A United Airlines Douglas DC-8F-54, similar to the one involved.
Accident
Date
December 18, 1977 1:38 a.m. MST
Summary
Controlled flight into terrain, ATC error, pilot error
Site
Davis County, Utah, U.S. (near Fruit Heights) 41°01′41″N111°52′30″W / 41.028°N 111.875°W / 41.028; -111.875
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Douglas DC-8F-54
Operator
United Airlines
Call sign
UNITED 2860
Registration
N8047U
Flight origin
San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, California, U.S.
Stopover
Salt Lake City International Airport, Salt Lake City, Utah
Destination
O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois
Occupants
3
Passengers
0
Crew
3
Fatalities
3
Survivors
0
San Francisco
Salt Lake City
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Locations in the western United States
United Airlines Flight 2860 was a scheduled domestic cargo flight in the United States from San Francisco, California, to Chicago, Illinois, with an intermediate stop added at Salt Lake City, Utah. On December 18, 1977, operated by one of the airline's Douglas DC-8 Jet Traders, registration N8047U,[1] the flight was in a holding pattern in Utah and crashed into a mountain in the Wasatch Range near Fruit Heights. All three crew members, the only occupants of the plane, were killed in the accident.[2][3][4][5][6]
^"FAA Registry (N8047U)". Federal Aviation Administration.
^"Mail airplane crashes in Utah". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. December 19, 1977. p. 1.
^Wade, Pam (December 19, 1977). "Crash probers sort DC-8 debris". Deseret News. (Salt Lake City, Utah). p. A1.
^"Plane slams into canyon, three killed". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). UPI. December 19, 1977. p. 7A.
^"Crash victims recovered". Deseret News. (Salt Lake City, Utah). December 20, 1977. p. B1.
^White, Gordon Eliot (July 28, 1978). "Blame for crash shared". Deseret News. (Salt Lake City, Utah). p. B1.
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