Oregon’s worst plane crash is also its most mysterious

Published: Feb. 17, 2020, 2 p.m.

West Coast Airlines Flight 956 was a brand-new DC-9; the airline literally bought it on Monday and crashed it on Saturday. It hit a mountain while flying calmly along, 5,000 feet too low. But, no one has been able to figure out why. (Welches, Multnomah County; 1966) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/1712c.oregons-worst-plane-crash-mystery-474.html)