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Ferguson v. NTSB, 678 F. 2d 821 (9th Cir. 1982) is a landmark aviation ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit handed down on June 2, 1982.. On July 31, 1979, Lowell G. Ferguson was the captain of a Western Airlines Boeing 737-200 jetliner operating as Flight 44 from Los Angeles, California, to seven destinations, including Las Vegas, Nevada; Denver, Colorado; and ...
Information on aircraft gives the type, and if available, the serial number of the operator in italics, the constructors number if the serial number is not known, also known as the manufacturer's serial number (c/n), exterior codes in apostrophes, nicknames (if any) in quotation marks, flight callsign in italics, and operating units.
The first accident involving a 737 was on July 19, 1970, when a 737-200 was damaged beyond repair during an aborted takeoff, with no fatalities; the first fatal accident occurred on December 8, 1972, when United Airlines Flight 553 crashed while attempting to land, with 45 (43 on board plus 2 on the ground) fatalities; and, as of February 2024 ...
December 8 – United Airlines Flight 553, a Boeing 737, crashed after aborting its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport, killing 43 of 60 people on board and two people on the ground; one of the fatalities is Dorothy Hunt, wife of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt. The crash was the first fatal crash involving the 737-200.
Boeing says they are ‘fully confident in the safety and durability’ of their planes despite a series of mishaps this week
This accident was also the first hull loss of a Boeing 737 Next Generation aircraft, [8] the first fatal accident of a Boeing 737-800, [3] [9] and the first Boeing 737 Next Generation accident to result in fatalities on board the aircraft; [10] [note 1] as of November 2023, it is still the forth-deadliest accident involving the 737 Next ...
United Airlines confirmed to Scripps News that United flight 433, a Boeing 737-800 jet, was discovered to have a large panel missing from the site of the plane after it landed at Rogue Valley ...
At the time of the crash, Flight 427 was the second-deadliest accident involving a Boeing 737 (all series); as of 2024, it now ranks as the ninth-deadliest. It was also the seventh-deadliest aviation disaster in the history of the United States, and the deadliest in the U.S. involving a 737; as of 2024, it ranks eleventh. [17]