Twenty-five years ago this week — July 19, 1989 — United Airlines Flight 232 from Denver to Chicago experienced extreme mechanical malfunction while at a cruising height of 37,000 feet. Its cockpit ...

With two catastrophic crashes of Boeing 737 Max 8 planes less than six months apart, that leap of faith we make every time we board an airplane has again come into sharp relief. We depend on a ...

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The following are excerpts from the crew of Flight 232 to Sioux City air traffic control, as transcribed by the Federal Aviation Administration: 3:26 p.m. -- UAL 232: OK, so you know we have almost no ...

Twenty-five years ago, United Airlines Flight 232 crash-landed in Sioux City, Iowa. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Laurence Gonzales, author of the book Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival.

Twenty-five years ago today, one of the most horrific plane crashes ever caught on video occurred in Sioux City, Iowa. United Airlines flight 232 was en route from Denver to Chicago, when the engine ...

On July 19, 1989, United Airlines Flight 232 lost power to its No. 2 two engine. The plane shook and careened starboard as a loud bang shot through the cabin. Knees buckled. Flight attendants hit the ...

Jerry Schemmel’s nightmare always started in the quiet after the crash, in the stillness and smoke. It went like this: He is on the ground looking for the boy on the airplane and in the cornfield. He ...

In “United Flight 232,” the new show at the House Theatre that you really shouldn’t miss, you leave with a new understanding of how much flight crew members do for us when we’re aloft — a bizarre and ...

SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Twenty-five years after United Flight 232 cartwheeled down a runway airport here, the video of the DC-10 crashing and burning still brings a hushed silence to those watching. But a ...

(KTIV) - Dennis Nielsen, whose rescue efforts during Flight 232 became a symbol of Siouxland’s spirit in the face of tragedy, has died. KTIV confirmed his death with Gary Brown, the former Woodbury ...

It was a little over an hour into United Flight 232 when the plane suffered its first explosion. “It was just so loud that there’s no way to describe how loud it was,” said Jan Murray, one of the ...