Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
From "Mayday', Season 12, Episode 8: On December 28, 1978, United Airlines Flight 173 was on approach to Portland when a routine landing gear issue turned into a fight for survival. For over an hour, the crew circled the city, obsessed with a malfunctioning indicator light while their fuel tanks ran dry. With all four engines flamed out and only 90 seconds to live, Captain Malvin McBroom performed a feat of manual airmanship that saved hundreds of lives. Despite the 100-ton jet plowing through a wooded suburb and destroying a home, his precision steering resulted in zero ground fatalities
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From "Mayday', Season 12, Episode 8: On December 28, 1978, United Airlines Flight 173 was on approach to Portland when a routine landing gear issue turned into a fight for survival. For over an hour, the crew circled the city, obsessed with a malfunctioning indicator light while their fuel tanks ran dry. With all four engines flamed out and only 90 seconds to live, Captain Malvin McBroom performed a feat of manual airmanship that saved hundreds of lives. Despite the 100-ton jet plowing through a wooded suburb and destroying a home, his precision steering resulted in zero ground fatalities
Licensed to Little Dot Studios.
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