Alone in Abandoned Airfield in Puerto Rico

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  • I was tipped on an abandoned American Airlines plane that sits somewhere in Puerto Rico's abandoned Roosevelt Roads airport. So I hopped on a bike and went on a journey to find this bird...
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  • @BlueCaptainPR
    @BlueCaptainPR 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +124

    Guys, I’m a local and I have visited this plane multiple times over the years. It has recently become more popular across social media and more people have been visiting it. I just ask anyone who does visit to please be respectful and don’t vandalize or take anything. This place is like a time capsule, just look at how clean the hangars are, and how everything seems to just be stuck in time, free of trash or any graffiti. Please, let’s keep it this way 🙏

    • @nathanalpert710
      @nathanalpert710 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Well people usually have more respect for historical items like this outside the USA

    • @truckabob
      @truckabob 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Stfu PR is a dump

    • @alessandrosignorini9556
      @alessandrosignorini9556 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Honestly is a silly request, people are poor and when they realize what is memorabilia and how much md80 seats cost on the web it will be teared down as from ants

    • @lionelguy
      @lionelguy 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Obviously the plane was a parts unit, as evidence of the missing engines and avionics. Nice to explore though.

    • @adrianb9611
      @adrianb9611 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      There are doors on the backs of different planes like that MD80 or it could be an MD90 but it can't be a B727 because they have 3 engines not 2.

  • @zms8092
    @zms8092 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Been a flight attendant for American for 25 years and I can’t say I’ve ever gotten to walk on a wing! 👏🏼 I’m sure I worked this very plane many times. American called these MD-80s “Super 80s” which is what the “S80” stood for on the safety card you found. Somebody blew off the tail cone which is lying under the fuselage. It was used as an emergency exit but during normal operations, we used the stairs for boarding/deplaning and the cleaners would come up thru those stairs as well. At one time, we had about 400 of these MD-80s in our fleet. Major piece of AA’s history. Thanks for sharing. She flew millions of miles and may she rest in peace 🫶🏼

  • @RalfyLovesAviation
    @RalfyLovesAviation 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

    So, Those facilities are the Old Puerto Rico Aviation Maintenance institute. They moved the school to Fajardo now (around 2020-2021).The plane is a MD82 and it was manufactured in November 1986. AA donated it to the school in March 2009 to help train new aircraft mechanics. The plane actually flew in from Tulsa Oklahoma. It was just retired due to age and it being old technology. I am lucky to have trained on that plane when it was fully together, the only thing missing from it were the engines. I can say I have some good memories working on the plane and inside the hangars and classrooms. thanks to that plane and that school I am one of the thousands of puerto rican aircraft mechanics that earned our certificate there.

    • @jimmymurphy7789
      @jimmymurphy7789 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Wow - All-RIGHT ! 😃👍

    • @SuperDalite
      @SuperDalite 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you for adding appropriate background/story to the video. 👍

  • @jjsifo1
    @jjsifo1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +128

    MD80 donated by AA for Airframe & Powerplant mechanics license training.

    • @linnren0952
      @linnren0952 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      That aircraft was one of TWA's old aircraft from AA's purchase in 2000. I worked for AA 21 years and all of the A/C in the AA Fleet did not have the galley in front of the rear 4 seats on the left side. The galley was behind all of the two seats on the left side. I hired on in 1984 and the original configuration was 12 FC seats and 133 seats in coach. then expanded to 16FC seats 125 in coach order to give coach passengers more legroom.

    • @aawrench
      @aawrench 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      That’s not an old twa. It’s N428 AA. Came into service 10/28/86 for AA. Probably worked on that 1 hundreds of times. Hired on as AMT in 85.Retired last year

    • @mattslegochannel
      @mattslegochannel 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Thx man. I’m have been looking at it only knowing it’s a mcdoglas

  • @anthonylopez-hr6dw
    @anthonylopez-hr6dw 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    As a retired A/C mechanic, I would never climb inside cargo pit. Cargo door could easily become unlatched. Trapped inside, no one around.

  • @FelixEspada
    @FelixEspada 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +71

    That plane is a MD-82, delivered to American Airlines in October 1986.

