[or-roots] Portland plane crash

[Leslie Chapman]

Tsk, Tsk you forgot to change subject line and almost got ignored.

I don't know about phone service, I think town may have had phone not long
after 1900, Connie??

As to the plane crash, I remember it because my late nephews and their
wife/mom were about ten blocks from it when it went down. I find a reference
to a UAL crash on 12/28/1978 but don't think that is the one as elsewhere
saw reference to it being a crash on takeoff which the one you refer to
wasn't.

Okay after three hours of searching I finally typed in "ran out of fuel" and
found it in thirty seconds;

On December 28, 1978. a DC-8 ran out of fuel at Portland, Oregon.
    The flight originated from J. F. Kennedy Airport, New York, via Denver

At 18.15 the DC-8 crashed into a wooded section of suburban Portland, six
miles east-south-east of the airport. Fortunately it did not catch fire. The
flight engineer, a flight attendant and eight passengers were killed.
Twenty-three other passengers were seriously injured. The fault in the
undercarriage was found to be due to a burned-out light bulb.

for full text of cockpit conversation in this "stupidity crash" see;

http://www.najaco.com/books/aviationchorus/accidents_3.htm

I'll try to get back to you on the phone thing.

Les Chapman

-----Original Message-----
From:  Eugene Barnes
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 3:51 PM

Hi:

Does any one know when the area of Bayview/Waldport first had Telepones
and Electrice lighting?

Also does any one from the Portland area recall hearing about an airplane
that
crashed near Bybie (sp) Street in Porland, circa 197-22 or thereabouts?  My
Grandmother who lived our on 68th Ave S.E. spoke of it and I beleive she had
a piece of the rubberized fabric from that aircraft.

Gene Barnes
Costa Mesa, CA
http://sosinet.sos.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/or-roots
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