On this day, July 19, 1989, United Airlines Flight 232 crash-landed in Sioux City, Iowa.

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United Airlines Flight 232


N1819U, the aircraft involved in the accident, pictured in O'Hare International Airport in August 1984

Accident
Date: July 19, 1989
Summary: Crash-landed following uncontained engine failure and loss of hydraulics
Site: Sioux Gateway Airport; Sioux City, Iowa, United States
Coordinates: 42°24'29"N 96°23'02"W

Aircraft
Aircraft type: McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10
Operator: United Airlines
IATA flight No.: UA232
ICAO flight No.: UAL232
Call sign: UNITED 232 HEAVY
Registration: N1819U
Flight origin: Stapleton International Airport, Denver, Colorado
Stopover: O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois
Destination: Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Occupants: 296
Passengers: 285
Crew: 11
Fatalities: 112 (111 initially)
Injuries: 171
Survivors: 184 (185 initially)

United Airlines Flight 232 was a regularly scheduled United Airlines flight from Stapleton International Airport in Denver to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, continuing to Philadelphia International Airport. On July 19, 1989, the DC-10 (registered as N1819U) serving the flight crash-landed at Sioux City, Iowa, after suffering a catastrophic failure of its tail-mounted engine due to an unnoticed manufacturing defect in the engine's fan disk, which led to the loss of many flight controls. Of the 296 passengers and crew on board, 112 died during the accident, while 184 people survived. It is also the deadliest single-aircraft accident in the history of United Airlines.

Despite the deaths, the accident is considered a prime example of successful crew resource management because of the large number of survivors and the manner in which the flight crew handled the emergency and landed the airplane without conventional control.

It is known as "The Impossible Landing" and is considered the most impressive landing ever conducted in the history of aviation.

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Wed Jul 19, 2023: On this day, July 19, 1989, United Airlines Flight 232 crash-landed in Sioux City, Iowa.

Tue Jul 19, 2022: On this day, July 19, 1989, United Airlines Flight 232 crash-landed in Sioux City, Iowa.

[twodogsbarking]

1. Wow. Tragic.

[rickford66]

2. This scenario was immediately added to the simulators I worked on.

With amazing skill and a little bit of luck this crew saved lives. From what I remember, either a pilot or flight engineer was taking a jump flight and was able to help control the aircraft with the throttles.

[rurallib]

3. And on the very next day rurallib gets on the same type of

plane for a business trip