    • @michaelc3977
      @michaelc3977 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Except it's an MD-80. Similar, but different. But of course you knew that already lol

    • @trin162
      @trin162 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@michaelc3977Good job showcasing to the world just how ignorant and wrong you are. There is no such variant of the DC-9 Super series, designated "80" (second era of the DC-9 similar to how the B737 has entered it's fourth series since the B737-100) called the "MD-80". There is the MD-81, MD-82, MD-83, MD-87, MD88 and MD-90. After Boeing's acquisition of the dying manufacturer Mcdonald Douglas, they made a shorter version, akin to the original DC-9 called the Boeing 717.
      An intelligent person only speaks on and corrects others when they actually know what they are talking about.

    • @brad727
      @brad727 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@michaelc3977Same thing, MD-80 is the aircraft type, MD-82 is the series. There are MD-81's, MD-82's, MD-83's, MD-87's and MD-88's.

  • @yuckfoo9638
    @yuckfoo9638 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +70

    that is an MD80, owned by American AirLines, leased to the US Navy via MAC, military airlift command, and it was used to fly military personnel, their dependents from Florida to Roosevelt Roads. The base officially closed in early 2004, if I remember correctly maybe April. I flew those flights for 2yr before retiring from the Navy to go into civilian life flying for a commercial air line.

    • @robtaylor1969
      @robtaylor1969 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Why didn't she exit out the back door, with steps?

    • @StephenBishopNOMAD
      @StephenBishopNOMAD 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@robtaylor1969because they we're in the up position they rarely used them and the engine's were either side ive flown on many MC Donald Douglas 83s and when you're in the rear toilets the engine sounds are bloody loud and vibrate like crazy 🤣

  • @PauloPereira-jj4jv
    @PauloPereira-jj4jv 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    You should not go alone.... beautiful as it is, the place is unsafe and isolated.

  • @jerryvargas6182
    @jerryvargas6182 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    Love your adventurous nature, you’re probably the best TH-camr I’ve come across. Keep up the badass journeys, be safe.

    • @LauWasHere
      @LauWasHere  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Thank you so much ❤️ always safe ish

    • @elizandrolopez6295
      @elizandrolopez6295 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Same here! You are a one helluva adventure abandon places explorer girl which i found today by a youtube suggestion!😄 pretty glad! And i hope you are one of my fellow country girls! From the bottom of my heart... tons of ..🙏🏾💖🤗

  • @davidkellymitchell4747
    @davidkellymitchell4747 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    She makes me feel old. I'm 70. I remember when the MD-80 was a new plane. I flew AA MD-80's many millions of miles. My first plane ride was on a brand new AA flagship DC-7 in 1954. Enjoyed the video! Pretty cool find! The reason they quit using them is because the airframe lost it's airworthiness from metal fatigue but they can still rebuild and reuse the engines and avionics for other planes and that's the reason they are missing now. The plane is just scrap metal now.

    • @StephenBishopNOMAD
      @StephenBishopNOMAD 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      My first plane was a Cambrian airways Viscount with four props, then boing 707s and Tristars they were my favourite plane with three masive engines at the back.

    • @JohnRosado-n8t
      @JohnRosado-n8t 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@StephenBishopNOMADBoeing

    • @JohnRosado-n8t
      @JohnRosado-n8t 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@StephenBishopNOMADmassive..
      .

  • @rosacortes5074
    @rosacortes5074 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Lau, you are an amazingly brave person!!!!! LAU, THE WONDER WOMAN!!!! My brother was an Officer in the US Navy, stationed at "RosieRoads", in the 70's. For a member of the military, it was a great place to be stationed. It WAS a beautiful place. It's sad to see all that land abandoned. I hope in the future, it's utilized for the greater good of the local towns. It would bring employment opportunities to the surrounding commities. Thank you and God Bless you & keep you safe on your journeys.
    ⛑️🦺🙏🇵🇷💯😁😁😁

  • @cafewa100
    @cafewa100 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

    Flip flops. Laura you know better. Otherwise I love your adventure. I love your exploring that abandoned plane ✈️. It was REALLY COOL you checking out the plane’s cockpit and all those controls. You ARE AWESOME.
    Keep em coming Lau. Stay safe out there.

