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December 18, 2009	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on November 11, 2009.

The text of the entry was: Did you know

... that the 1958 mid-air collision of United Airlines Flight 736 and a U.S. Air Force F-100 Super Sabre, with no survivors, is the deadliest crash in the history of Las Vegas?

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Looking for official CAB report

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)[reply]

GA Review

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Reviewer: ---Dough 48 72 22:44, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comments:

"the United airliner" sounds colliqual. This is in multiple places.
Are the notes in the article supported by references?
"approach to Nellis" also sounds colliqual.
"Decatur Blvd.": "Blvd." needs to be spelled out.
Citation needed for the list of the two nearby crash sites.
The bulleted list of crash sites should be turned into prose.
Are there any picutres of the crash that can be added to the article?

I am placing the article on hold. ---Dough 48 72 22:44, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for taking the time to review the article.

Fixed.
Three of the four notes already had references. It was a little bit tricky to get the imbedded references to work within a note. Having to nest using the #tag template isn't very intuitive. I've commented out the uncited note because I now believe it's no longer needed. I only needed it early on when I was just starting out with the article, and I had many fewer sources to work with. Now that I've found other authoritative sources that by sheer numbers overrule the couple of websites that have incorrect last names for two of the crew members, I don't think it's necessary to explicitly tell the reader which last names are correct for two of the crew.
Fixed.
Fixed.
Fixed.
Fixed.
I've been looking for photographs extensively. I found generally poor quality photos of the crash site but it appears they are still under copyright to various agencies like AP. I've also tried to find a free photo of a United Airlines DC-7 without luck, so far. One possible photo I might be able to use is alleged to be 'Copyright Civil Aeronautics Board', but since that was a U.S. Government agency I suspect it's actually public domain. The photo is already mentioned in the article, but only as an external link, here. --Itsfullofstars (talk) 03:06, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I will pass the article. ---Dough 48 72 03:08, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. An update: I sent an email to the Aviation Safety Network and they changed the copyright assertion to public domain for the photo I mentioned above. It's now in the infobox. I'm still looking for a free image of a United Airlines DC-7, preferably in flight, to complement the photo of the F-100F. I still haven't found a copy of the official accident report for this crash, either. I guess I'll have to make do with the sources I I've already found. --Itsfullofstars (talk) 04:36, 25 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"Collision" section

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[reply]

Michalpro, I created and wrote the article. I don't understand where the 'grama mess' is that seems to be bothering you. English is my native language. --Itsfullofstars (talk) 09:40, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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[reply]

Thanks for the feedback. Although the changes are subtle and I've gone ahead and modified two sentences, but "at too low an altitude" is already proper English. Google shows 62,900 hits for the exact phrase "at too low an altitude" but only 19 hits for "at a too low altitude", so I'm leaving that sentence as-is. --Itsfullofstars (talk) 21:14, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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windscreen/windshield

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)[reply]

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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.[[Special:Contributions/188.230.248.85|188.230.248.85]] ([[User talk:188.230.248.85|talk]]) 12:41, 26 December 2016 (UTC)