- ACCIDENT DETAILS
Date: November 11, 1965
Time: 1752
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Operator: United Air Lines
Flight #: 227
Route: NY-Clevland-Chicago-Denver-Salt Lake City-SF
AC Type: Boeing B-727-22
Registration: N7030U
cn / ln: 18322/130
Aboard: 91   (passengers:85  crew:6)
Fatalities: 43   (passengers:43  crew:0)
Ground: 0
Summary: The aircraft crashed short of the runway and collided with runway lights, 335 feet short of the runway, causing the main landing gear to fail followed by a fire. Too high of a descent rate during approach. Failure of the captain to take timely action to arrest an excessive descent rate during the landing approach. Excessive sink rate is thought to have caused four 727 accidents in succession. Lake Michigan 8/16/65, Cincinnati 11/8/65, Salt Lake City 11/11/65 and Tokyo Bay 2/4/66. Only the Salt Lake and Cincinnati accidents were officially attributed to it. Although the accident was survivable, most of the fatalities were attributed to dense smoke, intense heat and flames. After 727 training manuals were modified and pilots were reoriented to the flying characteristics of the aircraft the problem was corrected. Bill Linderman, 45, champion rodeo cowboy killed.
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