The Crash of United 232 | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror
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- "On the 19th of July, 1989, United Airlines Flight 232 took to the skies on what was to be a routine trip from Denver’s Stapleton International Airport to Philadelphia International Airport, with a stop on the way at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago..."
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:43 - Background
02:45 - The Crash of United 232
07:45 - The Aftermath
MUSIC:
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory
SOURCES:
► National Transportation Safety Board Accident Report, published by the NTSB, November 1990. Link: www.ntsb.gov/investigations/a...
► "Eyewitness Report: United Flight 232" by Captain Al Haynes, published by airdisaster.com. Available via: web.archive.org/web/201504150...
► "Hero Pilot In 1989 United Crash Dies" by Howard Berkes, published by NPR, May 2012. Link: www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...
► United 232 CVR Audio, published by airdisaster.com. Available via: web.archive.org/web/201503180...
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In this video I mention Japan Airlines Flight 123 - a devastating plane crash that inspired Denny Fitch to undertake the training which helped him (and many others) survive this disaster. Here's a video I made all about it: th-cam.com/video/1VvKQ1MvmmI/w-d-xo.html
The instructor who happened to be on the plane was alleged to have practiced the scenario of flight 123 hundreds and hundreds of times on the simulator, almost to the point of obsession. He thought a plane could be relatively controlled and ultimately landed using the engines to steer. His success in the simulator is debated as some claim he crashed far more often than he landed. What's not debatable is the one time it mattered, he was on the plane and saved many many lives.
It makes sense that he’d crashed in the simulator a lot, though?
”let’s try this” BOOM.
”okay, not good, let’s tweak it” BOOM
”let’s try yet another thing”...
Etc.
And then he’d manage to land more often than he crashed, because he had experienced a lot of What Not To Do?
@@Cecily-Pimprenelle that's what I think too. No clue why others wouldn't come to similar conclusions
From what I heard, there were very few who tried in the simulator managed to keep JAL123 in the air for as long as the actual pilots did. Ending up in a mountainous area was the downfall of JAL123, those pilots just ran out of luck.
Who cares if he crashed more than he succeeded? As you've pointed out, he crashed when it mattered, but still managed to save many lives! People are damn lucky he obsessed over it!! I think it's the mark of a good flight instructor to want to solve a problem like this one!
If this was a possible scenario (they knew it was because of the Japanese flight) why weren't all pilots trained in it? And why didn't they research what caused the Japanese crash?
In one of his speeches, the captain talked about how important luck had been in that flight. It's been a few years but, from memory, the combined flight hours of the crew was huge (even if not all on the DC10), there was a National Guard training camp nearby so they could all be brought on scene before the crash, there was some kind of medical convention nearby so they were all on scene before the crash, and it happened near the standard hospital shift change so they held back the staff going off duty and effectively had double the usual staff at the local hospitals. He came across as a very genuine, humble man.
You can't count on luck, but luck counts
One of the most if not the most important things about this is that it was a VFR day, meaning that they didn't have to descend through clouds and set up an IFR approach landing, which would have been 100% impossible. So a clear sky was one of the heroes that day...
Behavior of a bygone generation.
@@mikey_bb "Skills are essential. Luck is INDISPENSABLE!" I don't know who said it originally, but whether or not you can count on it, you GOTTA have every drop you can get your hooks into... ;o)
And the local hospital was undergoing a shift change.
Captain Haynes returned to the cockpit after the accident before retiring in 1991. He passed away in 2019 at the age of 87. Captain Fitch (arguably the greatest hero of the day) resumed flying about 18 months after the accident and retired in the late 1990s or early 2000s (couldn't find a good source). He died at the age of 69 in 2012 after a battle with brain cancer. Blue skies and tail winds, gentlemen.
May they rest in the Heavens. Thank you for sharing
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@Super Nostalgia pity he's not so good with hydraulics
@@morryclark7199Are u Jewish?
Did captain Haynes have a daughter called Olivia Haynes
You overlooked an important fact: The Iowa National Guard's 185th Tactical Fighter Squadron. Without hesitation, the nearly 300 Guardsman that were on duty, rushed to the disaster. For the members of the Air Guard, their contribution did not end once the survivors had been rescued. The members of the unit worked for several weeks after the accident, helping recover the remains of the deceased, collecting their belongings, and assisting in cleaning up debris.
Thank you for sharing 🙏
It's a ten minute video dude and you want him giving shout outs to all the people that cleaned the mess up? Settle down
@@bradsanders407 dude they are just mentioning a fact that got left out of the video why are you being so aggressive that “mess” was the bodies of innocent people and their lives so let them comment goddamn 💀
@@Imaslutforpuns The word "overlooked" was not perhaps the best. These videos are obviously carefully researched, but the information has to be condensed and edited. It's easy enough to mention additional facts in the comments without being accusatory about it.
@@folioio I get that lol the “settle down” part was completely out of pocket though 💀op was just trying to give some more info
I think the most sad part of this is the captain said in interviews, that despite the stricken condition of the aircraft, every day he still wishes he could go back and have one more shot at that landing. He’s convinced he could have landed that plane safely and it still haunts him that he couldn’t.
He was a good, humble man!!!
