A Pilot Who Wouldn't Land (United Airlines Flight 173) - DISASTER BREAKDOWN

Situation awareness more like Stupid Negligence on the Captain that is just unacceptable he was told 3 times about fuel? Don’t make any sense

This landing gear problem had happened before. The main landing gear retract cylinder failed. This cylinder retracts the landing gear when it is raise. It also acts as a shock absorber when the landing gear is extended. If there is a total hydraulic failure the landing gear is extended by releasing the UP Locks and the gear just free falls into position. The retract cylinder acts as a shock absorber and stops the cushions the extension. If the retract cylinder has a structural failure the landing gear just slams down and probably not give a safe gear indication. Because the weather was good they had very little extra fuel. Once you put the landing gear down you start to burn fuel very quickly. I flew the DC8 as both as F/O and Captain and the only option the Captain had was to land immediately. The F/O and S/O should have been more forceful insisting they land NOW. Some things have to be expressed in loud. four letter words to get the point across. The Captain would have thanked them.

This is when you should speak up “CAPTAIN FUEL IS LOW CONTINUE APPROACH”

Painful to listen to this totally unnecessary disaster

I can't believe how many people survived this! I would love to see a fully lit animation showing where they landed compared to where the trees and homes were.. seems impossible

IDIOT

Captain Dumb Ass, reporting for duty…how frustrating to watch.

I will never understand why when their lives at at risk the first officers do not just take over flying the plain, from a stubborn Captain, we have watched this happen again and again..

Hope they FIRED ALL THREE OF THEM!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 He killed those 10 people, as if he shot them. Retired, 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅, no, they fired him!

It was Burnside St that the plane landed on.

My house was about 500' away.

The aircraft was largely intact, but had broken enough that much of it's styrofoam insulation littered the street for miles.

Running out of fuel because you aren't paying attention is one of the dumbest ways there is to crash a plane.

Do they put cameras on the belly of the planes now day's? Seems so simple, cars all have them for backing up

Retired? He should rot in prison for sheer stupidity

Emergency landings suck, and most of them end in not the best way. but you at least landed in somewhat a “controlled” manner.

delaying trying to land because “it doesn’t feel right” is just ludicrous when you have no fuel. you don’t get to choose how you land at that point. just get it done :(

There was no fire because there was no fuel.

Going belly down on the runway is probably better than crashing but pilots are so fucking stupid that they can't tell the difference

A little bit of perspective, how about the millions that are killed either on purpose or by accident at the hands of soldiers at war paid for by your tax dollars all over the corrupt world...?..you are an accessory to those deaths, as tax is actually theft and is not collected by law..it's given voluntarily by force, deception, trickery, under duress...,..the normies are so fickle...sleep well...

How many narrator in this channel?

OMG! I can hear myself now... "Look, Cap... you're GONNA land. Either were gonna run outta fuel, and land off the airport when that happens, or you can fly us to the damned airport. We can take our chances with the gear there. Now fly the damn plane!"

My controls
MY CONTROLS!
Move over, captain. We're either cart-wheeling this thing on landing or touching down smooth as butter.
Either way, I'm putting this bird down.