Overview
On 28 December 1978, the crew of United Airlines Flight 173 is preoccupied with a landing gear problem as the aircraft circles in a holding pattern in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon. It runs out of fuel and crashes in a sparsely populated area, killing 10 and seriously injuring 24 of the 189 on board. According to the NTSB, the pilot failed to acknowledge the warnings of the remaining crew regarding the aircraft's fuel state, while the remaining crew failed to adequately communicate the situation. The NTSB recommendation from this event led to the industry-wide implementation of Crew resource management (CRM) protocols.
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12 - 1Fight for Control (Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8) August 03, 2012 -
12 - 2Fire in the Hold (ValuJet Flight 592) August 10, 2012 -
12 - 3Caution to the Wind (Singapore Airlines Flight 006) August 17, 2012 -
12 - 4Pushed to the Limit (SilkAir Flight 185) August 24, 2012 -
12 - 5Blind Landing (TANS Perú Flight 204) August 31, 2012 -
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12 - 7Death of the President (2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154) January 27, 2013 -
12 - 8Catastrophe at OHare (American Airlines Flight 191) February 25, 2013 -
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12 - 10Focused on Failure (United Airlines Flight 173) March 11, 2013 -
12 - 11Heading to Disaster (Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409) March 25, 2013 -
12 - 1228 Seconds to Survive (Santa Barbara Airlines Flight 518) April 01, 2013 -
12 - 13Vanished (Air France Flight 447) April 15, 2013