From what I’ve read of the crash, when he was in hospital he asked how many people had survived, and when he learnt of the feaths, he was absolutely heartbroken and believed he’d failed in his job as a pilot to keep people safe.
Survivor's guilt. I just hope he had that beer.
@@eliz_scubavn I've seen interviews with Denny Fitch and his wife had to tell him that some died. He was so devastated he said he cried for 2 days.
God bless Captain Hynes and the crew. An amazing crew. I know the Captain passed away recently.
I wont lie, aviation safety is an interest of mine and this crash is seriously one of the most fascinating to me. Like... as soon as the hydralics went, everyone on board could basically be considered dead. Every second their hearts kept beating after that point was due to brutal negotiation from the pilots against gravity and death itself. Just... holy shit.
i’ve made a couple other replies and even a comment about it, but since you seem to be a nerd about it like me: while the current solution of isolating the damaged part of the hydraulics line to leave fluid for the functional remaining parts and improving redundancy on modern aircraft, is the most sensible solution, have you ever read about NASA Dryden Flight Research Centre’s Propulsion Controlled Aircraft? really cool research aircraft project based on accidents like this and JAL123 that, while not as easy, inexpensive, and logical as the modern solutions for hydraulic line damage and therefore unimplemented, is REALLY cool. al haynes even got to fly the sim NASA made!
@Experiment IV I haven't! That sounds fascinating! I bet they got some really fun data from that one, I'll have to look it up when I'm not abt to go to bed lol
You should check out Macarthur Job's Air Disaster book series if you haven't already. Quick read and he does a good job explaining a variety of crashes and their causes.
And a situation like this is why they tell pilots did never stop flying the plane. Don’t give up.
Because sometimes it matters up to the last second.
@@neilkurzman4907 Yup, fly it as far into the crash as possible. Advice from the 1920s that's still valid today.
One thing to note is that for those children that were on the flight because of the discount, several infants died because they were forced to the ground and protected with blankets, which barely helped.
The flight attendant of the flight: Jan Brown, has been campaigning for years to ban this procedure on flights but to no avail.
Huh? They just threw infants on the ground? How many infants could there have possibly been?
@@bradsanders407 at the time, the standard procedure in a crash situation was that if a child didn’t have their own seat, they were to be placed on the floor and held by their parent/guardian. The problem was that in a crash it could be difficult if not impossible to hold on to them at the moment of impact.
Surviving flight attendants would indeed campaign against lap children, demanding that even infants have a paid seat.
I remember watching an episode about this crash and the most heartbreaking thing about this that the flight attendant recounted one of the surviving mothers that she had told to put her baby on the floor had come up to her and just said to her in a quiet heartbreaking voice “you told me to put my baby on the floor…” or something along those lines. The whole incident is heartbreaking
There were actually only four lap children on this flight, and, contrary to popular belief, only one of them died. Most of the kids on the flight had their own seat.
The reason why the FAA only recommends infants getting their own seat and doesn't mandate it is because of internal calculations, and those revolve around the idea that families that can't afford that one extra seat will instead drive to their destination, which is much more dangerous.
Honestly given the total loss of hydraulics and the ridiculous conditions those pilots were faced with the fact that ANYBODY walked away from this is a blessing the flying done by this captain his composure and ability to improvise and fly as much as they did is absolutely incredible 💀
The greatest show of airmanship in the history of commercial aviation by Captain Haynes and crew. No one should have survived a total loss of hydraulics, United Airlines Maintenance did not have any procedure to deal with a complete loss of hydraulics because it wasn’t even thought possible.
@@donnix1192 And it was a miracle that Denny Fitch just happened to be on that flight.
Absolutely, just watch the footage of the crash landing without knowledge of the aftermath and your first thought is "nobody can survive THAT".
lol why did u put a skull emoji after that you know it means that something is so funny that u died from laughter.
D@@allisonmarlow184 It was, to have a veteran Captain like Haynes with thousands of hours in the DC10 and over 30 years at United, FO Records and FE Dvorak had a lot of experience flying made it a stellar crew. Then you happen to have Captain and Check Airman Fitch, a guy considered to be one of the most knowledgeable pilots of the DC10 in the world was definitely a miracle. There is a reason no pilots ever came close to successfully completing the flight simulation of United 232, this particular flight crew pulled off the greatest airmanship in the history of commercial aviation.
Hearing about hydraulics problems on any crash story always makes me think about the story my mother told me about how back in the '70s, she was on a flight that was taxiing down the runway in preparation for takeoff but was diverted at the last second because the plane behind them had noticed a major leak in their plane. It was the hydraulic fluid, and they had to be transferred to a different plane.
Thank God the other pilots noticed the leak and reported it before your mom's plane took off
@@pegallen6983 Exactly! She's never exactly been fond of flying ever since and I don't blame her.
Damn, the people on that other plane are heroes
@@kriscynical I don't blame her either. Nope I'd keep my feet firmly on the ground after that as well
Amazing timing and luck from the rear aircraft. Yeah, can't blame your moms either!
For those of you who haven't looked into this in detail, it's WORTH IT. It's an absolutely fascinating story about how random chance came together to make everything that happened possible.
It really is. Smithsonian Channel's Mayday/Air Disasters series covered it as well and it's an amazing and fascinating story indeed.
