Air Disasters

S4, EP8 "Focused on Failure"

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On 28 December 1978, the crew of United Airlines Flight 173 are 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.

Original Air Date: Jul 27, 2014Smithsonian Channel45m

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