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United Airlines Flight 173 was a scheduled flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, New York to Portland International Airport in Portland, Oregon, with a scheduled stop in Denver, Colorado. On December 28, 1978, the aircraft flying this route ran out of fuel, and crashed in a suburban Portland neighborhood near NE 158th Avenue and East Burnside Street. ==Flight== Flight 173 was piloted by an experienced cockpit crew, consisting of Captain Malburn McBroom (52), First Officer Roderick Beebe (45), and Flight Engineer Forrest Mendenhall (41). McBroom had been with United Airlines for 27 years: he was one of the airline's most senior pilots with more than 27,600 hours of flight time, of which about 5,500 hours had been as a DC-8 captain. Beebe had been with the airline for 13 years and had logged more than 5,200 flight hours. Mendenhall had accrued close to 3,900 flight hours and had been with the airline for 11 years. The first officer and flight engineer had over 2,500 hours of flying experience between them in the DC-8.〔 Flight 173 departed from Denver about 14:47 with 189 people on board. The estimated time en route was 2 hours and 26 minutes. The planned arrival time in Portland was 17:13. According to the automatic flight plan and monitoring system, the total amount of fuel required for the flight to Portland was 31,900 lbs. There was 46,700 lbs. of fuel on board the aircraft when it departed the gate in Denver. Of the crew members, two were killed, Flight Engineer Mendenhall and Flight Attendant Joan Wheeler, two sustained injuries classified by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) as "serious", and four sustained injuries classified as "minor/none." Eight passengers died, and 21 had serious injuries.〔"(UNITED AIR LINES, INC. MCDONNELL-DOUGLAS DC-8-61, N8082U PORTLAND, OREGON : DECEMBER 28, 1978 )." ''National Transportation Safety Board''. December 28, 1978. 9 (15/64). Retrieved on January 20, 2010.〕 The 304th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron of the Air Force Reserve, based at Portland International Airport, was conducting routine training flights in the area that evening. Airborne aircraft from this unit (HH-1H Huey helicopters) were immediately diverted to the crash scene and proceeded to transport many of the survivors to local hospitals. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「United Airlines Flight 173」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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