232 is the most mind-blowing story in the history of aviation disasters to me. sure, the miracle on the hudson is pretty up there, but 232 is special. it just seems so utterly unsurvivable. gliding a jet (and even ditching, sometimes) have seemingly more successful outcomes than the situation 232 was in. at least in a no engine or fuel exhaustion situation, you probably have all your controls (Gimli Glider is definitely up there with Craziest Incidents In Aviation Ever). did you know NASA kitted out an MD-11 to test fully propulsion-controlled aircraft because of accidents like JAL123 and UAL232? check out NASA’s old PCA (propulsion-controlled aircraft) project at their Dryden Flight Research Centre. I think they let Al Haynes test the simulator out once, and that’s how i’d learned about it. you might find it interesting.
@@SolaScientia mayday/air crash investigation is a totally different program from the Smithsonian show you are referring to... The only reason I say anything is because Mayday is the superior show.
@thefactorypilot145 Mentour Pilot covers this crash and his show is far superior to all the above.
@@BobbyGeneric145 Ah, I thought Mayday was the other name for Air Disasters when it was aired in other countries.
Captain Haynes' unforgettable reply to his landing clearance: "You want to be particular and make it a runway, huh?"
I remember that quote 😂
The passenger Jerry Schemmel who went back into the fuselage to save the baby is well known in the Denver area as the radio commentator for the Colorado Rockies baseball team
He was also the radio voice of the Denver Nuggets as well for almost 20 years.
it is amazing that the pilots managed to get the plane to a runway before crashing and only around 110 people died, the crew worked well together with the help of Dennis Fitch who was onboard, great airmen ship
At least put up spoiler alert first, you are the worst kind of person.
Only?
@@justgranny9601 up to that point no one had ever survived full lost flight controls at altitude. It was a death sentence. And then along came this crew who managed to save over half the souls aboard. Pretty impressive.
@@justgranny9601
You know exactly what they mean. Out of 296 people it's a miracle ANYONE survived let alone 184 people in such a horrific crash.
@@the_real_ch3 I fully agree with you but to be correct the prequel to Fitch even having the knowledge to fly this plane was 4 people surviving a full loss of flight control surfaces before then. (more if they had actually sent a rescue team)
It is still an incredible difference to have 520 deaths and 4 survivors vs 112 deaths and 184 survivors.
Imagine how terrifying it is to be on a plane completely helpless knowing full well you cant do anything about the imminent crash
Not an issue, that's when you kick a door and rip a cord.
Isn’t that EVERY plane trip?
Prolly about as frightening as being 14 and eating a bunch of mushrooms then taking a 5 hour plane trip. Not the best idea I ever had that’s for sure.
Probably the feeling behind people with phobia of flying.
My first flight at age 16 was almost crashed right after takeoff when we went up into storm clouds. I remember when the pilot came on and said to brace we dropped over 600 feet all of a sudden, then the pilot got control before we got too close to the ground..... A few minutes after we got to a stable altitude the flight attendants went around to check on people and there were a few tiny injuries and people having panic attacks. Then when the lady came up to us i went to put my hand up to signal i was ok but ...I had broken the hand rail from the seat and i didn't even realize i was still holding onto it in a death grip
I've seen the actual video of this crash. You literally can't imagine anyone surviving it and yet many did.
Reportedly, the captain of UA232 was in his hospital room and video footage of the crash appeared on the news. He watched it and asked "what plane was that? No one survived that crash." Then they told him it was footage of his crash.
The flight crew were trapped in the crushed remains of the cockpit. Which wasn’t investigated immediately, because it didn’t look big enough for people to be in apparently one of them manage to get their hand through a hole, and wave a handkerchief and attracted one of the rescuers.
@@neilkurzman4907 - Fitch took about a year to return to work. The others returned to work in 3-4 months.
I was surprised not to see the footage 🤔
@@DukeRaul This channel has had several videos demonetized by TH-cam. Not worth taking the chance since the crash video is readily available with a simple search
The crew's response, plus the luck of having Fitch on board, was nothing short of phenomenal. They couldn't prevent the crash, but they minimized the damage to a degree that could not have been expected.
There was so much I wanted to add to this script (I wrote it), but had to cut down due to brevity. Seems the comments have filled us all in.
@@MilesL.auto-train4013Wait, are you Fascinating Horror’s back up account or what?
The guy who jumped back into the burning airplane to save an 11 month old baby has more courage in his one finger than most of us have in our whole body.
well what are you supposed to do? let a baby burn to death? Not much room for courage to enter the equation
@@idklol4197 I can very confidently say a lot of people would just walk away and "let someone else handle it, it'll be okay"
While the baby burns to death.
@@idklol4197You are living in a fool's world if you are under impression anyone would have sprung back into a blazing aircraft to save an infant knowing very well they are putting their own life in peril. It's not everyone's cup of tea.
@@TheNewRobotMasterI think would have definitely tried to save it.
@@IronOrchid-HQ Patterns exist buddy, sorry to say
Amazing teamwork to get that plane on the ground with so few deaths. One is one to many but they saved as many as they could. Great job!
They were fifty feet from landing the plane when the last Phugoid Oscillation hit, causing the right wing to dip and the number three engine nacelle to catch leading to the flip and cartwheel. The flight crew was so damn close to landing the plane with far fewer casualties.
With that said, all previous incidents before had a survivability of ZERO.
