Talk:United Air Lines Flight 608

Accident Sequence
There is extensive quoting in this section, as indicated by the quotation marks. But, no source or link given for those quotes. What is the proper procedure, to correct that situation, so that it conforms to Wiki policies? EditorASC (talk) 21:08, 26 August 2009 (UTC)


 * According to the text just before the large quoted section begins, the source is the Oct. 25, 1947 edition of "The Bridgeport (Conn.) Post. You're correct that it would be better to have a linkable source in order to verify those extensive quotations.  In any case, I'm wondering if too much is being directly quoted from that newspaper article, per WP:FAIRUSE.  In July 2009 I found some archived newspaper articles online dealing with the crash, and created the external links section in the hope that someone (or myself, when I get the time) could use them for references, while avoiding excessive verbatim quotations.  The article definitely needs more inline citations, and given the linkable material available it should be possible to cite extensively.  --Itsfullofstars (talk) 03:01, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Revised death toll
An article in the December 13 1992 issue of the Deseret News states:

1947 BRYCE CANYON CRASH CLAIMED 53 VICTIMS, NOT 52  New research shows that the death toll in a 1947 airline crash in Bryce Canyon National Park matched the record for U.S. aviation history up to that time.The official death toll was set at 52 following the Oct. 24, 1947, crash of the United Airlines DC-6, one less than the national record for the time. But a recent review of mortuary records in Richfield showed that a newborn baby, possibly forced from its mother's womb as a result of the crash, also died, bringing the total to 53...

An excerpt from the article is available here:  I'm considering updating wikipedia to state there were 53 deaths, using that link as a reference. Doing so would likely require changing a few other wikipedia articles as well, since the additional victim would make this crash tied for the deadliest in the US at that time, not the 2nd most deadly. --Itsfullofstars (talk) 06:43, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Introduction
"It was the first crash of a DC-6, and at the time it was the second deadliest air crash in the United States and the deadliest air crash involving the DC-6." As it was the first crash of a DC-6, it's not surprising it was also the deadliest at the time. Is this superfluous information? 80.189.144.94 (talk) 22:37, 26 August 2011 (UTC) Jon

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This source is not usable on archive.org due to its dependence on a database. Replaced by another source Grahamj42 (talk) 08:36, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

Aftermath
This section claims that this was the first air accident to involve reconstruction of the wreckage to determine the cause: but this is not correct. The book 'Air Crash' by Fred Jones (ISBN 0-7090-2161-5) describes this process in detail and includes photographs of reconstructed aircraft showing this was routine in the UK as early as 1941. As there is no reference given for this section I'd suggest deleting the first two paragraphs.

Update: taking the above unsigned paragraph at face value, I've removed the claim that this was the first aircraft wreckage reconstruction. Maybe it was a first for the U.S. but I don't know for sure. Itsfullofstars (talk) 10:43, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
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