Alone in Abandoned Airfield in Puerto Rico
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- 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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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 🙏
Well people usually have more respect for historical items like this outside the USA
Stfu PR is a dump
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
Obviously the plane was a parts unit, as evidence of the missing engines and avionics. Nice to explore though.
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.
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 🫶🏼
MD80 donated by AA for Airframe & Powerplant mechanics license training.
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.
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
Thx man. I’m have been looking at it only knowing it’s a mcdoglas
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.
Wow - All-RIGHT ! 😃👍
Thank you for adding appropriate background/story to the video. 👍
That plane is a MD-82, delivered to American Airlines in October 1986.
Except it's an MD-80. Similar, but different. But of course you knew that already lol
@@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.
@@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.
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.
My trademark 😂 thank you so much for the words, I’m so happy you enjoy the vidz 🥺 YOU are awesome thank you
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.
Love your adventurous nature, you’re probably the best CZcamsr I’ve come across. Keep up the badass journeys, be safe.
Thank you so much ❤️ always safe ish
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 ..🙏🏾💖🤗
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.
⛑️🦺🙏🇵🇷💯😁😁😁
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.
Why didn't she exit out the back door, with steps?
@@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 🤣
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.
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.
@@StephenBishopNOMADBoeing
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Omg, yes. I lived on the base as a kid. You are awesome. Thank you. Love this.
Finally a CZcamsr from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
You should not go alone.... beautiful as it is, the place is unsafe and isolated.
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!
I love this 😂 thank you I’m so glad you wanna come visit my little island. She is just as crazy as me 👀
Girl, you have done it again for us!! Another awesome adventure. And your stewardess skills were impeccable. Have a nice flight!
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!
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.
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
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.
@@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?
Glad you carry a taser. Your safety is number 1. Awesome adventures
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!
As a retired A/C mechanic, I would never climb inside cargo pit. Cargo door could easily become unlatched. Trapped inside, no one around.
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!
I'm pretty sure the pressurized air inside would have kept the window in place.
I like watching,makes me feel like we're hanging out.
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.
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.
The one in the video is not a 727.
@@charlesstepson2932 looks like an MD-82 or something
@@dabneyoffermein595 It is a MD-82 withdrawn from service Aug 2018
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.
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.
It looks like a McDonnell Douglas (MD-82). It was introduced in the early 1980s. Good, reliable planes.
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😊
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!
I remember flying a Mac flight from the base on a similar plane. So many memories from Roosevelt Roads Puerto Rico.
I went there a few times in 1973 and 1974 in a P-3.
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
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
Such a cool video and I love how adventurous you are 😂I’m an airplane geek myself so I was living through your video
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! 😅
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👍
Real cool video!👌😎👍You’re one brave girl! And I like that! I like exploring places like that too! I find it fascinating exploring the unknowns! But be careful out there! 👋😂👍specially when wearing flip flops 🩴👋😎👍👉❤️🇵🇷 Greetings from Tucson, Arizona!
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.
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!!!
Thanks!
Thanks so much for this Jeffrey!!! ❤️❤️❤️🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼
Awesome video!🤗❤️
This episode is fantastic, but 'Lau and the Cave of Doom' is also great.
Thank youu 😂❤️
Real cool video! Thank you for sharing with us. I liked your encouragement too, get out and explore! Thanks again for sharing, I enjoyed.
The American Airlines MD80 is my all time favorite plane. Was fortunate to fly plenty of them.
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.
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.
Truly i salute your bravery and your genuine adventurous spirit and being appreciative of showing thus to us 🙏
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.
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.
This video will bring a lot of plane nerds lol, including me.
MD-80 are amazing planes. Classic plane.
This is so freaking cool!! If I still live in PR, definitely check it out.
A ex American Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD80,one of my favorite types of planes!!! AA retired the last one of their's in 2019 💙💙❤❤🤍🤍 and yea its a plane from the 1980s
Cool, next time im there i'll have to check that out.
MadDog FTW~!
"FLAAAAAAPS, STABILZER MOTION~! "
Que genial que tuvo la exploración. Realmente me sentí a tu lado. Una experiencia muy linda. Gracias me suscribo y hasta pronto.
you're an amazing CZcamsr! love your work!!
Thank you!!
❤ 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
i hope you get better soon!! What an honor that I was able to make you feel better
@@LauWasHere you're very welcome lau and thank you I'm feeling a lil better .
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 :)
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. 😃😃🤪
Your video was in my related. I subbed because you're so cool. Love your style. :)
You’re way awesome, I absolutely love your blogging style. Also your cute sense of adventure. Stay safe out there
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.
Antonio muchas gracias por este comentario ❤️ me hizo el dia! Bienvenida al canal y espero que disfrutes del contenido! Saludos a Venezuela, bello pais
Como se llama este lugar donde esta este avión? Es un Aeropuerto abandonado?
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.
Great video.. Restored a few planes in my time. Few a a local Air Museum in Connecticut. And Volluntaired at the Air n Space Museum in DC Garber facility many years ago.. keep up the great videos. Had a freind 10 years ago tha look just like you and personality.
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!!!!!
Wow, I remember "Rosie Roads" from back in my Navy days, late 80's. What a neat and unique experience this must have been. Sort of an apocalyptic, end of the world vibe No zombies, LOL. Thanks for the video. Next time, wear boots.
I like very much your videos, I hope very soon visit the island 👋🙂
OMG you’re so fun! You’re the friend I’ve been missing my whole life!
Awesome video Laura, thank you!!!!
🆒 Video Laura !!!!!