As terrifying as this crash was, the crew did an absolutely phenomenal job flying the plane! It was incredible that over half the passengers made it out alive. Dennis Fitch, Al Haynes, Bill Records, and Dudley Dvorak are all heroes.
Yeah, I think the video clearly stated that. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Amen to that !!!
I had a professor in college who survived this crash. She was in shock after the crash and got up and walked away with a broken back. People stopped her on the street seeing how terrible she looked and called 911, asking her what happened, and she didn't know. She assumed she must have been in a car accident. She still has lingering effects from her injuries to this day.
Shock is a hell of a drug.
Streets in a cornfield? Passersby on restricted airport property? Calling 911 to an accident scene where every resource was already assembled in advance?
The story you were told is fictional
Interesting points, Andrew.
Any ideas as to what's real, then?
@@drdrew3 You know the person could have walked off the property, and the passerby could be someone there flying general aviation aircraft... the lack of gaps doersn't mean it is outright fiction, just that facts are missing.
@@drdrew3Those cornfields are surrounded by the airport & you guessed it streets.
A couple years after this crash I was flying Denver to Chicago on United. Al Haynes was the pilot and upon landing I waited for everyone to deplane and asked a cabin attendant if I could meet him. This of course was before 9/11, cockpit security doors, etc. She said yes and he and I spoke for a minute or two. He was patient and gracious.
Wow. Awesome.
Can we appreciate that, even with over 1M subs, FH has never shilled a shitty VPN, mobile game or earbuds, I'm sure he's been offered sponsorships, as you see channels with a few 10's of thousand of subs doing them. Maybe it's because to do a sponsorship spot, a youtuber has to break character, something FH has never done, as far as I know, not even for a 1M special. Not that I'd blame anyone for doing sponsorships, everyone has to eat, it's just nice that FH has resisted up to now.
He did do one early on, but yanked it when viewers informed him it was a company with a bad reputation and he never has hD another sponsor.
Also The Goldsboro B-52 Incident, The Story of Jack the Ripper and The Carrington Event, all about two years ago. His sponsorships (albeit very very rare) are also very carefully selected: online history classes, murder mystery games and paranormal investigations (in those three videos respectively) and the information about the sponsor is placed at the very end of the video rather than as a commercial break in the middle. He even narrates it in typical FH-style which is kinda fun. So yes he has done it on a handful of occasions quite some time ago, but even then it was done brilliantly and not for the usual VPN/mobile game/earbuds you see everywhere on TH-cam.
It would be really funny to hear a _Raid: Shadow Legends_ ad in FH style, though.
@@Myrea_Rend Similar to his April Fool videos 😁
@@Myrea_Rend no, no it wouldnt
What's the odds for that a flight instructor who had studied just that type of accident would be on the plane? The rest of the crew's actions was also important, but Fitch seems like the centre piece of the puzzle, tying all the other pieces together, and making it possible for the event to end the way it did.
A similar thing has happened at least one other time - Pan Am Flight 6 in 1956. The captain knew of an incident from the year before where the same type of plane in the same type of situation (This being a water landing) had lost it's tail on hitting the water. So he ordered everyone out of the rear of the plane.
During the landing, the plane's tail did exactly what he expected and broke off. But because of the captain's thinking (Among a pile of other good luck things), every single person walked (Well, swam) away from that incident without serious injury.
@@andon_RT Wow, that sounds amazing.
@@FinnishLapphund It is! The History Guy did a nice video on it: th-cam.com/video/FqRAOvz71B0/w-d-xo.html
100%. Fitch was key.
This story was actually pretty uplifting (pun not intended). The fact that test pilots couldn't recreate the steps to save the plane just goes go show the skill & quick thinking of the crew. I kept thinking if I'd go back in to save people, or just be racked with shock. I hope I never get to find out, but if I am put in that situation, then I pray I'm up to task.
I find this story extremely inspiring despite the obvious tragedy -- like it shows the best of humankind, how people cane come together in a terrible situation and create a bit of a miracle together through hard work, intelligence, experience, and a good attitude. Laurence Gonzales' book was a powerful read about Flight 232 because it filled in more details I hadn't heard from TV shows about it.
The fault was an air bubble the size of a grain of sand that was buried INSIDE the titanium disc and would have been difficult to find unless you knew what you were looking for - not the bubble itself but the super fine crack in the metal. When the fan discs were produced, a cylinder of the metal would be forged and then sliced into a series of coin like discs that were then machined into the shape of the fan disc. At the time the inspection of the slices was done only by eye but after this incident, they used x-rays which could detect such flaws deep inside the metal. They ended up checking other fan discs from the same 'billet' of metal and if memory serves they found another 2 or 3 also with tiny bubbles but as yet no cracks and they were immediately replaced.
your comment should be pinned! I was going to say almost the same thing. This particular 'flaw' was extremely minute and survived 15k flight cycles. So it wasn't exactly obvious nor easy to find. Are the engines ever completely disassembled during maintenance procedures? Including dismantling the engines down to the core and even disc? I doubt it!