    • @LauWasHere
      @LauWasHere  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      My trademark 😂 thank you so much for the words, I’m so happy you enjoy the vidz 🥺 YOU are awesome thank you

    • @alansmart6588
      @alansmart6588 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I agree! When you're wearing flip flops, you're dressed for NOTHING. What if you have to start running from airplane zombies. Incredible video! Keep up the good work! Find a trademark other than flip flops. Please.

  • @Vito_993
    @Vito_993 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Finally a TH-camr from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

  • @nicholasshewalter3951
    @nicholasshewalter3951 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    My son and I stumbled into an abandoned airfield near New Orleans in the 90’s. There were two twin Martin’s in prestigious condition partly sunk in the ashfault. We pulled an old wagon near the eight foot crew door and climbed the racks to enter inside the plane. You described our feelings to a tee, when we entered that beautiful airplane it was indescribable. We left it untouched taking only our memories. And as a parent with a daughter just like you I removed my hands over my eyes when you got back on your bike out of those dark rooms!

  • @vortextechops
    @vortextechops 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    That MD-80 was donated from AA to the local A&P school that used to operate there. The school was relocated to the Fajardo Vocational School campus during the pandemic, & due to lack of space it was left there. there are ocasional field trips to the base that may include some work on it, but there isn't much there.

    • @dabneyoffermein595
      @dabneyoffermein595 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      wow, so much information, thanks a ton. I was wondering if it was an MD-80 or MD-82 or a DC-9. THANKS !!!! you are the man Vortex_tech_chops

    • @DaveCornutt
      @DaveCornutt 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I was wondering how it got to Puerto Rico. The info I found says that AA withdrew it from service in 2018 and stored it in Roswell. At some point after that it was sold to a company in Miami. The registration was cancelled in 2022. It looks like they've made a decision to scrap it in place.

    • @dabneyoffermein595
      @dabneyoffermein595 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@DaveCornutt But how did it get intact to where it is from Miami, was it flown over to Puerto Rico basically held together with glue?

  • @jeffreybillups3323
    @jeffreybillups3323 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Omg, yes. I lived on the base as a kid. You are awesome. Thank you. Love this.

  • @munichaviationspotter4222
    @munichaviationspotter4222 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The nice lady we see here in the video is a 37,4 year old McDonell Douglas MD-82 of American Airlines registration N428AA. The last flight was at 27th march 2009 from Tulsa. It was planned to be used as technical trainer for aircraft maintenance but never used as this.

  • @daylenichols1415
    @daylenichols1415 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Girl! I love your videos! Your sense of adventure, and that you’re a little bit crazy. I now want to visit PR because of you.
    BTW that plane is effen creepy😂Stay safe!

    • @LauWasHere
      @LauWasHere  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I love this 😂 thank you I’m so glad you wanna come visit my little island. She is just as crazy as me 👀

  • @VictorPerez-uc5nj
    @VictorPerez-uc5nj 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Girl, you have done it again for us!! Another awesome adventure. And your stewardess skills were impeccable. Have a nice flight!

  • @jclements65
    @jclements65 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Glad you carry a taser. Your safety is number 1. Awesome adventures

  • @Cannon804
    @Cannon804 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I like watching,makes me feel like we're hanging out.

  • @robertoacevedo6247
    @robertoacevedo6247 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    When you said old school airplane from the 80s you made me feel ancient, by the way I don't know if you know about a man that took an airplane and made his home in it, I don't remember in what town in Puerto Rico but it was up in the mountains, he somehow took the plane there and made his home in it.

  • @WorldWideChugging
    @WorldWideChugging 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Worked on that and countless other MD80's at American for about 17 years.
    The aircraft was the end of a dynasty for Mcdonald Douglas.
    Great, they donated them for others to get hands-on experience
    Those interior seat colors are early vintage.
    Flight deck baby blue dates it as early production.
    Thanks for the video.

  • @GustavRodz
    @GustavRodz 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Awesome adventure, Laura! Enjoyed every minute of it. It's refreshing to see a young person enjoying time outdoors, on a bike, away from a tablet or playstation for a while. BTW, a pair of gloves in your backpack could also be a good idea...just saying. And be very careful while exploring abandoned places. Sometimes they're not THAT abandoned. Best wishes!