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! 😂
There is an abandoned hospital at the highest point of the base.
My son was born in that hospital.
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!
Cool...I was stationed on that base from November 1995 to December 1998. I enjoy All videos of the old base.
19:02 Welcome back to flying, '80s style!
Thank you very much for sharing your journey with us!
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
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
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
That is an Amazing find . I can't believe they abandoned a commercial plane .Thanks for recording it .
I know right?! Thank YOU for watching 🫶🏼
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
Excellent vid! Wow. But I felt old as hell when you said it was from the 80's. LOL!
Thanks 😂
cuz you know, flip flops are the perfect idea when trekking through any wilderness. lol
Stay safe laura thank you for sharing godblees 🙏💖🥰
Thank you for watching 🫶🏼
Very cool video Lau. I have actually flown out of that airport on a short hop to Culebra with Air Flamenco.
This was such a cool and entertaining video thank u so much!
Buen vídeo keep the good work love it 😊
🆒 Video Laura !!!! Like the way U acted Like A Flight Attendant showing how the oxygen mask work !!!!
12:35 What you shoulda been wearin lol! 12:40 - Inspector Clouseau fever! 🤪
Bueno hacia tiempo q no me suscribia a un canal y hoy estaba viendo uno de tus videos el q se llama Puerto Ricos secret nudist beach and the part that you showed Yairs pinchos and you said you had 7,000 subscribers it's when I decided to subscribe to your channel and I said I'll be 7,001 love your channel my 83 year old mother love's your channel even more my mother is from that area you guys are in there's a little town called Florida near Barceloneta Manati my grandparents are from that area in Barceloneta there's a place called el cruce Davila that I believe it has to do with my grandfathers side of the family when they married they were the Davila-Rivera family they later move to Santurce and later to San Jose my mother and I live in Santa Clarita California 30 minutes north of Los Angeles keep it up you have two new viewers love your channel❤
Wow, what an adventure!✔️✔️✔️ I saw this video by chance and I loved what you did I'm a fan of airplanes and taking a walk to see that abandoned MD 80 is an experience that I would like to experience, that has to have been another of the jets that AA donated for aeronautics students✔️ ✈️ there is another one like that but in better condition at the children's museum in Carolina I wonder how you got there or got in there, I have been to the base after they left and I didn't know that Jet was there there. It is priceless to inspect it and take several photos and a souvenir video✔️✈️♥️
Flew one out of Ponce back in 2021 after working 3 months on Hurricane storm work restoring power.
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 ❤
Hi it great to see u again sweetie pie. It's a beauty to making it a home.
Douglas DC-9 80 series, seems the longest stretch version of the DC-9. Placard is in the entry doorframe LH side behind the cockpit. You entered via the galley front door. The round tail-cone lying by the main landing gear shows it is a DC-9. Md-80 just an updated DC-9 has a flat tipped tail-cone. The blueish cockpit is also DC-9ish. Merger with McDonnell in late 60s, McDonnell Douglas, James McDonnell & Donald Douglas. Building 80 in Long Beach California the final assembly hangar that still stands, now a Boeing name with a Douglas logo on Lakewood Blvd. Pratt & Whitney JT-8 engines. Avionics entry just aft of nose-gear, leads to what you saw near captain's seat, an access to cockpit. The 12 volt power plugs a later update from when this was made. The last American Airlines MD-80s were recently retired. Boeing took over in late 90s. Former Douglas inspector for all planes development/first article, later Flightline MD-80s and a bit on MD-11s & C-17s. 3/2 seating except business class 2/2. My last test flight was Long Beach to Palmdale & return in April of 1992. Rear ladder that also 727's have, APU plus fire bottles on port side just aft of pressurized cabin. Internal ladder on main entry door lower. Retired Boeing, McDonnel Douglas & Rockwell North American Aviation plus USAF A-10A's & HH-3Es. My pages are noruststudios & VotecEV
so this is NOT an MD-80 or 82?
Basically the same but slightly older. Would be called a DC-9 80 or 82 series. Changing the Douglas Commercial designation to a more modern McDonnell Douglas one. Same with the MD-11 being an update DC-10, longer and a few updates. Tan is the cockpit color on MD-80s, except for Scadinavian countries. We put out more AA MD-80s than any other customer while I was there. @@dabneyoffermein595
Is yours N429AA or N426AA I found 426 is in Roswell NM, same faded look with flat MD-80 tail. I found 429 newer with DC-9 round tail, WTH?? Is this on the borderline bwt DC-9 & MD-80 or what?? So then I find a 429 photo with a flat tail. Little crazy, @@dabneyoffermein595
@@VotecEV2 Interesting.......I wasn't going by the tail number but the look of the cockpit and the nose-cone and tail-conical shape .... I will drill in deeper.
Mystery?? Maybe the tail-cones are interchangeable & someone wanted their DC-9 to look more modern taking the flat one, leaving this one. Avionics bay underneath has radio racks either side with 2 battery trays towards the front. No way I could handle that since I'm older, but I did go from there up to cockpit in my younger days. I believe the old 70s TV show shows McDonnell Douglas in the opening credits of Adam-12. Lakewood Blvd. would be closed off in the middle of the night on M-W-F to move planes across the street. Most of what was there was torn down on west side, assembly bldgs remain on east side. Over 42,000 employees on sight when I first hired on in 1988. @@dabneyoffermein595
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?
I did train there when I was in the military. Was a very active Naval Station, when you actually see F15 Flying over
That was my school back in 2010-2011
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.
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
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!
I worked on N426AA many times over the years at AA DFW. She was a great bird. RIP 80.