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United Airlines Flight 553 was a Boeing 737-222 that crashed on approach to Chicago Midway International Airport at 2:28 p.m. CST, on December 8, 1972.〔NTSB report AAR 73-16, synopsis (page 1, PDF page 4 of 65)〕 After the crew was told to go around and abort their first landing attempt on runway 31L at Midway Airport, the aircraft struck trees and then roofs along W. 71st Street before crashing into a house at 3722 W. 70th Place.〔"3 area residents reported dead, 4 missing, 7 homes destroyed in crash that killed 45", ''Southtown Economist'' (Chicago), December 10, 1972, p1〕 A total of 45 people were killed in the accident, 43 of them on the plane. The three-man flight crew died along with 40 of the 55 passengers.〔NTSB report AAR 73-16, section 1.2 (page 4, PDF page 7 of 65)〕 The crash destroyed five houses and damaged three others,〔NTSB report AAR 73-16, section 1.4 (page 5, PDF page 8 of 65)〕〔NTSB report AAR 73-16, appendix D (pages 39–41, PDF pages 43–45 of 65)〕 killing two people on the ground.〔 Among the passengers killed were Illinois Congressman George W. Collins and Dorothy Hunt, the wife of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt. Also killed were Michele Clark, a correspondent for CBS News and one of the first female African-American network correspondents, and Alex E. Krill, an ophthalmologist from the University of Chicago.〔() 〕 This crash was the first fatal accident involving a Boeing 737, which entered airline service in February 1968. ==Flight== United Airlines Flight 553 was a scheduled service from Washington National Airport to Omaha, Nebraska, via Chicago Midway International Airport. On December 8, 1972, the aircraft used for the flight was Boeing 737-222 ''City of Lincoln'', registration 〔NTSB report AAR 73-16, section 1.1 (page 2, PDF page 5 of 65)〕 The flight-deck crew consisted of Captain Wendell Lewis Whitehouse (44), First Officer Walter Coble (43) and Second Officer Barry Elder (31).〔NTSB report AAR 73-16, appendix B (page 36, PDF page 39 of 65)〕 The captain, a highly experienced pilot with approximately 18,000 flight hours to his credit, had been with the airline since 1956 and had logged 2,435 hours in the Boeing 737 cockpit. First Officer Coble had more than 10,600 flight hours under his belt and Second Officer Elder had close to 2,700 hours.〔http://libraryonline.erau.edu/online-full-text/ntsb/aircraft-accident-reports/AAR73-16.pdf〕 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 553」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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