Is the Comet going to be grounded in AM? Or can I buy it without hesitation?
I don't think it will be. If that was the case, we'd also have the DC-10 being grounded in 1977 (or whatever year AA 191 crashed). The game dosn't seem to take crashes into consideration, so I highly doubt we'll see anything like a mass grounding.
May 25th 1979......
I got evacuated from school, I was in 3rd grade in Elk Grove Village. We were getting out of school, and they rounded all of us kids up and took us to the Police/Fire Station and made our parents come and get us. The aircraft actually went down in Des Plaines, just off the north end of O'Hare. It was a big empty field and a mobile home park then. Elk Grove Village is just east of there.
FWIW, the DC-6B was grounded in 1947 for a series of mysterious in-flight fires. One of these was United 608.