On the 19th of July 1989 a United Airlines DC10 suffered a catastrophic ... on the aircraft rendering completely without normal flight controls. What followed after that is one of the biggest ...

i National Transportation Safety Board, “Aircraft Accident Report — United Airlines Flight 232, McDonnel Douglas DC-10-10, Sioux Gateway Airport, Sioux City, Iowa, July 19, 1989.” Report No.

Experts said it could’ve been much worse. United Airlines Flight 232, the deadliest plane crash in the airline’s history, took off from Denver on July 19, 1989, heading for Chicago.

United flight 232 out of Denver was on its way to Chicago this afternoon, *** direct flight with no stops in Iowa. But shortly after 330 the pilot radioed in that the plane had problems ...

SIOUX CITY, Iowa -- Two teams working independently of each other but with the same goal ensured that the story of United Airlines Flight 232 included happy endings as well as tragedy.