One of those incidents was the collision of two airliners at an airport in the Canary Islands that proved the worst in aviation history, killing more than 500 people.But the NTSB investigation into the incident in Portland proved a tipping point.By talking to witnesses, studying flight records and listening to the recordings of the conversations between McBroom, First Officer Roderick D. Beebe and Second Officer Forrest E. Mendenhall, NTSB officials were able to determine that McBroom didn't listen to what they were trying to tell him and that they weren't clear or assertive enough in trying to communicate with him.According to the accident report adopted by the NTSB on June 7, 1979, the probable cause of the accident was stated as follows:"The NTSB determined that the probable cause of the accident was the failure of the captain to monitor properly the aircraft's fuel state and to properly respond to the low fuel state and the crew-member's advisories regarding fuel state.
Six minutes later, his family reportedly heard Russell's voice requesting landing instructions on the airport radio, and saw his The aircraft struck the ground and cartwheeled through a government-operated 66 years later, the Long Creek Air Tragedy Memorial was erected to commemorate the crash and honor the victims.The granite for the Long Creek memorial came from a quarry in Phillip "Phee" Russell had played basketball, baseball, and football at South Portland High School before graduating in 1939 to attend the Russell's family and friends gathered at the Portland airport to await his arrival in patchy heavy fog. Instead, Capt.
"This resulted in fuel exhaustion to all engine's. GRESHAM, OR (KPTV) – Two men were taken to the hospital after a small plane crashed into a field in Gresham on Monday. The aircraft was …
West Coast Airlines Flight 956 was a scheduled commercial flight which crashed on October 1, 1966, approximately 5.5 miles (8.9 km) south of Wemme, Oregon, United States.Thirteen passengers and five crew members were aboard, and there were no survivors. (KOIN archives) (KOIN archives) Capt. Portland airliner crash in 1978 killed 10, but changed the way crews are trained.
UPDATE : Plane that crashed in South Portland had been inspected weeks before By David Hench dhench@mainetoday.com Staff Writer 2:47 p.m. A preliminary report on the fatal plane crash July 17 in South Portland notes that the plane was inspected and cleared for flight two weeks before the crash. The airport officially closed at 1635 because of the fog. On the morning of Dec. 29, 1978, The Oregonian carried the following triple-deck, bold-faced headline across the top of the front page:Below the headline was a deadline-written story about one of the worst aviation disasters in Oregon history. Updated Jan 10, 2019; Posted Dec 29, 2014 . Malburn McBroom in the hospital after the plane crash. Maine’s deadliest aviation disaster remains unexplained, 75 years later. 66 years later, the Long Creek Air Tragedy Memorial was erected to commemorate the crash and honor the victims. The paper devoted all or part of five pages to the incident on Dec. 29 and another six pages on Dec. 30.There were stories about the crash, reaction from those who lived nearby, those who responded to the scene and area officials. I know it's sincere," McBroom said. Malburn McBroom was obsessed with trying to solve a possible problem with the airplane's landing gear.As a result of McBroom focusing on the latter problem, the DC-8 ran out of fuel after breaking out of a holding pattern and trying to make it to a runway at Portland International Airport.Moments after the last of its four engines flamed out, the airliner glided silently to earth near the intersection of East Burnside and 157The Oregonian threw pretty much every available reporter and photographer at the coverage of the crash of United Flight 173 on the evening of Dec. 28, 1978.The result was several days of intense coverage, with much of it coming the first two days. United 173 crash. 6.
Below are copies of the pages that appeared in the newspaper during the first two days of coverage:While McBroom was credited with crash-landing the airplane in a way that minimized the loss of life, he was later faulted for bad judgment in not focusing on the bigger problem of the two he faced – the dwindling fuel supply.The incident was one of a string of deadly airline crashes that took place around the world in the 1970s that were eventually attributed, at least in part, to bad cockpit communication.
All rights reserved ( A similar memorial on Deer Mountain, 100 miles to the north, marks the site of Maine's second-worst plane crash. ".When the result of the investigation were released, and the communication problem was highlighted, it proved the first step toward airlines starting to use as NASA-developed program known as Cockpit Resource Management.Essentially, the program – usually referred to as CRM – makes sure that crews are trained in a way that everyone has a say in identifying problems and what can be done to solve them.CRM is now widely credited with helping make flying safer and reducing the number of airline incidents.As for the aftermath, survivors of the crash held a reunion on the 20McBroom, who had suffered a broken leg, shoulder and ribs in the crash, quietly accepted the applause he received but appeared uncomfortable and told reporter Catherine Trevison, who covered the event:"It's kind of bittersweet. There were stories about how well the crew performed and how well emergency planning worked.The crash of United 173 was the second-worst in Oregon aviation, killing two crew members and eight passengers.The worst had happened on Oct. 1, 1966, when all 18 aboard a West Coast Airlines DC-9 died when it crashed near the community of Wemme, on the western slopes of Mount Hood.called “Fatal Fixation” that detailed the sequence of events leading up to the crash, delved into the investigation and explained how the NTSB came to its conclusions.The 44-minute long production contains interviews with passengers, investigators and an air traffic controller who was in communication with Flight 173 in the hour leading up to the crash.But perhaps the biggest story was one that came out months later: The crash proved to be a major factor in changing the way flight crews on airliners communicate with each other.Because of the outcome of the investigation, major airlines all over the world began to change the way crews were trained.The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the first and second officers in the cockpit were unable to get the captain to focus on the real problem facing the troubled airliner – the crafts's rapidly shrinking fuel supply.