have a saying "drive it like you stole it" that department that crashed through the gate truly did drive it like they stole it.
I saw the jet in the thumbnail, read the title. Looked back at the thumbnail, re-read the title.
"Maybe he put the wrong image.... Surely... Oh god now I have to watch"
And now I have to subscribe.
I'd never heard of this. I'm surprised because it's such a absolute nightmare.
Dad from the other room: "New Fascinating Horrors!!"
Haha. That’s awesome!!
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BABE WAKE UP
Dads have a way of adding extra plurals.
It's like Christmas 🎁
This acident reminds me of one that happened here in São Paulo, Brazil. In July 17, 2009 a TAM airline plane was trying to land at the airport (I forgot the name), it was raining, the runway wasn't fully finished and didn't had means to drain the acumullated water. In the end, the plane couldn't stop in time, went through the whole runway and crashed in a building. 199 people died
Yeah, but they were in Brazil so no one cares. These were blonde American kids! Much sadder!!
@@youtubegarbage7876 are you for fucking real? Doesn't matter if theyre American, Brazilian, or goddamn Afghanistani, every person is just as important as another. One American kids life is not worth any fucking more than one Brazilians life
@@youtubegarbage7876 or maybe just maybe, it is well known but your lazy ass just haven't go search it yet.
It was covered on Air Crash Investigation, also known as Mayday! in some regions.
@@youtubegarbage7876 WTF
@youtubegarbage7876 You have given yourself the right name. What a stupid comment
I drive by this location everyday going home from work. You can't drive by that spot without think about what happened there. It was way before my time, but definitely made a mark in Sacramento history.
Born and raised in Greenhaven
Lately, I've become addicted to this channel. It makes me wonder where it's been all this time. I'm fascinated by historical events, as well as morbid curiosities, so it's basically a perfect channel for me. Well-restearched too.
With COVID, I think it got a huge boost in views
9 family members just gone. How do you wrap your head around that or maybe you just don't. I can't imagine. That really is a horror.
I wonder how that person is doing now.
I wouldn’t be able to stay alive. I wouldn’t even know how to process my whole family dying at once
Get divorced. The other half of your family will vanish in an instant. People you spent years with and loved dearly. Birthdays, Christmases every long weekend...maybe you even worked with them. This episode is tragic but people lose people every day without the death. Doesn't mean it hurts any less.
Just saying.
@@shannonpincombe8485 of course you're "just saying." How else would you verbally communicate? And no one's comparing grief here.
Just makes you want to hold your kids a little closer.
I remember my dad would tell me this story whenever we would go to the Jack in the box that the Farrells was replaced with, I would sit in the drive through scared a plane would hit us. Edit: I know now that the Jack in the box isn’t in the same exact location just what I thought as a kid
lol total dad thing to do
Actually Jack-in-The-Box is across 35th Av from where Farrell's was.
@R.C. Collins *_BIG BRAIN MOVE_*
I like your dad! really caring person isnt he?
the Fire/Police station across the street is actually the site...there is a memorial plaque there... Your father sounds like mine though lol.. always dramatic in a hilarious/funny way
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Kind of an ironic thing to say
Farrell's need to come back. They were the BEST and there's never been anything like it.
yeah, their comeback would be a _banger_ !
sorry for that, I'm taking myself out the door.
There is one is Cali iirc
Times are changing kids aren’t interested in a classic ice cream parlor from what I’ve seen
@@maninacoffinofficial63 coldstone is pretty good, it's semi classic for ice cream places
Had one in walking distance from my middle school in the 70's.
Great place!
"The biggest sundaes on offer were delivered on stretchers borne by multiple servers."
OMG the Pig Trough was the bestest ice cream sundae ever. Of course I never had enough friends for the Zoo.
Did you get the ribbon award "I Made a Pig of Myself at Farrells?"
I think you may have missed the point of the video.
🏍️ Also deviating from the point ; i delivered a few Pig Troughs back in '82.
In my area they were called a Zoo. My family loved Farrell's when I was a kid.
I had the Zoo. First grade? It must have been. I was required to invite the whole class as well as my brother's friends. So I liked at least one other person there. The Zoo was amazing and I wish I still had the little plastic zoo animals and other accessories. Is it McDonalds or the backyard for kids today? sad, sad, sad.
The gift shop had a thousand kinds of candy. Rock candy that looked like real rocks of different colors. The big fat licorice ropes that probably gave a fair percentage of us dangerously high BP. No HFCS, no palm oil. The real deal, candy by candy.
Imagine trying to explain to your insurance company that your car was hit by a plane
Huge headache no doubt
Imagine going out for ice cream, and YOU get hit by a plane.