Porosity
Voids in cast metal have the annoying characteristic of waiting years until physical/thermal stresses cause failure. GPUs on circuit boards are now surface mounted using something called a ball grid array, a technique where tiny solder balls are placed on a heated board's contacts, the chip laid on top then heated again to "weld" the chip in place. This was a stable method for CPUs whose loads don't vary much during usage; graphics processors do on the other hand cycle rapidly between on and off. In the 90s, lead was the solder ball material of choice but by the early 2000s the EU mandated changing to non-lead solder alloys. What no one realized was that while some lead solder balls had voids in them, lead's highly ductile properties made them able to handle rapid thermal cycling gracefully.
Tin alloys, on the other hand, behave less like metal and more like glass, and a ball with a void would after several months simply crack, breaking the connection between the chip and the board. In 2013, this resulted in Xboxes, PlayStations, HP Lifebook laptops, and nearly all MacBook Pros with discrete graphics failing. It wouldn't be until an industry whitepaper from the solder industry acknowledging this problem surfaced that Apple settled out of court, agreeing to repair out-of-warranty laptops at no cost to the owners (and refunding those they'd charged $600 for board swaps).
It is believed that the manufacturers of these balls now do stringent quality control to handle voids, but repair shops reballing these components still exclusively use lead solder balls to this day.
Postscript: the engineer who invented ball grid array mounting died of old age before the EU mandate, and never had the chance to comment on whether this technique would work as well with non-leaded solders.
When I worked for Standard Oil (Amoco) , we took UA 232 all the time from DEN-ORD. The schedule was just a perfect time to get a little work done in the office before leaving. Our production manager had family that lived in Chicago. Sadly, our production manager, his wife, and their son died on UA 232.
May he and his family continue to rest peacefully
One of my neighbors survived. I think he may have worked for Standard Oil….
United 232 is the plane crash that blows my mind most. great pick, fascinating horror. crew resource management saved lives on what could very well have ended in a 100% unsurvivable plane crash. denny fitch’s presence on that flight and in the cockpit having studied so much about JAL123 and controlling an aircraft with differential thrust is sheer luck, and what luck! this flight had an AMAZING outcome for what should have been a total disaster. “you wanna be particular and make it a runway, huh?” is the craziest radio comm in a mayday situation i’ve ever heard.
it is a miracle that many people survived the crash, still RIP to all those who lost their lives.
This accident also produced one of the more dramatic recorded crash footage where the plane "cartwheeled" on the runway.
Sioux City also had an "emergency mass casualty" protocol installed and training several months beforehand which was put to the test during this incident. This reportedly prompted other jurisdictions to have similar plans put into effect.
Yes I’m surprised he didn’t show the picture! Very famous
I didn't even realise this was the Sioux City crash until the end. It's far more well-known by that title than the flight number. I'm also surprised he didn't mention/show the footage.
I seem to recall it was known for hours that the plane may crash, and that it was being diverted to Sioux City, and that's why there's footage; local news crews descended upon the airport to film a possible crash.
It actually didn't cartwheel. This is a common misconception due to misinterpretation of the video of the crash that showed the flaming right wing tumbling end-over-end and the intact left wing, still attached to the fuselage, rolling up and over as the fuselage flipped over.
@@verynotreally actually thought he misprounced ‘Sioux’ (and I’m not American) unless I’ve been pronouncing it wrong (I assume it’s said like the Indian tribe)
@@xr6lad sue?
I like to view this event as more of a miracle than a horrific tragedy. The pilots avoided the absolute worse case scenario for their conditions, and the fact that they managed to ensure the safety of even half the people aboard is a testament to not just their cooperation, but the lucky timing and aid of all the emergency service folks down in Sioux City.
How is it a miracle that humans put their experience and sensibility together to do what they aim to do and also save lives when luck already wasn’t on their side and God was the one who threw the proverbial wrench into this whole thing? Rationally speaking
@@BallHog25 I have no clue what you're trying to say here, honestly.
One of the nurses that takes care of me at my local VA facility was on the flight with her infant son. They both survived and made full recoveries. She has a an energy and a positive presence that's hard to describe, but she is one of the best nurses I've ever met.
I studied this crash in paramedic school as an example of mass casualty and incident command, and then a few year later had to learn about this crash in flight school as an example of CRM and "unusual procedures".
They made a movie on the mass casualty preparation alone. Richard Thomas played Gary Brown, the then-new director of emergency services who had spent the money and the time to get every on the same sheet of music in case...in case there was a catastrophic plane crash at their little airport. Two years later, later, United 232 could only make right turns and was coming to their airport. He just retired in 2021.
My dad was supposed to be on that flight. His seat was in a part of the plane where no one survived. He changed his travel plans at the last minute, which is why he's still alive today.
No he’s not, he was killed in a jet ski accident at a nudist beach last week…you should contact your family….
@@johneeeemarry34 No way he'd ever go on a jet ski. The nude beach part is believable, though.
The fact that they happened to have one of the few people who knew what to do just happened to be there is amazing.
Absolutely amazing crew...nothing really else to say.
props to the passenger who helped out, right place at the right time
As sad as it was that 112 people lost their lives in this tragedy, it's miraculous that so many survived, due to the heroic action of the crew
The crew saved themselves, too.
In a scenario in which the manufacturer basically deemed the plane un-flyable without hydraulics...
The fact the death total wasn't 100% is a miracle.
Metal fatigue in a component of the #2 Engine resulting in shrapnel shredding all hydraulic lines near the tail...
