West Coast Airlines Flight 956 /

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. On October 1, 1966, a Douglas DC-9 registered as N9101 operated as Flight 941 from Seattle, Washington to San Francisco, California with intermediate stops in Portland and Eugene. After approximately one hour on the ground, the aircraft and crew became Flight 956, which reversed the route and stops of the previous flight. Flight 956 arrived in Eugene at 19:34 and departed for Portland at 19:52. The flight received an Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) clearance via Victor Airway 23 at 12,000 feet (3,700 m) altitude. Under Air Traffic Control radar vector at 20:04:25, Flight 956 received descent instructions from