A few months ago a plane crashed into and Suv near Hollywood, Florida. Killing the driver of the Suv although a kid in the Suv survived
Imagine trying to explain to your insurance company how your car was hit by a whale.
How could a car be hit by a whale, you ask? Dynamite. Obviously. 20 cases, to be precise.
November, 1970, Florence, Oregon.
At Farmers insurance, we have seen it all.......................................................................
Additional information: Kerri Francis McCluskey was almost 4 when her twin sister Kristi died in the plane crash. Kerri herself had a broken leg and some lighter wounds. As an adult, "McCluskey led the drive for a memorial rose garden, with its two metal benches, stone obelisk fountain, concrete marker and two metal plaques with the names of those killed. It was dedicated March 15, 2003, 'in loving memory' of the deceased."
The pilot, Bingham, has declined to be interviewed, but has lived with this tragedy every day, and will continue to do so until he dies.
Kerri sadly passed in February 2019, she was buried next to her sister.
Here's an anomaly, I looked and didn't see Kristi McCluskey's name on any of the lists or on any of the memorials for the deceased . Did anybody else spot it?
@@brewerrkjb @9:13 First one top left. Different last name.
Went to a farrels in fl, in the 80s, as a kid. That place was awesome.
Do you mean friendlies?
Ours was by the movie theater (great location) and it was always packed. Rock candy on a string by the cash register and the everpresent Happy Birthday! Gads, but I miss that place....
@@clayton9136 No. Farrell was a chain restaurant. There were many all over.
@@messiahsbythesackful6267 yup.
I grew up in the 1970s, and one of my favorite places was Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor. Such wonderful childhood memories, and so sad that my own kids and grandkids never got to share those memories. I had never heard of this tragedy!
I had heard of it, but it didn’t happen in Torrance (my home town) even though there is an airport there. I have very fond memories of Farrell’s from when I was a kid and into my teens. Three friends and I ate The Zoo, so we got awarded ribbons for having made pigs of ourselves at Farrell’s. Good times...
@@YvetteArby a private airplane crashed in front of the Torrance Farrell’s in 1982. 2 dead on the plane but no damage to the ice cream parlor.
Me too, SoCal born and raised. It was a childhood treat as was the random weekend Disney trip.
@@itrthho Wow! I was still living there at that time!
@@YvetteArby Farrell's was the greatest! My cousin wanted a ribbon so bad that he finished a _huge_ thing of chocolate ice cream all by himself. When he stood up, he threw the whole thing up. He still got that ribbon though. 😄
To say that the restaurant had a “lively atmosphere” on that day would be an understatement.
more of a deadly atmosphere really
Certainly would be a unique take on baked Alaska.
The young twins, Kerri and Kristi, were the grandchildren of our next door neighbors in Sonora, CA and even though I was a few years older I met and played with them a few times. I remember this crash and my parents telling me what happened and was very shocked and saddened knowing I wouldn’t be seeing them together again. The grandparents/neighbors of course, were utterly devastated. Such a tragic event.
Farrell’s went out of business? Darn. It sounded really cool.
It was awesome, I remember going to one in Minnesota in the 70s as a kid
It was so nice! I celebrated several of my best birthdays there. My brother worked at ours in Birmingham while he was on college breaks. I had always wondered what had happened to the neat place. Well, I guess that I know what happened to one of them, unfortunately. Such a sad story. It did result in several improvements for the area, however. My prayers are with the victims and the survivors who were affected.
Haha "cool". Because its an ice cream parlor!
Ya that was my take away. “What?! I never get to visit a Farrell’s?!”
For those of you that are interested, there is one remaining Farrell's location inside Mountasia in Santa Clarita California if you're ever that direction and want to go
My parents took us to this Farrell’s every year after going to CalExpo, the California State Fair. What a horrifying ending to a memory, and tragedy for all the families
pretty far from CalExpo. 25-30 minute drive, there was a Farrells in Arden by CalExpo, probably the one you are thinking of.
@@davidmorgan1872 You are right - my mistake!
Oh my God, the poor kid who lost their entire family that day! 😔
Just found this and whoa... I was there that day with my brother and we wanted to go to Farrells after the show. My grandmother and aunt had brought us to the show and were tired after a long day, saw the wait (line) and said "no", We ended up going to a drugstore down the street that had a soda fountain. As we were leaving we heard the "boom" and saw the fire. My brother and I wanted to go back and see what was happening but my grandmother floored it and got us home where we saw on tv what happened
thank you so much for not artificially deepening your voice, or putting on a cheesy "creepy" cadence to your speech to try to make it scarier or something. it's usually very cringy and ruins the atmosphere.
regular speaking voice + the content in your videos makes for a MUCH creepier video!