Absolutely legendary team effort. The fact that no one has ever been able to simulate it says it all....
Almost correct what you mention at 6:35 regarding the final sequence.
The roll didn't come from a sudden wing bank, it came from Fitch noticing the sink rate they had going, and realized it was 3 times the structural capability of the landing gear.
As a result he firewalled the engines in an effort to arrest the sink rate, but not being able to maintain the differentiating thrust when doing that, the wing dropped.
This is his own words from Denny Fitch himself.
That's my mistake; I wrote the script. Thank you for the correction.
@@MilesL.auto-train4013 Fantastic job!!!
@@MilesL.auto-train4013 Not to pile on here, but the rotor disk was titanium, 6Al4V alloy, not steel.
As a new nurse in 1998, I attended a lecture on forensic nursing. The instructor came armed with photos of the bodies from Flight 232. Some were so gruesome that I can still see them in my mind’s eye, 25 years later. I have a strong ability to handle such things, but they still bother me. He also had many photos of the Storm King Mountain 14.
He posted all that stuff on pornhub and was quite rightly thrown off the platform.
Haynes and Fitch are two of my heroes. They saved so many lives with their teamwork and composure.
Watching this channel, I never know if I'm going to end up slightly traumatized for the rest of the day or crying from how moved I am from the ability of people to work together and problem solve in an emergency. Great work.
Always look forward to Tuesday mornings and a good dose of Fascinating Horror and he never disappoints with his videos
Geeze I didn't even catch on that he releases these on Tuesdays. Thanks for the tip!
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Probably one of the most miraculous feats in aviation history. How anyone survived is amazing.
Yes,I know about this disaster. Horrible,just horrible,especialy fact,that there were children among the dead due to the lack of restraints...
To this day you don't have to have a baby in a car seat esque setup and I still think that's a terrible idea. But I'm not a physics master nor a doctor so that's purely one of those "feeling" type scenarios.
A flight attendant on 232 who survived has been campaigning to require seats with appropriate restraints for children ever since.
The fact so many survived the flight just shows why its so important to have experienced crew who can stay calm!
I was flying from Norfolk to Newark for work the day of this accident. I remember sitting in the airport waiting for our ride to the hotel and seeing the news. I’ll never forget it.
Pretty impressive feat actually. More than half the people on board survived. Any other crew combination would have more than likely plowed into the ground killing all. Also if I remember right there was Air National Guard training taking place at that airport that also was a factor. I'm going off the memory of some documentary from Discovery Channel or something. No matter, the pact that they saved more than half by their actions is incredible.
Oh one little thing. Engine fan disks on the DC-10 are made of titanium not steel. The one that broke had a defect from the manufacturing process because of impurities in the titanium leading to the fatigue crack. Still an excellent short documentary once again. Thanks dor the work you put into researching your content to make these to share.
We have lived in Des Moines since 1986. We set out to drive to South Dakota just days after the crash and went past that airport on I-29. You could still see the wreckage from the Interstate, and it just seemed incredible that anyone walked away from that crash. Amazing that the crew did what they did and saved so many lives that day!
I'm in absolute awe of how amazingly the captain, crew and Mr Fitch handled that situation. With so many terrible crashes where pilot error and mishandling instantly doomed everyone, its great to see such a stark contrast here. Calm, thinking , using collective knowledge and making the best of extremely little control... The fact more people lived than died is testament to just how well they really did. Great video as always FH.
Those pilots were true fighters, fighting till the bitter end
In 1989, I worked for General Electric in the photo lab. We printed thousands of photos. Every part they could find was photographed . All summer they searched for that fan disc. They drained many ponds. Not until October when a farmer harvested his corn ,was it found. They paid a lot of money for it. The company was on edge to say the least.
Thank you for covering this! My grandma lived close to the Sioux City airport. That afternoon she took three of my cousins and myself to a lake to swim and when we left we heard the news on the radio. We drove to a bridge that looked towards the airport and we saw black smoke rising from the cornfields. Terribly sad day but I am still so proud of our Siouxland first responders and the flight crew.
As soon as you mentioned Captain Al Haynes, I knew what case this was. The teamwork from this crew was amazing, troubleshooting on the spot and executing it as well as they did. For as many things that went wrong, it's also amazing the things that went right.
It's incredible that as terrible as it was, it could have been so much worse. Just so sad all the way around.
Absolutely supreme Airmanship. The crew will have been absolutely gutted at the loss of so many lives, but it would have been everyone lost if not for them. Another fine video. Thank you.
The fact that there were survivors at all is amazing. Those pilots had ice in their veins, especially Fitch. As far as I'm concerned, they're heroes.
They made a movie about the crash called "A Thousand Heroes" about the emergency services involved in the rescue. Sioux City had already set up mass casualty protocols to get the various services working together. I think they were able to do triage and get the survivors off the runway and on their way to hospitals in like 46 minutes or something like that. It was a crazy low amount of time to find people and get them to hospitals.
Thanks for this one man. I've lived in Sioux City all my life, my dad said the airplane "cartwheeled" across the runway. It's so weird seeing that map on this channel with all those nearby towns. There is a memorial down by the river, just down stream from the Veterans Memorial Bridge (known to most as the purple bridge lol). I like to cruise around on the dirt roads behind the airport, so I drive by the scene of the crash often. I always loved the fact that people helped each other in this accident instead of just running for their lives.
