Setting Yourself On Fire | United Airlines Flight 608

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United Air Lines Flight 608 was a Douglas DC-6 airliner, registration NC37510, on a scheduled passenger flight from Los Angeles to Chicago when it crashed at 12:29 pm on October 24, 1947 about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southeast of Bryce Canyon Airport, Utah, United States. None of the five crew members and 47 passengers on board survived. It was the first crash of a DC-6, and at the time, it was the second-deadliest air crash in the United States, surpassed by Eastern Air Lines Flight 605 by only one fatality.

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[richdurbano]

Flying in the 1940's must have taken a world of courage.

[helenphillips]

They so nearly made the landing strip...so near and yet so far. R.I.P xx

[scottyjohnson]

So close. I was pulling for them to make it. How sad.

[PJHEATERMAN]

Im familiar with this accident. Been overhauling heaters for 36 years and on occasion i still do Dc-6 heaters for Alaska cargo operators. Consulted on the Ricky Nelson crash.

[jamesmelcher]

When I saw the indication of fire in the baggage compartment, I was expecting that this was going to be one of those cases where luggage or cargo was carrying unsafe materials that started a fire.

[andrewpetik]

Wow... like a lot of these ....it is amazing, in hindsight, how easily avoidable the accidents seem.

[darksteering]

Mate, ive watched you ever since middle school. Now im in university. This is by far my favourite air disasters channel. Keep it up my man🙌🙌

[psalmforliberty]

"The advance in aviation safety is written in blood, paid for by prior generations to whom we owe a great debt"

[StephenLuke]

RIP
To the passengers and crew of United Air Lines Flight 608

[MightyMezzo]

I find these videos about decades-old crashes quite fascinating. Have you done Northwest Orient flight 2501? It went down in Lake Michigan in 1950. Some of the dead are in a mass grave in St Joseph, MI where my mom lives.

[ergie]

So dang sad. I still pray for all involved in all of these tragic crashes, no matter how many years have passed.

[muffsmercury]

The DC-6 first year of operation was in 1947 and there were two crashes but after that it would become a reliable plane and was in airline service into the mid 1960s (I flew on one in 1963) and flew on charter and freighter service for many more years. Everts in Alaska still has four still flying.

[billyponsonby]

The most heroic and heartbreaking story I’ve seen. The wiki page is worth a visit.

[WendyKS]

My heart just sank when I heard that crash because I was so in hopes that somehow they would manage to land the plane.

[Chicken_Nugget]

4:40 - Anyway enough about that.

Time to rock on 🎸!!

[weofnjieofing]

So close to safety yet ultimately so far away

[chuckg]

Intake downstream from a exhaust? How freaking brilliant!!

[adammcdonald]

And that was when Douglas moved the cabin air inlets to the very nose (DC 8)

[omega]

Oh, that's a nice piece of design engineering. (Sarcasm).

[markwhitney]

Alec, there are a lot of copycats, but I have enjoyed your videos more. Keep up the good work, you do great.