United Airlines Flight 232 · Sioux Gateway Airport
On July 19, 1989, United Airlines Flight 232 (Sioux Gateway Airport). 111 people died.
- Date
- July 19, 1989
- Place
- Sioux Gateway Airport
- Operator
- United Airlines
- Killed
- 111
- Injured
- 172
- Position
- 42.408°N, 96.384°W
- Wikidata ID
- Q580343
From Wikipedia
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 in Philadelphia, United States. On July 19, 1989, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 serving the flight crash-landed at Sioux Gateway Airport in 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 resulted in the loss of all flight controls. Of the 296 passengers and crew on board, 112 died, while 184 people survived. Thirteen passengers were uninjured.
Despite the fatalities, the accident is considered a good example of successful crew resource management, still a relatively new concept at the time. Contributing to the outcome was the crew's decision to recruit the assistance of a company check pilot, on board as a passenger, to assist controlling the aircraft and troubleshooting of the problem the crew was facing.
Text from Wikipedia, “United Airlines Flight 232”, CC BY-SA 4.0; shortened to the introduction. Authors.
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