Originally Posted by
pineridge
From Wikpedia...
"United Airlines Flight 173 was a scheduled flight from John F. ... On December 28, 1978, the aircraft flying this route ran out of fuel while troubleshooting a landing gear problem and crashed in a suburban Portland neighborhood near NE 157th Avenue and East Burnside Street killing 10 people."
I believe that this was a DC8. It was dumping fuel and ran out on the way back to PDX
Yes it was a DC-8. I do not think they were dumping; PDX was their destination airport, and they simply used up their approx. one hour of reserves while holding.