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Aircraft Accident Report: United Airlines, Inc., McDonnell-Douglas DC-8-61, N8082U, Portland, Oregon, December 28, 1978
National Transportation Safety Board. Aircraft Accident Report: United Airlines, Inc., McDonnell-Douglas DC-8-61, N8082U, Portland, Oregon, December 28, 1978. NTSB-AAR-79-7. Washington, DC: NTSB, 1979. https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR7907.pdf.
Why this matters here
NTSB Aircraft Accident Report AAR-79-7 investigates United Airlines Flight 173 near Portland on December 28, 1978: a landing-gear indication problem led the crew into a holding pattern while fuel exhaustion developed into a crash. The World We Make Together uses the event to show how the person in the chair decides which warnings to hear and how uncertainty is treated under authority. The report establishes the accident’s facts and findings; the book asks how structure magnifies what the occupant notices or fails to notice.
