United Airlines Flight 173: The Fuel Exhaustion Crash That Created Crew Resource Management
United Airlines Flight 173 departed Denver on the afternoon of December 28, 1978, bound for Portland, Oregon. The aircraft was a McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61, registration N8082U, carrying 181 passengers and a crew of eight under the command of Captain Malburn McBroom, a veteran pilot with more than 27,000 flight hours. First Officer Rodrick Beebe and […]
25 Things to Do on a Long Layover
A long layover is the kind of travel situation that sounds like a problem until you learn how to use it. Three hours minimum, more often six or eight, sometimes overnight: it is a block of time that belongs entirely to you, sitting inside one of the most interesting built environments on earth. The obstacle […]
Angelina Jolie’s Private Plane: The Cirrus SR22 She Actually Flies Herself
Most celebrities board their private jet the way other people catch a taxi. Angelina Jolie had a different idea. In 2004, watching aircraft with her young son Maddox at a small English airfield, she made a decision: she would learn to fly. She earned her private pilot’s license, added an instrument rating and a helicopter […]