  • @rickyshaw5560
    @rickyshaw5560 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Hey, nice explore! When I was there, backin the day, it was an American airline's DC-9, I think, and we were sitting there, on the tarmac, for like close to an hour, and the maintenance guy's were all busy at the front of the plane, and this was a stop over flight from NY to ST Lucia, and we wondered what was going on, and what the hold up was, that's taking so long, and the captain comes on the intercom, and say's, we're sorry for the delay, but the cockpit window fell out, and had landed in his lap! And I'm thanking the Heavenly Father this didn't happen while we were up in the air!

    • @kd5you1
      @kd5you1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm pretty sure the pressurized air inside would have kept the window in place.

  • @guayames
    @guayames 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    It is a shame how Roosevelt Road has become a dump. It was a pleasure to visit and drive through Roosevelt Roads when it was in the US Navy hands. We flew to and from there in the 1980s. From the paradise it was, now looks like hell! Yes, SHAMEFUL! Thanks for showing what our Puerto Rican leadership capacity to create disasters. Proud to be Puerto Rican? Sad! How can they let this happen?

  • @michaelzaito5530
    @michaelzaito5530 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    HOW do you keep topping your adventures?? 😳 seriously, this is the coolest upload on the channel among many others. New favourite :P
    Congrats on 10K subs! You’re growing so fast, well deserved of course

  • @jimconnelly816
    @jimconnelly816 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You gotta be carefull that doors dont close behind you and dont open to let you out. It would suck roasting to death in an abondoned jetliner in the middle of nowhere.

  • @lonewolf33396
    @lonewolf33396 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    It looks like a McDonnell Douglas (MD-82). It was introduced in the early 1980s. Good, reliable planes.

  • @eloymartinez451
    @eloymartinez451 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    That's a McDuglas MD 80. Those planes were retired about 5 years ago. There's one on display at the Museo Del Niño en Carolina.
    Saludos desde Dorado.
    Acabo de ver tu canal😊

  • @DeltaTristar500
    @DeltaTristar500 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Happened to stumble on your channel and love it! I as born in Mayaguez and lived most of my life in San Diego. Now living in Boise ID since 2005. Stay safe out there Lau

  • @MatematicaTel
    @MatematicaTel 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I did press the "like" button, but I pressed it again, because I don't want to encorage you to do dangerous things. If the cabin's floor was rusty, you could get stuck inside a very hot place, absolutely alone - it would be a lot worse than a toe's scratch! Keep boldly going places like that, of course, but, most of all, think about your safety, and I will surely give you all the likes you deserve!

  • @quentin537
    @quentin537 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The production for the Boeing 727 began in 1964 until 1984. Many of them were used for flights from Florida to Puerto Rico. The last time I flew in one was in the early 90s and no they did not have TVes. However the Boeing 707 is the oldest jet which I flew in back in the 1960's when I was a young boy. Those flights were 3 and 1/2 hours long from N.Y. to P.R. The airlines would place all the children flying alone together in one section of the Boeing 707. That Boeing 727 was the worst because there was space for walking. Those steps that you saw in the back of the plane was how passengers boarded the plane back in the 1960s because there were no moving ramps to the airplanes back in the day. I love your videos you are doing wonderful work! I miss my beautiful Puerto Rico but your vlogs help a great deal, God Bless.

    • @charlesstepson2932
      @charlesstepson2932 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The one in the video is not a 727.

    • @dabneyoffermein595
      @dabneyoffermein595 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@charlesstepson2932 looks like an MD-82 or something

    • @imzanky6321
      @imzanky6321 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@dabneyoffermein595 It is a MD-82 withdrawn from service Aug 2018

  • @tonynikon
    @tonynikon 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Soy masochista. Que te puedo decir? Trabajo en un aeropuerto y entro en los aviones como parte de mi trabajo. Hace 10 ańos que me mudé de Puerto Rico y ver este video me dan ganas de volver. Ver este avión abandonado me hace pensar en muchas que no vi de Puerto Rico antes de mudarme. Un saludo desde Ft Myers, Florida! 😅

  • @Turbojets_Channel
    @Turbojets_Channel หลายเดือนก่อน

    I thoroughly enjoyed this exploration. New subscriber for sure.

