Notable Accidents
- West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashed on October 1, 1966 with eighteen fatalities and no survivors 5.5 miles (8.9 km) south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marked the first loss of a Douglas DC-9.
- West Coast Airlines Flight 720 crashed on March 10, 1967 with four fatalities and no survivors near Klamath Falls, Oregon. The Fairchild F-27 was bound for Medford, Oregon from Klamath falls, and crashed due to ice accumulation on the aircraft.
Read more about this topic: West Coast Airlines
Famous quotes containing the words notable and/or accidents:
“a notable prince that was called King John;
And he ruled England with main and with might,
For he did great wrong, and maintained little right.”
—Unknown. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury (l. 2–4)
“The day-laborer is reckoned as standing at the foot of the social scale, yet he is saturated with the laws of the world. His measures are the hours; morning and night, solstice and equinox, geometry, astronomy, and all the lovely accidents of nature play through his mind.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)