page_title: West Coast Airlines Flight 956
hierarchical_section_title: West Coast Airlines Flight 956
caption_attribution_description: English: An image of a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 belonging to the now defunct American airline West Coast Airlines. For the article on West Coast Airlines Flight 956.
context_page_description: West Coast Airlines Flight 956 was a scheduled commercial flight which crashed on October 1, 1966, approximately 5.5 miles south of Wemme, Oregon, United States. Thirteen passengers and five crew members were aboard, and there were no survivors. The aircraft was destroyed by the impact and subsequent fire. The probable cause of the accident was "the descent of the aircraft below its clearance limit and below that of surrounding obstructing terrain, but the Board was unable to determine the cause of such descent." This accident was the first loss of a Douglas DC-9.
context_section_description: West Coast Airlines Flight 956 was a scheduled commercial flight which crashed on October 1, 1966, approximately 5.5 miles (8.9 km) south of Wemme, Oregon, United States. Thirteen passengers and five crew members were aboard, and there were no survivors. The aircraft was destroyed by the impact and subsequent fire. The probable cause of the accident was "the descent of the aircraft below its clearance limit and below that of surrounding obstructing terrain, but the Board was unable to determine the cause of such descent." This accident was the first loss of a Douglas DC-9.
caption: N9102, one of the accident aircraft's sister aircraft, seen at Eugene, Oregon in 1966
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