United Airlines 173 Portland Crash 

I know a lot of people who flew the DC8, and everyone loved it. They said it was just a great airplane.

The engineer told the captain repeatedly they were too low on fuel. The two even had a shouting match over the fuel situation.

Never understood why they never install small cameras under the wings and front to see if gear is down.

This is really a crazy accident. The captain was so focused he completely ignored everything around him. It's mind-boggling the fo didn't take control.

I was flying to Portland the same night as United Airlines Flight 173. However, I was flying on Continental Airlines on a flight that also departed Stapleton Airport in Denver. When my husband picked me up at the airport, he told me that there was crash at PDX just a few hours earlier. Of course, being in the other plane headed to Portland, I hadn't know anything about it

I remember it well. Fly plane is first priority, trouble shoot problems as time permits, but keep flying your plane.

At the time, I lived 7 miles from where this plane crashed. Back then the area was far less populated. If that happened today it would have been catastrophic. Far more death & destruction on the ground.

Cameras (or sensors) installed inside the plane to indicate if landing gear is stowed or not would be ideal. IMO this is more feasible than externally mounted cameras to check gear down, as others mentioned.

Nicely done and very informative.

Came here from Wikipedia. Went to Wikipedia out of curiosity from reading Chapter 2 of "Black Box Thinking" by Matthew Syed. Thanks for this

This crash was always brought up in CRM training when I flew as a C-141 flight engineer ✈️

Airline captains are still a very privileged class and put on "god-like" behaviour in countries such as Pakistan....with massive egos, they turn agressive and violent when challenged -- even if the challenge is legitimately founded.

Eastern 401 crash also instrumental in the development of CRM.

I can imagine as a pilot you would not want your legacy to be instrumental in the development and implementation of CRM.

That great show " Air Crash investigation" did a program on flight 173, very eye-opening..

Another reason (other than no fuel) there wasn't more fire at the crash site was Portland had just installed emergency electrical disconnects in that area. Once the power lines got ripped down, the system shut down the power. No fuel was a big help but the lack of live powerlines laying on the ground helped a lot. It's a 20-minute drive for me to visit that crash site.

The Captain had been part of an investigation of another DC-8 in Denver which led him to want to land with the least amount of fuel to prevent fire. With that goal he was successful.

all in all a nice piece. May I suggest tho, do not use the term "gas". Jet aircraft use jet fuel or kerosene, or Jet-A. Gas goes in your car.

deaths of people cause improvements in air safety- sad.

Please narrate this stuff, I hate a speed reading contest.

This was just flat stupid. Treat Every flight as if was the Firsr flight!

So, where did they land?

fly plane first, worry about the firetrucks second, and stop talking to the stewardess third. Make sure you got enough fuel to fly plane.

The text are to fast.. I can not read..

And this is a Pakistani gentleman who has obtained his Commercial Pilot's Certificate....a prospective airline captain. Note the imperious tones in which he introduces his flying club: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OetlEMJ-Vg4.html

As an example of what I have said below, refer to the infamous Air Blue crash of 2010. Here is a good video in this regard: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nZPcBoGUi7A.html

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Impossible. On bugs bunny when the plane ran out of gas it stopped.