Delta Air Lines Flight 191: A Cabin Crew Perspective

On August 2nd, 1985, a Delta Air Lines Lockheed L-1011 Tristar took off from Fort Lauderdale and headed for Los Angeles via Dallas-Fort Worth. Prior to departure from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL), the flight crew had received no particular warning about the weather apart from notice of an area of isolated thunderstorms over Oklahoma and northeastern Texas.