Judul bazaar yang dipake sekolah saya , Flight 173 , yang nyeritain tentang pesawat yang kecelakaan dan akhirnya terdampar di sebuah pulau dengan para penumpang yg masih survive dan akhirnya malah bikin konser,ternyata beneran terjadi pada th 1978 . Ghyahahaha baru tau sia. Padahal (mungkin) maksudnya pake no 173 itu gara2 no . sekolah , tapi ternyata emang beneran ada pesawat United Airlines, Inc., Flight 173 yang kecelakaan .
Investigation: United Airlines Flight 173
About 1815 Pacific standard time on December 28, 1978, United Airlines, Inc., Flight 173 crashed into a wooded, populated area of suburban Portland, Oregon, during an approach to the Portland International Airport. The aircraft had delayed southeast of the airport at a low altitude for about 1 hour while the flightcrew coped with a landing gear malfunction and prepared the passengers for a possible emergency landing. The plane crashed about 6 nmi southeast of the airport. The aircraft was destroyed; there was no fire. Of the 181 passengers and 8 crewmembers aboard, 8 passengers, the flight engineer, and a flight attendant were killed and 21 passengers and 2 crewmembers were injured seriously.
The National Transportation Safety Board 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 crewmember’s advisories regarding fuel state. This resulted in fuel exhaustion to all engines. His inattention resulted from preoccupation with a landing gear malfunction and preparations for a possible landing emergency.
Contributing to the accident was the failure of the other two flight crewmembers either to fully comprehend the criticality of the fuel state or to successfully communicate their concern to the captain.
1. FACTUAL INFORMATION
1.1 History of the Flight
On December 28, 1978, United Airlines, Inc., Flight 173, a McDonnell-Douglas DC-8-61 (N8082U), was a scheduled flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, to Portland International Airport, Portland, Oregon, with an en route stop at Denver, Colorado.
Flight 173 departed from Denver about 1447 1/ with 189 persons on board, including 6 infants, and 8 crew members. The flight was cleared to Portland on an instrument flight rules (IFR) flight plan. The planned time en route was 2 hrs 26 min. The planned arrival time at Portland was 1713.
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kebetulan kah? atau emang si kakak2 yang nentuin judul terinspirasi dari cerita ini? yah gtau lah 
