35 years ago this week, the crew operating a routine transcontinental US passenger service faced a dramatic, unprecedented situation. A violent and destructive engine failure on the aircraft, one of United Airlines’ McDonnell Douglas DC-10s, caused the loss of all standard flight controls through the fracture of all three hydraulic systems on the aircraft.
Unable to turn, climb, or descend the aircraft using conventional flight control inputs and effectively left to fly an unflyable airplane, the crew were forced to rely on engine power alone to find and reach a suitable airfield and attempt a landing. With 296 passengers and crew onboard that day, the stakes could not have been higher.
And yet, with professional calmness and supreme skill, working as a team in the most desperate of situations, the crew pulled off the impossible and landed the aircraft. While fatalities resulted, the majority of those onboard survived. This is the remarkable story of United Airlines Flight 232 – the miracle of Sioux City.
Background to Flight 232
On July 19, 1989, a United Airlines DC-10 was tasked with operating flight number UA232 on a routine scheduled passenger service from Denver-Stapleton International Airport (DEN) to Chicago-O’Hare Airport (ORD), continuing on to…
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