My baseball coach from around 20 years ago was on this flight with his wife. They were among the blessed to survive. Terrible to see so many lives lost, but also amazing work by the men to save those that were spared.
Wow. This story is quite something. You really have to give it to this crew for pushing through this situation and that man that studied and practice that Japanese flight over and over. This was like a best worst case scenario of it happening. They gave it their all when saving lives.
I find it incredible how a majority of the people on the plane survived. This was only 12 years after Tenerife yet the captain was so much more willing to listen to the crew and even the random DC-10 instructor who happened to be on the flight.
its an incredible life lesson I wish more people learned earlier on. It's never a bad thing to hear advice, even if you don't take it, it can make you think of somthing you weren't and that can be crucial.
Absolutely fascinating bless all those lost souls but I commend the professionalism of the flight crew and the surviving passengers who assisted one and other to escape that burning plane, excellent episode as always Sir!!!🙏😢🛬❣️
The crash landing of United Airlines Flight 232 is, I would say, the greatest feat of civil aviation in history. All logic says that plane should’ve been a smoking crater in a cornfield, no one had even ever considered trying to fly a plane with absolutely none of the flight control surfaces working, but those pilots managed to get that thing on the ground and save _most_ of the people on board. They’re goddamned heros.
My grandfather was in this crash and saved a young girl from the burning rubble, he talks about how he was suspended upside down and remembers the people who were unsuccessful in escaping the hull. This is a story my family will always remember and appreciate how much of a hero my grandfather is. I couldn’t be more inspired by his courage.
I’d like to add that my grandfather couldn’t save the little girls brother. He later went on to attend the girl he saved wedding years later. He still stays in touch with the family and started a tradition where he always visits and calls the family on thanksgiving. Also I’d like to add no compensation was given to my grandfather after the crash but also has no ptsd from the crash surprisingly
Honestly, I like getting hopeful stories like this where luck and human cooperation/determination prevent a terrible situation from getting worse
I am always surprised that hydraulic systems are not quarantined in areas so a leak in one part either locks down other sections or they have completely different non linked lines so at least some control would be maintained in the event of one section failing.
They are now ( or should be, anyway), at the time it was thought that such a scenario was impossible. Hence why United maintenance couldn't tell them anything.
Aircraft mechanic here. The device you are talking about is called a hydraulic fuse. They are shut-off valves activated by the pressure differential between pump pressure and the lower pressure cause by a break in the hydraulic line, or when there is excessive fluid flow, again caused by a massive leak.
Hydraulic fuse valves are a thing now precisely because of crashes like this.
@@Myrea_Rend Good to know
The aircraft design had three independent hydraulic loops, so in theory a leak in one should leave the other two avaiable to get the plane safely on the ground.
What happened when the fan disk, spinning at thousands of RPMs, came apart? Acted like a giant shotgun, blasting right through an area of the plane lines for all three systems had to pass through to get to the tail control surfaces.
No one considered that failure mode before, and so besides improved inspections to catch cracks in the rotors before they go catastrophic? The hydralic systems were retrofited with valves that would detect such a sudden pressure drop and isolate that section to preserve some controls.
In this case they'd still lose the tail surfaces, but keep the wings. Enough for an emergency landing at least.
The cockpit recording of this incident is on youtube somewhere, its quite something, listening to it, knowing how it turned out, the captains (i think) comment, when told something along the lines of 'youre clear to land on any runway', is actually funny.... incredible that they managed to remian so calm whilst chaos was going on around them....
I remember this crash like it was yesterday. Then I read a book a few years ago by someone who was on the plane, and I couldn't put it down; it was so riveting. My heart goes out to all the families who lost loved ones.
The efforts of the first responders was key to the survival of the victims that day as well. This was addressed in the CBS movie The Crash of Flight 232, which starred Charlton Heston as Captain Haynes.
Just sat down to dinner, good timing FH & thank you for the thoughtful and sensitive way you present your vids!
I remember this accident so well. Was visiting my grandparents in Iowa close to Sioux City. We were watching on TV.
Fascinating story! I've seen several documentaries on this crash. The never give up attitude of the flight crew is definitely awe inspiring! I always enjoy your videos, keep up the great work!
You really don't know what you would do in such a situation unless faced with it yourself hopefully it never ends up coming to that but everything is really out of your hands whenever you get onto a plane and its simply down to how lucky that you are
Though this is a truly harrowing tale of loss, it’s also an example of true bravery and comradeship amongst that crew. Many people are alive today because of their amazing teamwork.
I'm always so impressed with people who can stay professional and work through such an incident. I'm certainly not one of them, I've never even gotten my driver's licence because of anxiety. I really admire this crew, that so many lived is something to be proud of.
No one should have survived this crash. Credit the pilots and crew for saving as many as they did.
Another great video as usual!
Been waiting for this one.
This is where I am from and where I grew up. I remember this vividly, even saw it as it was coming down.
As a matter of fact, two of our tires blew out that day on the access road that runs next to the airport from airplane debris.
A few months prior to this accident, the director of Emergency Services in the area ran a drill involving the crash of a large airliner involving all of the local responders. Helped tremendously.
A movie on this with Charlton Heston was filmed a few years later, some people in my class were in it.