  • @charlesstepson2932
    @charlesstepson2932 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    That’s an MD80. We used to call them Super 80. Those AC’s were built in the early 80’s and retired around 2014 and 2015. That one in particular was donated to the Ac maintenance school in PR.

  • @motorx225
    @motorx225 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hi I believe it's a DC 9 or a MD80. This is the first video of you I ever seen. I think you are cool and I love this video.

  • @daleshand622
    @daleshand622 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Such a cool video and I love how adventurous you are 😂I’m an airplane geek myself so I was living through your video

  • @jeffreybillups3323
    @jeffreybillups3323 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I remember flying a Mac flight from the base on a similar plane. So many memories from Roosevelt Roads Puerto Rico.

    • @Chris_at_Home
      @Chris_at_Home 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I went there a few times in 1973 and 1974 in a P-3.

  • @brianharnett2639
    @brianharnett2639 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I see the plane on Google Earth, nice find. The airport was called José Aponte Hernández Airport, and you are behind another building named Roosevelt Roads Aviation. American Airlines donated an MD-82 to the Puerto Rico Aviation Maintenance Institute (PRAMI) mechanics school located at the airport, which sits on closed runway 18/36.(source Wikipedia) 18°14'36.1"N 65°38'13.0"W

  • @SLITTHROAT13
    @SLITTHROAT13 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    There is an abandoned hospital at the highest point of the base.

    • @hobiegal
      @hobiegal 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      My son was born in that hospital.

  • @jams501er
    @jams501er 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That is an Amazing find . I can't believe they abandoned a commercial plane .Thanks for recording it .

    • @LauWasHere
      @LauWasHere  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I know right?! Thank YOU for watching 🫶🏼

  • @peter-e2q
    @peter-e2q 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’m jealous. Interesting video, watched to the end. You’re brave! Walking out on the wing when you don’t like heights. Nice eye candy too :)
    Well done babe!

  • @theredraven7877
    @theredraven7877 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    ❤ I been a lil sick , Thank you lau for keeping me entertained and have something to watch while i recover ❤ hope you doing well . Great video

    • @LauWasHere
      @LauWasHere  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      i hope you get better soon!! What an honor that I was able to make you feel better

    • @theredraven7877
      @theredraven7877 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@LauWasHere you're very welcome lau and thank you I'm feeling a lil better .

  • @leezinke4351
    @leezinke4351 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Awesome video!🤗❤️

  • @abracatabra55423
    @abracatabra55423 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Truly i salute your bravery and your genuine adventurous spirit and being appreciative of showing thus to us 🙏

  • @kd5you1
    @kd5you1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is the only exploration video I have seen where the abandoned place didn't have any graffiti. I'm glad you were prepared with those medical supplies.

  • @rvborimax
    @rvborimax 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I worked in NAS Roosevelt Roads for 12 years, then I moved to Long Beach CA, and worked in McDonald Douglas building MD11 and the plane your on MD80 (the plane your on). It was probably built in the late 80s early 90s. I like this video and your adventourist nature. Be careful and research the areas you go to.

  • @gustavoarios
    @gustavoarios 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You kept me glued till the very end, I love your adventurous spirit!!! - My 1st flight ever was on an airplane just like that one, an MD 80, I must've been 8 or 9 years old, I remember every detail. My airplane was from Aeromexico and I flew with my Grandmother from Durango, Dgo México to México City., It was the most exciting thing I had ever done in my life, up until that point. Thank you for taking me down memory lane. You rock Laura!!!

  • @CNder77
    @CNder77 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Real cool video! Thank you for sharing with us. I liked your encouragement too, get out and explore! Thanks again for sharing, I enjoyed.

  • @jeffreybillups3323
    @jeffreybillups3323 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thanks!

    • @LauWasHere
      @LauWasHere  8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks so much for this Jeffrey!!! ❤️❤️❤️🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

  • @frankpalau9856
    @frankpalau9856 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was stationed there 1983-1986 at the Marine Barracks. My daughter was born at the Hospital there. I also took a MAC flight into Andrews Air Force Base out of Rosie Roads. I also lived on base housing in Fort Buchanan. Special moments in time that were left behind.