Plus no music!
I must be hard of hearing.
It's one of the reasons I love this channel. I also like that he doesn't add his own opinion or try to bias things because he thinks a certain way. It's very factual, and that's scarier than any haunted house or horror movie, I think.
I think he over-pronounces every word & ever letter in every word.
You'd never talk to somebody this way face to face.
@@daffers2345 Well, outside of his coverage of The Goiania Incident.
detritus /dɪˈtrʌɪtəs/
noun: - waste or debris of any kind.
Learned a new word, thanks for that.
Can't even imagine how bad that pilot must have felt. 😰😰😰
Wreckage is probably a more appropriate word here.
@@tamfuwing1 Yes, fragments flying at lethal velocities off an exploding aeroplane are not "detritus"
Yeah, any scraps laying about now are detritus....fresh scraps, not so much.
@@HO-bndk the word is correctly used. Synonyms for detritus: ashes, debris, flotsam, remains, residue, rubble, ruins, wreck, wreckage
We would always eat at Farrell’s at the Staten Island Mall in New York City back in the 70s and 80s. I miss that place.
At least we still have ralph's
Farrell’s was a great ice cream parlor.
We went there often as kids.
This story was super tragic - I remember it well.
I went as a little kid in Portland Oregon and it was thrilling when you were from a small town 🎉
That two minute transition from "fun and lively atmosphere!" to "the legal height limits on buildings at the time were..." was such a jarring and well executed transition. I love this channel, you literally made learning safety regulations and law fascinating!
I have learnt from "Fascinating horror", that in the good old times, when there were no stupid safety laws or regulations and all kind of restrictions, the world was just as safe as it is today EXCEPT for: trams, bridges, amusement parks, waterparks, concert halls, theatres, clubs, shopping malls, ferries, beaches and ice cream parlors. And a few other places.
😏
Safety regulations are written in blood.
It was safe most of the time - when everyone got lucky and nothing went wrong.
@@metalman_j Oh good to know! Life is safe when nothing goes wrong.. gotcha! :)
I never recalled the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s being particularly good times.
This was so sad to hear. None of those people and families in that parlor had any idea what they would be up against that day.
They were expecting ice cream..
They got wings instead
@@gator9339 bruh that's not right.
At least some of them got the engine
Instead of chocolate syrup, they got jet fuel
I mean yeah I don't too often go out for Ice Cream thinking about planes crashing into the same building. It makes the strawberry sauce taste funny.
I just want to say I appreciate those of you were open to share your personal experiences it is fascinating and I am sorry for this tragedy.
I loved that place! My favorite was the Gibson Girl sundae. The huge one was called The Zoo and it was usually for birthday parties. The waiters ran around the whole restaurant with it before coming to the table, all the while they had a siren playing and a big bell ringing. They also had a trough of ice cream, and if you ate it all, you got an award and they announced that you had made a pig of yourself at Farrell’s.
It’s so sad what happened there. This was a place of so much happiness so this is absolutely tragic. 😭😭😭
When I was a kid and knew they were coming to our table with a ‘zoo’ I wanted to hide under the table! I got embarrassed easily! They had ‘clown sundaes’ and my favorite was the apple pandowdy sundae. Tasted like apple pie a la mode😋💕
I have to say thank you for this channel. There's a tendency these days to have podcasts and channels about tragedy and crime, and I largely dislike the content. But this channel has something those things don't: hope. Wherever you can, you find the positive - like the living memorial, which is very important (as a burn victim I'm endlessly grateful for burn clinics) and the ways in which policies have been changed and loopholes resolved. Thank you for sharing this.
I like to learn about crime and tragic events that happened in the past, even from recent years, but I like to hear about the positive outcomes that come out of those horrific incidents, like new safety laws and better infrastructure.
Forget the mall height limit. That airport and strip is not set up in a way that allows room for issues that are guaranteed to happen eventually. No room for error.
The real problem is that airports are planned for open spaces, and then urbanization creeps up on them. This was a relic from WWII, never meant to have anything else around it. Then time happens.
When I saw the thumbnail I was VERY confused...was this ice cream shop ON a plane?
I couldn't have even imagined that a perfectly fine plane would just run right off the runway into a store built on the other side of it...
I had the same confusion - was the description wrong for the video? Unfortunately, nope, both the title and description were accurate. 😪
Yes, but the plane had good refrigerators
I live in Sacramento and have never heard of this incident, always cool to learn something new about my city.
