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For some unknown reason, the Dept. of Transportation website ( http://specialcollection.dotlibrary.dot.gov/ ) that holds a collection of historical CAB accident reports is missing this important, yet strangely forgotten, incident. I'm surprised there was no wikipedia article for this mid-air collision until this week, and even more surprised when I found out the CAB report isn't available where it should be, even though non-notable 1958 aviation incidents have downloadable reports at the DoT site. If anyone happens to find the CAB report online somewhere, please post the link in the article. Thank you, -- Itsfullofstars ( talk) 21:09, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
The CAB report can be found as part of a compendium of multiple reports. Here's a Google Books link, including the page offset. I'll leave it to a Wikipedia expert to fit it into the article. https://books.google.com/books?id=rXxMLAbOpwUC&pg=RA15-PA1 Doug Pardee ( talk) 20:46, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
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Could anyone whos English is the first language check the section "Collision" please? I can see it's a bit grama mess and errors with "a/the/an". If noone here is a native English speaker, I'd ask someone here to review this section gramaticaly. Michalpro ( talk) 00:19, 3 January 2010 (UTC) michalpro
I fell like those three: at too low an altitude to survive /.../ a hilly, uninhabited area of desert /.../ it was determined to be the drag parachute that is meant to be deployed
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at (a) too low altitude to survive /.../ a hilly, uninhabited area of the desert /.../ it was determined to be a drag parachute that is meant to be deployed Michalpro ( talk) 18:33, 3 January 2010 (UTC)michalpro
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For no good reason that I can see, the article alternates between the British term "windscreen" (which occurs four times) and the American term "windshield" (which occurs twice). A choice should surely be made, depending on which form of English the rest of the article is in. 188.230.248.85 ( talk) 12:41, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
Wasn’t there a film made about this in the 60s? I vaguely remember seeing it when I was a kid. What stuck in my mind was a discussion about whether to go up or down when faced with an imminent collision (the answer was to go up, which meant you’d probably survive, though the other guy wouldn’t; it foreshadowed the end, when the same pilot flew down when he realized the other plane was an airliner). Swanny18 ( talk) 12:42, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
Just a note to say I'm working on getting various broken web URLs fixed. Over time they've suffered from link rot. Will use Internet Archive when applicable. − Itsfullofstars ( talk) 18:25, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
Hello, I'm the wikipedian who created this article, and over the years have been building it to the point where I'm responsible for over 90% of the content, based on the page stats. Some time ago I noticed the lot containing the main crash site where the airliner fuselage impacted was for sale, using this website ( https://www.redfin.com/NV/Las-Vegas/4765-W-Rush-Ave-89141/home/166562752 ). I had hoped the crash location would eventually be protected and a memorial or historical marker would be installed, but I just checked the location via the web (I live about 9 hours drive away, so checking in person will have to wait until my next Vegas vacation) and it looks like a self-storage business has paved over the site.
The Google Maps satellite view as I'm writing this on June 9 2021 is out-of-date, and still shows it as a patch of untouched desert, but the Acme mapper is more current and shows construction under way, while Yelp shows a completed business on the site. Since this is original research (I assume), I can't add this information to the main article.— Itsfullofstars ( talk) 00:07, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
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U.S. Air Force
F-100 Super Sabre, with no survivors, is the deadliest
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Las Vegas? | ||||||||||
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For some unknown reason, the Dept. of Transportation website ( http://specialcollection.dotlibrary.dot.gov/ ) that holds a collection of historical CAB accident reports is missing this important, yet strangely forgotten, incident. I'm surprised there was no wikipedia article for this mid-air collision until this week, and even more surprised when I found out the CAB report isn't available where it should be, even though non-notable 1958 aviation incidents have downloadable reports at the DoT site. If anyone happens to find the CAB report online somewhere, please post the link in the article. Thank you, -- Itsfullofstars ( talk) 21:09, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
The CAB report can be found as part of a compendium of multiple reports. Here's a Google Books link, including the page offset. I'll leave it to a Wikipedia expert to fit it into the article. https://books.google.com/books?id=rXxMLAbOpwUC&pg=RA15-PA1 Doug Pardee ( talk) 20:46, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
Reviewer: ---
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48
72 22:44, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
Comments:
I am placing the article on hold. --- Dough 48 72 22:44, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
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Could anyone whos English is the first language check the section "Collision" please? I can see it's a bit grama mess and errors with "a/the/an". If noone here is a native English speaker, I'd ask someone here to review this section gramaticaly. Michalpro ( talk) 00:19, 3 January 2010 (UTC) michalpro
I fell like those three: at too low an altitude to survive /.../ a hilly, uninhabited area of desert /.../ it was determined to be the drag parachute that is meant to be deployed
should be:
at (a) too low altitude to survive /.../ a hilly, uninhabited area of the desert /.../ it was determined to be a drag parachute that is meant to be deployed Michalpro ( talk) 18:33, 3 January 2010 (UTC)michalpro
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For no good reason that I can see, the article alternates between the British term "windscreen" (which occurs four times) and the American term "windshield" (which occurs twice). A choice should surely be made, depending on which form of English the rest of the article is in. 188.230.248.85 ( talk) 12:41, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
Wasn’t there a film made about this in the 60s? I vaguely remember seeing it when I was a kid. What stuck in my mind was a discussion about whether to go up or down when faced with an imminent collision (the answer was to go up, which meant you’d probably survive, though the other guy wouldn’t; it foreshadowed the end, when the same pilot flew down when he realized the other plane was an airliner). Swanny18 ( talk) 12:42, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
Just a note to say I'm working on getting various broken web URLs fixed. Over time they've suffered from link rot. Will use Internet Archive when applicable. − Itsfullofstars ( talk) 18:25, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
Hello, I'm the wikipedian who created this article, and over the years have been building it to the point where I'm responsible for over 90% of the content, based on the page stats. Some time ago I noticed the lot containing the main crash site where the airliner fuselage impacted was for sale, using this website ( https://www.redfin.com/NV/Las-Vegas/4765-W-Rush-Ave-89141/home/166562752 ). I had hoped the crash location would eventually be protected and a memorial or historical marker would be installed, but I just checked the location via the web (I live about 9 hours drive away, so checking in person will have to wait until my next Vegas vacation) and it looks like a self-storage business has paved over the site.
The Google Maps satellite view as I'm writing this on June 9 2021 is out-of-date, and still shows it as a patch of untouched desert, but the Acme mapper is more current and shows construction under way, while Yelp shows a completed business on the site. Since this is original research (I assume), I can't add this information to the main article.— Itsfullofstars ( talk) 00:07, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
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