  • @johnlopez1496
    @johnlopez1496 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This plane came about sometime in the 80's, it's a former American Airlines, I have being flying since 1987 till my adulthood, and this plane really brought back that 80's vibe, I am thankful that I have flown on planes that don't exist, and planes were so different back then, lot's of space, seats were comfortable.

  • @arturocordova9814
    @arturocordova9814 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was such a cool and entertaining video thank u so much!

  • @3ffrige
    @3ffrige 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    OMG you’re so fun! You’re the friend I’ve been missing my whole life!

  • @strangersound
    @strangersound 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Your video was in my related. I subbed because you're so cool. Love your style. :)

  • @jabe5895
    @jabe5895 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome video Laura, thank you!!!!

  • @joseivanbeau
    @joseivanbeau 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I did train there when I was in the military. Was a very active Naval Station, when you actually see F15 Flying over

  • @lreyescordova
    @lreyescordova หลายเดือนก่อน

    from one Laura to another, admiro tu salvaje valentia y espiritu aventurero!

  • @jimw5227
    @jimw5227 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    While I was in the Navy 1970's, our squadron deployed to Rosiroads for two weeks for training ops.

  • @JohnMoore-xf5wy
    @JohnMoore-xf5wy 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Years ago I was flying civilian Lockheed Hercules freighters.
    Our company had a contract with the Navy Dept and we went into Rosey three times in the late 80's.
    It was a beautiful base.

  • @EG3RED1138
    @EG3RED1138 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That's in Ceiba P.R as a kid I remember going there in the 80s with my grandmother it's a military base but no longer active I believe it's a huge community living now. Sad to see it go to crap they had malls in there stores all kinds of stuff that place is huge my grandmother was there 20 years

  • @boblivingston4841
    @boblivingston4841 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It is so clean inside I am surprised with all the doors and windows open the birds haven't destroyed the interior of that AA MD-80.You found a pice of American Airlines aviation history.Old airports are so full of history you never know what you will find.I was a pilot for AA for 38 years and flew on that plane many times.

  • @JW-gu9vy
    @JW-gu9vy 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I worked on N426AA many times over the years at AA DFW. She was a great bird. RIP 80.

  • @lonewolf33396
    @lonewolf33396 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This episode is fantastic, but 'Lau and the Cave of Doom' is also great.

    • @LauWasHere
      @LauWasHere  8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank youu 😂❤️

  • @PlanBProductioninc
    @PlanBProductioninc 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    awesome explore . i really enjoyed the way you do your stuff and laugh lol, please be safe on these experiences, keep a pocket knife or something, glad i subscribed👍

  • @Toni-today
    @Toni-today 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Hola Lau, cómo estás, quería decirte que me gusto mucho tu video por ser absolutamente auténtico, original ,tus comentarios muy acertados y desde tu hermosa sinceridad. Te mando un abrazo respetuoso y a partir de hoy estaré pendiente de tus videos. Bendiciones desde Venezuela.

    • @LauWasHere
      @LauWasHere  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Antonio muchas gracias por este comentario ❤️ me hizo el dia! Bienvenida al canal y espero que disfrutes del contenido! Saludos a Venezuela, bello pais

    • @nehemiascabrera3032
      @nehemiascabrera3032 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Como se llama este lugar donde esta este avión? Es un Aeropuerto abandonado?

  • @CorkysTeaTime2022
    @CorkysTeaTime2022 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you very much for sharing your journey with us!

  • @floofycatz
    @floofycatz 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love this. I was TDY to Rosie Roads in mid-summer '90. Hot as heck that time of year. I remember how large it was real estate wise. Everything looks be overgrown now, amazing. Thank you for this

  • @courtneyjonathan3082
    @courtneyjonathan3082 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The plane is a MD 80, the first thing you touched in the cockpit was a push button fuse panel and the handles you grabbed second was the throttle handles or throttle quadrant. Cool video. Keep up the good work.

  • @DaveCornutt
    @DaveCornutt 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That stair in the tail of the plane was a standard feature on the DC-9 and MD-80 series airplanes. Back when this was built, there were still a lot of airports around that didn't have jetways -- just a door where you walked out across the tarmac to the plane. So some airlines boarded the plane through the tail stair instead of bringing an airstair to the main door. It also served as an additional emergency exit.
    And as far as the television screens that dropped out of the ceiling: They did have them then. But most MD-80s were not equipped with them, because they were used mostly on flights that weren't long enough to watch a whole movie during the flight.