The flight crew and passengers stayed in contact with our community, and continue to do so until this day.
I live an hour north of Sioux City. My class did a field trip one year in grade school to the museum not far from the crash site, and I’ve been there a couple times since. The museum is not very big, but they do have some cool stuff in there. They even have a few pieces of the wreckage from the plane at the museum. Definitely worth stopping by if you happen to be in the area.
I still fine it incredible that more than half of the people on the flight survived the crash.
Anyone unfamiliar should look up this case and watch videos from the more aviation-inclined channels. This channel covered it well, but you’ll get a lot more detail and information about just how screwed this situation was. This is, I believe, one of maybe 3 or 4 incidents involving total loss of hydraulics that didn’t kill every single person. My info may be wrong there but I encourage you to look into it.
I personally recommend Mentour Pilot for those interested, they are a pilot and have extremely high quality in depth aviation videos. Would love to hear some more recommendations too though!
The DHL flight in 2003 lost all three systems and landed safely, despite a section of the wing missing due to a missile. That’s also a worthy incident to look at if anyone is interested.
Always especially heartbreaking to hear of any tragedy involving children RIP to thrm all
The 80's were an insane time. I remember as a kid there was a few major plane crashes a year in the US now they are so rare I can't even remember the last major crash (Maybe Colgan 3407 in 2009?)
Because aviation learns from it’s failures. And makes sure they’re not repeated.
Thank the NTSB
Yep, Colgan 3407 is correct.
Love your content!! Keep up the good work!!
I awaken within 15 minutes of you uploading, every time! I'm in OK, USA so it's 4:30am )as of me writing this, always a pleasure to wake to!
Schooners!
@@kenosabi Boomer Sooner!
4:15 can you imagine being a passenger and being able to recognize the fact that you are crashing to your death?
That would be the most beautiful moment of my life
My older sister was the lead flight attendant on this flight. She luckily survived and Captain Haynes was her hero the rest of his life. She has been championing no more lap babies allowed on flights since after the tragic death of a young toddler boy named Evan on this flight…..
This crash is a well known one in the equestrian community. Michael Matz, an Olympic show jumper turned racehorse trainer (Barbaro), was on this flight along with his wife, D.D. I have seen so many interviews of Matz talking about surviving this crash. He was able to save several children that were in the rows next to him. I remember him saying that D.D. took off running off the plane and didn't stop until she was a mile away in a cornfield. What an unbelievable story and wish they all had made it out.
It's a miracle so many survived. The film Fearless is based off of this crash. There's an incredible video of the plane crash landing, I'm surprised you didn't add it to the story.
I've been waiting for this one! If one can be said to have a "favorite" plane crash story, this is mine.
I love that this past week, two different creators did a story on something that happened in Iowa that I had never heard of despite living here my entire life. thank you for discussing this
The footage of the crash is horrific. How anyone survived is just incredible.
You missed a key piece of information we all want to know……did he get that beer?
The miracle in the cornfields . . .
The very Gods were with the crew that day, it is truly a miracle anyone survived this crash.
This is one of those rare times everything came together, the right people with the right experience at the right time.
EVERYONE on that plane should have died, the fact so many lived is a testament to the skill and tenacity of the crew and Denny Fitch, it is only because of their calmness and control that 100s lived. This should not have been considered complete without a photo of the cockpit post-crash. They were all encapsulated in a ball less than 8 feet across that was ignored by rescuers until the copilot managed to stick his arm out and wave for help. The number of miracles on that day will never be era=qualled again. Even Sully's effort on the Hudson is lesser than this, not in piloting skill but in the sheer blessing of The Gods. Sully did good but this, this was pure Godly blessing. No one should have lived thru this and as someone who has spoken to one of those who witnessed the survivors walking out of the cornfields toward them exactly as portrayed in the film there is simply no explanation other than those folk were not destined to die that day.
Well put !
This was not the only dramatic flight involving United Airlines, that same year just five months prior, United Airlines flight 811 experienced an in-flight calamity and an emergency landing. On 24 February 1989, a Boeing 747 bound from Honolulu, Hawaii to Auckland, New Zealand, experienced explosive decompression after the cargo door opened during the flight, it swung open and smashed the hull, tragically, nine passengers seated near the door were blown out of the aircraft. Incredibly, the captain and the crew fought to keep the plane airborne, despite a massive hole in the fuselage, still managed to turn around and landed safely, undoubtedly a mastery of airmanship, but the drama was not over. The parents of one of the fatalities, a New Zealander named Lee Campbell, embarked on their own investigation, the Campbells travelled to the US, and blew the lid off of the lies and subterfuge at Boeing, and the NTSB, who were aware of the flaws in the locks to the cargo door, the Campbells' investigation led to the NTSB revising their final report, and forced Boeing to fix their design flaws. Captain David Cronin, Kevin and Susan Campbell were the real heroes of this saga, from the captain who save the plane, and the New Zealand parents who wanted justice for their lost son, all did their part to ensure nothing like flight 811 could ever happen again.
ATC: "You're clear to land on any runway"
Captain Haynes: "Haha, you want to be particular and make it a runway, huh?"
The captain was so calm while dealing with this stressful event, even in the final approach.
This is pretty amazing. Sad but amazing. Respect to the pilot & suprise passenger