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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 ...
The captain was 30-year-old Chris Miles, who had been with Pacific Western Airlines since 1967 and became a Boeing 737 captain 10 years later in 1977. He had 5,173 flight hours, including 2,780 hours on the Boeing 737. The first officer was 25-year-old Peter Van Oort, who had been with the airline since 1971 and became a 737 first officer in 1977.
The pilots were hailed as heroes for landing the plane only using the throttles. A DC-3 owned by and carrying the Minneapolis Lakers NBA team made an emergency landing in a cornfield near Carroll, Iowa, on January 17, 1960. The DC-3 had lost all electrical power. Future NBA Hall of Fame player Elgin Baylor was on board. [92]
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 ...
Attempted emergency landing due to runaway propellers and landing gear problems; see 1950 Fairfield-Suisun Boeing B-29 crash: Gennady Troshev: Russia 2008 Military commander Boeing 737: Perm, Russia pilot error, see Aeroflot Flight 821: Curtis Turner: United States 1970 NASCAR driver Aero Commander 500 Registration: N701X Mahaffey, Pennsylvania
Boeing says they are ‘fully confident in the safety and durability’ of their planes despite a series of mishaps this week
March 31, 1975: Western Flight 470 was landing at Casper Airport when it overshot the runway, and struck a shallow irrigation ditch before stopping about 800 feet beyond the departure end of the runway. Weather conditions at the time were at minimum visibility with light snow. The Boeing 737-200 was written off beyond repair.
The National Transportation Safety Board has issued an urgent warning to airlines that fly the Boeing 737, saying a failure first seen on a United Airlines flight in February could cause problems ...