  • @simslim28
    @simslim28 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi Lau ! I just discovered your channel. Your discoveries in Puerto Rico amazes me very well. Keep up the good work ! I really like your videos. This airplane is awesome too :)

  • @WrestlerGA
    @WrestlerGA 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    you're an amazing TH-camr! love your work!!

    • @LauWasHere
      @LauWasHere  8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you!!

  • @Got_Your_6
    @Got_Your_6 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I just stumbled across this channel. She's interesting, intelligent, dorky funny (which is the best kind of humor) and she's gorgeous. I'm subscribing. 😃😃🤪

  • @quaizers
    @quaizers 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is so freaking cool!! If I still live in PR, definitely check it out.

  • @roylivingston9085
    @roylivingston9085 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cool...I was stationed on that base from November 1995 to December 1998. I enjoy All videos of the old base.

  • @RichardBurdette
    @RichardBurdette 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lived in Ponce from 1969 to 1972. Spent several nights as Roosevelt Roads while it was still in operation with a Cub Scout group I was in at the time. We stayed in one of the barracks. We ran all over that place including a shore gun somewhere near the beach.

  • @ericjones7769
    @ericjones7769 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The very first MD80 flew in 1979,the year I was born lol,but yea over 1,000 MD80s were built by McDonnell Douglas,the last one was built in 1999 and again American Airlines retired them in 2019 and then Delta Airlines retired them in 2020,also,American Airlines had the world's largest fleet of MD80s operating almost 400 of them at one point!!!!!

  • @ericanderson8965
    @ericanderson8965 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was stationed here nearly 30 years ago at TSC Roosey Roads. Was last there on detachment with VP-62 in December of 2003. I barely recognize the hangar anymore.

  • @chrispengraves6487
    @chrispengraves6487 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You’re way awesome, I absolutely love your blogging style. Also your cute sense of adventure. Stay safe out there

  • @williamllorens2141
    @williamllorens2141 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You’re a pretty gutsy lady to go by yourself on a solitary road like that one , isolated 😮. Puerto Rico is not what it used to be, and dangers are everywhere specially in places like that. Thanks for sharing and please be careful ❤

  • @33000___Feet
    @33000___Feet 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The music was absolutely sinking with the view after you got down the plane. ❤

  • @Canleaf08
    @Canleaf08 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Back in 2003, I had the pleasure to fly with the maddog on American from Denver to Chicago. The sound of this plane was unique. These planes were the most famous planes for shorter routes, trans continental or charter in Europe. In the country of Bulgaria, the MD80 is still in service.
    I would be careful with abandonned aircraft seats. Spiders could have been building a nest there. I have made experience with the brown recluse in south california, got away with some 10 bites, which one still showed marks one year after.
    Greetings from Germany. I have never been to PR, only to US and Canada and Europe.

  • @michaeljohn8905
    @michaeljohn8905 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great video I’m an airplane tech and I love stuff like this. Just be careful if you go in old airplanes they are made out of the lightest materials that man can make in those times. the flipside of that is that we need to make them as light as possible wherever possible. Yes they are strong, but the places that don’t need to be strong are not strong at all especially if it’s NOT a pressurized vessel.
    I’ll put it in something that you can understand a little easier imagine you are walking in your attic you know the ceiling is made out of Sheetrock most likely so really the stringers are the only things you want to walk on . There is a ton of stuff like that in airplanes and also you don’t want to go in one of those things and have a hatch lock on you by accident from a stiff wind..
    I am not trying to make your videos look dangerous cause you look fine but just be careful.
    Sheet metal is very sharp when not sanded or un sharpened. . I’m sure you do this safely and with somebody watching your back. Just FYI from an aviation mechanic.
    Love this video I hope you do more old airplane finds. Have fun be safe.
    O.G.MIKE KLZU (Old Guy ) .

