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flight insurance(Redirected from United Airlines Flight 533)United Airlines Flight 553, registration N9031U, City of Lincoln, was a Boeing 737-222 en route from Washington National Airport to Omaha, Nebraska via Chicago Midway Airport on December 8, 1972. After the crew was told to go around and abort their first landing attempt on runway 31L, the aircraft struck trees and then roofs along West 71st Street before crashing into a home in the 3700 block of West 70th Place. A total of 45 people were killed in the accident, 43 of them on the plane. The 3 man flight crew was killed, but the 3 flight attendants survived. The pilots' union contract at the time compelled United Airlines to have three licensed pilots onboard, even though Boeing had designed the 737 to be flown by a crew of 2, instead of 3. The only person to survive in the forward part of the plane ahead of the wing was the First Class flight attendant. Find affordable Among the passengers killed were Illinois Congressman George W. Collins and Watergate suspect E. Howard Hunt's wife, Dorothy Hunt. Also killed was Michele Clark, a correspondent for CBS News. Travel Insurance estimates are fast and easy using our real-time QuikQuote Travel Insurance can protect non-refundable Cruise, Flight, Tour costs. Clark was one of the first female African-American network correspondents. InvestigationThe accident was, at the time, one of the most investigated airplane crashes in history. Mrs. Hunt's purse contained $10,585 in cash and she had purchased flight insurance for $250,000 prior to boarding the flight. Conspiracy theorists believed the plane was targeted by government agencies. The Federal Bureau of Investigation assisted the National Transportation Safety Board in its investigation when claims the flight was sabotaged surfaced. Travel Cruise & Flight Insurance reimburses non-refundable Travel Deposits |