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.