  • @investigativeresearchcounc8388
    @investigativeresearchcounc8388 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    N428AA wad donated to the aeronautical mechanic school at the Roosevelt Roads Airport and last flew on Mar 27 2009

  • @kevinpegram262
    @kevinpegram262 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome video! Just to give you a heads up, the MD80s, ( like the one you were walking through in the video), never had movie screens or television monitors. The planes that you were speaking of are the wide-bodies, or jumbo jets. I used to fly on an American Airline MD80 out of Oakland CA, visiting relatives on the east coast, which I was on an American Airlines MD80 to both stops in Alabama, and Washington DC for the summer back in the day. Those were never movie flights. They did serve meals, but not movie flights. The only time I was on a movie flight on American, was when I flew out of San Francisco, on an American Airlines DC-10.

  • @JCNY718
    @JCNY718 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is so dope would have loved to go on this adventure with you! So many cool photos to be had. Have fun keep safe.

  • @NilVG
    @NilVG 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love your videos!!❤❤ Reminds me of home. Don’t tell my parents😅, but i went to an abandoned school party. Will never forget it! They figured out a way to go all the way to the roof -at night! 😂

  • @DataD-o1p
    @DataD-o1p 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The American Airlines MD80 is my all time favorite plane. Was fortunate to fly plenty of them.

  • @Intruder730
    @Intruder730 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I used to work there. That is where we will configure aerial targets for the Navy to train with. Specifically BQM-34 and BQM-74.

  • @kazzda
    @kazzda 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Welcome aboard flight 101 from Lau airlines, please fasten your seatbelts! Damn how awesome exploring a plane like that especially with no one in it

  • @Julian-o1i
    @Julian-o1i 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for the tour. I was a Flight Attendant for while back in the late 70's and early 80's for Texas International Airlines. We flew the DC-9 which is pretty identical to the MD80 but longer. Your adventure aboard the plane took me back to that time again. Identical interior. Blast form the past. Oh, the flaps were fully extended... you could have gone through the over-wing exit and slid down the wing when you exited the aircraft. I cringed when you exited the galley service door. Next time!

  • @MagnumOpusSRT
    @MagnumOpusSRT 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That’s an American Airlines MD80 N426AA aka Super 80. It was built in 1986. I last flew that one in May of 2018 as pilot. They are sturdy and safe aircraft. The door in the back is the aft air stairs that could lower in case there was no jet bridge or front stairs.
    Interesting find. Keep exploring. You never know what you will find. I believe it ended up in PR as a part of a school for mechanics to learn on.

  • @sheldonrigsby3523
    @sheldonrigsby3523 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That is very cool, I would be doing the same thing; crawling all over that plane. In early 2001 I found a 747 sitting by the Maxton airport in NC, got ran off by security, turned out to be a training aid for Army SF. In the 70s we found an A26 and an F102 near the Fresno airport. Good exploring, there are many more stories. Btw, I hope you have a weapon, watch out and stay safe.

  • @jacquelinerosado7968
    @jacquelinerosado7968 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Laura, my sister from another mother Tvs were introduced in planes in1988, so the plane you are on is before 1988

  • @rossmartenak5517
    @rossmartenak5517 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lau, I admire your courage to explore old airliners. I never had the opportunity to do so. Keep up the fun work & stay safe. Please let me know if you ever explore a Convair 580, my favorite propliner. Ross

  • @lymariacevedo6844
    @lymariacevedo6844 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ay Lau perdoname por reírme tan fuerte cuando te levantaste despues de curarte el dedo...y te das con la puerta en la frente jajajajaja “this plane is trying to kill me “ jajajajaajjajajajajajja

  • @eliezerrivera9203
    @eliezerrivera9203 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    That was my school back in 2010-2011

  • @pacoa.6598
    @pacoa.6598 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very cool video Lau. I have actually flown out of that airport on a short hop to Culebra with Air Flamenco.

  • @Ranthra1
    @Ranthra1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The Boeing 727 has a set of stairs in the back of it, and I believe that is one.
    Watch your toes! 😸😹😻

    • @floridaheat305
      @floridaheat305 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It's a md 82 very old plane

    • @Ranthra1
      @Ranthra1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I stand corrected. It does have the look of a 727.@@floridaheat305

    • @rvborimax
      @rvborimax 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Its an MD80, tge B727 had three engines and the MD89 did have a rear door with stairs

    • @rvborimax
      @rvborimax 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I meant MD80