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Mayday · S12 E10

Focused on Failure (United Airlines Flight 173)

2013-03-11 · 45 min

On 28 December 1978, the crew of United Airlines Flight 173 is 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, killing 10 and seriously injuring 24 of the 189 on board. According to the NTSB, the pilot failed to acknowledge the warnings of the remaining crew regarding the aircraft's fuel state, while the remaining crew failed to adequately communicate the situation. The NTSB recommendation from this event led to the industry-wide implementation of Crew resource management (CRM) protocols.

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Season 12 Episodes

  • E1Fight for Control (Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8)
  • E2Fire in the Hold (ValuJet Flight 592)
  • E3Caution to the Wind (Singapore Airlines Flight 006)
  • E4Pushed to the Limit (SilkAir Flight 185)
  • E5Blind Landing (TANS Perú Flight 204)
  • E6Grand Canyon Disaster (United Airlines 718 and Trans World Airlines 2)
  • E7Death of the President (2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154)
  • E8Catastrophe at OHare (American Airlines Flight 191)
  • E9Lokomotiv Hockey Team Disaster (2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Air Disaster)
  • E10Focused on Failure (United Airlines Flight 173)
  • E11Heading to Disaster (Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409)
  • E1228 Seconds to Survive (Santa Barbara Airlines Flight 518)
  • E13Vanished (Air France Flight 447)