Same, but I've only been here since 2014.
Really?? It was on Freeport near Fruitridge. There is a police station there now.
Shortly before they went out of business, I actually went to the Farrell’s in Sacramento. I learned about the crash from my grandmother as I was eating ice cream there. A bit disconcerting.
Yes I used to go all the time with my brother and friends to the Farrells in Walnut Creek California awesome place for a young kid growing up and I do remember this happening in Sacramento which is about an hour away from Walnut Creek very very sad horrible tragedy
"Issues never caused any problems before, meaning they are perfectly fine." Logic at its finest...
That seems to be a core philosophy of us human. That's why so many rules are written in blod.
There’s even a technical name for that: “normalization of deviation”.
@@Zyphera humans are really dumb.
Honestly though, as the world evolves and expands so does the risk and potential ways for disasters to happen.
When someone made the scissors for the first time I highly doubt they considered the amount of people that would trip whilst holding them and stab theirself, they were more thrilled about the convenience of the invention.
We all get chanced throughout our lives, I guarantee you that we've all been in a position where a freak accident could of happened, but we never realise it or if we do, we think a long the same lines as the person who ignored the sign height reccommendation, because the probability is sooo high that it hasn't even happened to anyone yet so we basically run the lottery.
You are blessed to be in a time where this happened over 50 years ago, where you have the foresight of collective human knowledge gained since this event that allows you be on this pedestal.
I say it like this because this channels comment section, whilst amazing, is full of people on a health and safety pedestal, talking about times where health and safety were lesser known and less respected due to the lack of accidents.
Basically, to ramp up my point to the extreme; it's like me saying Cavemen and Neanderthals were stupid and I can't believe they couldn't start a fire and when they did they'd most likely burn down whatever they had. Like, just start a fire and don't get burnt, is it that hard?
Super easy for me to say when I'm living in a time where I have a lighter in my pocket, more than 30 IQ, a developed brain, a sense of threat and danger, and a fire service that will save my ass if an accident happens.
There must be a word that describes ignorance to privilege and hypocrisy. Because that's what that is. Not flaming you, but mindless comments that are used with a sense of ego (whether knowing or unknowingly) with holes in bug me idk why.
It's soul crushing to see the list of victims and see all the matching last names.
High respect for that last part of this video (when youtubers use their influence for good) , citing the firefighters burn foundation it true CLASS , and will help them , I don't have a thing to do with them I'm on the other side of the map , but your including this PSA in the end of you video is priceless and I for one very strongly THANK YOU for doing such things , not only are these videos very well researched and edited , they as well can do continued good for those who want to help and serve . Again So Very Well Done , Keep up the good work for sure ! 👍🤙
It’s just so unfortunate that these events have to happen for oversights to be taken seriously. It’s just upsetting and I can’t imagine what these families go through…
My first career was 14 years in General Aviation. It was there that I learned everything is a technicality until something goes wrong.
The little girl who survived the ordeal is ten years older than me. It happened 4 days and 2 years before I was born. Very sad. I hope she has been living a good life filled with new family that fill her life with happiness.
The Brumit's, from Meadow Vista, CA. where the couple killed in the car the jet hit crossing the road that day. Sadly they we're going to visit their son Terry in the hospital due to his being in a serious go-kart accident. I moved away shortly after that and always wondered how Terry Brumit coped with type of loss.
I saw the heading and thought that people died from some kind of poisoned ice cream.
Death by chocolate
5:06 Grim reminder to be mindful of your own safety when trying to rescue others :(
It is all too easy to get tunnel vision under those circumstances. Can happen to anyone.
Strange that the traffic was still moving. 1 car that had had a jet plough through it, that same jet blazing and stuck in the side of an ice cream parlour, but the traffic was still moving...
@@dougaltolan3017 Maybe the vehicle had seen the carnage and turned around to drive away from it and the couple running across the road weren't expecting a vehicle to be coming from that direction? Just a thought.
In 1972 I was delivering flowers in Sacramento. Days after this tragedy, I delivered elaborate floral arrangements, paid for by aviation attorneys, to the families of victims. Sometimes, I'd park behind other flower delivery vans, also delivering bouquets, sympathy cards and business cards from other lawyers. My cousin was working at Farrell's that day, but had gone home not long before the Sabre Jet came through the door.
Man, most of these make me angry, because these disasters are usually the result of negligence, laziness, and/or greed. Now while there was a little bit of that here, this still mostly feels like the tragic result of honest mistakes, and that makes this so much sadder.
Flying jets over a populated area while doing risks moves....yeah honest mistake. Morons.