(The same thing had happened in 1970 to the Grumman F-14 Tomcat prototype on its second flight-the two test pilots ejected on short final-but never to an airliner.) Though 111 people died, 185 survived because the airplane’s flight crew, with the help of a United training captain who happened to be deadheading that day, figured out how to barely control the airplane with asymmetric thrust, despite the fact that its flight controls had been rendered useless by an unprecedented triple-system hydraulic failure. Twenty-five years ago, a United Airlines DC-10 crashed in a cartwheeling fireball in the most spectacular way possible: right in front of a TV news camera at Sioux City, Iowa. Book Review: Flight 232- A Story of Disaster and Survival Closeįlight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survivalīy Laurence Gonzales, W.W.
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