Originally Posted by
Super VC-10
I thought that practice had been abandoned after AA191 in 1979, where the passengers were able to watch their impending doom.
The lawyers representing the victims certainly claimed that that had increased the passengers' suffering, though I suppose you could argue (no disrespect intended) that even the most infrequent traveller would already have worked out that banking beyond the vertical on takeoff means your day isn't going to end well.
While external cameras are still in use, I don't think that live cockpit video feeds (also on AA191) survived long after that event.