Talk:United Airlines Flight 173

Street location of crash
It says "near 158th and East Burnside". It should say "NE 158th Ave". There is a "SE 158th Ave" also. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.250.7.184 (talk) 14:08, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ Valfontis (talk) 01:25, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Possibility Of Earth's Fluid Neutron Matter Affecting Functioning Of The Mind
I know this is considered fringe science but the Juno spacecraft will make a gravity assist flyby on October 9, 2013 at an altitude of 310 miles. A large flyby anomaly is likely, which is a mystery force accelerating the spacecraft towards the surface of the Earth. I've deduced that this force acts on the fluid fuels and so similarly would act on aircraft hydraulic, fuel and electrical systems. It also would affect the fluids and functioning of the human mind. This fits with McBroom's fixation with the landing gear light indicator after a clear air turbulence event and 1.6g acceleration which has been found to occur in more recent CAT data recorded events. 176.24.226.120 (talk) 11:25, 20 August 2013 (UTC) Alan Lowey.

I'd be interested to hear your deductions/reasoning on this matter, not to mention what the "Earth's fluid neutron matter" is. (58.175.171.223 (talk) 15:01, 30 November 2015 (UTC))

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You're right, that's fringe. May the Force be with you. The truth is out there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:643:8D00:970:417E:5054:5664:74 (talk) 06:59, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

reference to 'broken man' is incomplete
The last section of the 'aftermath' section reads: (Captain McBroom) died on October 9, 2004 at age 77,[10] "a broken man."[7]

I was curious about this, and looked at reference 7, which is a link to the wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayday_(TV_series). I suspect the information is correct, but the reference link should be to a particular episode of the show. Thus the reference could be verified. Benthatsme (talk) 16:14, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Lacks details about the crash landing
While this article covers the cause of the crash, it omits details about the crash itself. Was the crew able to glide the plane with any effectiveness, and for how long and far? Did the pilot purposely steer to the impact site? Was he trying to make an off-runway landing? What did the plane impact and what parts of the plane suffered damage? How did so many survive? Any fire? How did survivors exit the wreck? What notable passengers were on board? 01:24, 28 July 2014 (UTC)Steve0701 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.114.4.87 (talk)


 * Yes, there seems to be a section missing. The article goes straight from the departure at Denver to a description of casualties. The next section implies that the captain lowered the gear prior to landing and then circled around while diagnosing a problem with the gear lights, but there's no description of the actual crash. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 21:43, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

I was about to add a section in the talk page, too. This article is missing information. I had to piece together what probably happened. This article, therefore, should be nominated as a featured article because it would be fixed Whiskeymouth (talk) 04:37, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

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"that model aircraft"
When I first read this I briefly thought it meant a small scale model of a plane that you can make at home with a kit! Surely it would be better English, and in any case a lot clearer, to write "that model of aircraft" (or simply "that type/kind of aircraft", in which the "of" would definitely be essential).188.230.248.85 (talk) 12:49, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Not just "a DC-8."
It would be useful to specify exactly what this aircraft was. It was not just "a DC-8" but a stretched DC-8-61, which happened to be about the largest airliner flying other than the 747. To call it "a DC-8" is like describing a traffic accident that involved "a Chevrolet." A Corvette sports car? A Suburban SUV? An Impala sedan? A Chevy pickup truck? Or, in a more relevant comparison, describing the recent (early 2019) airline crashes involving Boeing 737 Max-800s. You wouldn't just call them "737s," since the vast majority of 737 variants are irrelevant to these two crashes.173.62.17.119 (talk) 17:00, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Page updated 2/3/2021 to reflect the aircraft make and model description — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeff5001 (talk • contribs) 16:33, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

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Numbers don't add up
Passengers, number dead, survivors don't compute.

If numbers right, survivor total should be 171, not 179. 70.190.65.59 (talk) 21:11, 1 April 2023 (UTC)