What Public Health Bureaucrats Could Learn from the NTSB
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On December 28, 1978, United flight 173 took off from JFK airport in New York bound for Portland, Oregon with a stopover in Denver. In the cockpit were Captain Malburn McBroom, First Officer Rod Beebe, and Engineer Forrest Mendenhall. The plane landed in Denver on time and without complication. After deplaning the first leg of the flight and boarding the new passengers for the final leg, the DC-8 aircraft pulled away from the gate with enough fuel to cover the flight plus an extra 65 minutes in case of an unforeseen delay getting into Portland. United 173 took off from Denver’s Stapleton Airport at 2:47 p.m. with Beebe at the controls and McBroom acting as co-pilot. At 5:00 p.m. the flight neared Portland under ideal landing conditions. As the plane descended to 7,000 feet, Beebe asked for the landing gear down. When McBroom lowered the wheels, a tiny problem popped up: the indicator lamp for the right main landing gear didn’t light up. The crew wasn’t sure whether or not the landing gear was locked in place.
What Public Health Bureaucrats Could Learn from the NTSB
What Public Health Bureaucrats Could Learn…
What Public Health Bureaucrats Could Learn from the NTSB
On December 28, 1978, United flight 173 took off from JFK airport in New York bound for Portland, Oregon with a stopover in Denver. In the cockpit were Captain Malburn McBroom, First Officer Rod Beebe, and Engineer Forrest Mendenhall. The plane landed in Denver on time and without complication. After deplaning the first leg of the flight and boarding the new passengers for the final leg, the DC-8 aircraft pulled away from the gate with enough fuel to cover the flight plus an extra 65 minutes in case of an unforeseen delay getting into Portland. United 173 took off from Denver’s Stapleton Airport at 2:47 p.m. with Beebe at the controls and McBroom acting as co-pilot. At 5:00 p.m. the flight neared Portland under ideal landing conditions. As the plane descended to 7,000 feet, Beebe asked for the landing gear down. When McBroom lowered the wheels, a tiny problem popped up: the indicator lamp for the right main landing gear didn’t light up. The crew wasn’t sure whether or not the landing gear was locked in place.