There was one final change that came out of the crash of Delta flight 1141 one that was foreshadowed on the cockpit voice recording. Flight Engineer Judd later recalled another incident in which a first officer had called out flaps 25 even though the flaps were mistakenly set to 15 degrees, simply because flaps 25 was what he was expecting to say. Wanneer u onze sites en apps gebruikt, gebruiken we, gebruikers authenticeren, veiligheidsmaatregelen toepassen en spam en misbruik voorkomen, en, gepersonaliseerde advertenties en content weergeven op basis van interesseprofielen, de effectiviteit meten van gepersonaliseerde advertenties en content, en, onze producten en services ontwikkelen en verbeteren. Im pretty confident that if Im not reinstated (by Delta), my airline career is ruined, Judd said. There was just one problem: he was going by rote memorization and wasnt actually checking each of the settings that he was reading back. It is common for pilots to get to know each other well over the course of a days work, and this crew was certainly no exception. As dozens of passengers were rushed to hospital, firefighters entered the plane and extracted the three badly injured pilots from the cockpit, making them the last to leave the plane alive. If Judd had mentioned the light, Davis and Kirkland could have realized something was wrong. DALLAS (AP) _ The flight engineer on Delta Flight 1141, which crashed on takeoff and killed 14 people in 1988, says he did his job right, and the National Transportation Safety Board agrees. Davis received the award for his actions during a battle in Bong Son, Republic of Vietnam, June 17-18, 1965. As a result, the takeoff warning system was extremely unreliable. I feel that I do need to say something, that I did my job that day, Judd, 32, said in interviews published Monday. Kirkland also said he could not account for the fact that the flaps were found to be in a raised position by NTSB investigators. Shortly after the accident, Judds commander at the Dallas Naval Air Station in Grand Prairie said he could come back any time, Judd said. Subsequent to this, a Delta flight landed on the wrong runway; another flight landed at the wrong airport; and two flights took off without permission from air traffic control. Flames immediately erupted from the ruptured fuel tanks, sending a column of black smoke rising over Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. How about looking down our way while we still have teeth in our mouths? said Flight Engineer Judd. The discussion also touched on the 1988 presidential race, about which Kirkland had much to say. Larry Davis told a hearing Tuesday into the crash of Flight 1141 that before takeoff he often substituted hand signals for spoken commands, which are recommended but not required by the Federal Aviation Administration. In fact, in 1987 Delta suffered no less than six serious incidents and near misses that were blamed on pilot error. The ground controller finally gave them their next set of instructions, after which the pilots and Dunn immediately jumped back into their conversation, which had by now expanded to include Kirklands military experience, drink mixes, and several other topics unrelated to flight operations.