United Airlines Flight 232
United Airlines Flight 232 was a scheduled flight from Stapleton International Airport in Denver, Colorado, to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. On July 19, 1989, the DC-10 (registered N1819U) operating the route crash-landed in Sioux City, Iowa, after suffering a big failure of its tail-mounted engine, leading to the loss of all flight controls. Of the 296 people on board, 111 died in the accident while 185 survived.
 The airplane moments before the crash | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | July 19, 1989 |
| Summary | Uncontained engine failure due to faulty titanium alloy, leading to loss of hydraulics and flight controls |
| Site | Sioux Gateway Airport Sioux City, Iowa, United States 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 | 111 |
| Injuries | 172 |
| Survivors | 184 |
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- NTSB Accident report of United Airlines Flight 232 Archived 2011-01-04 at the Wayback Machine
- Cockpit voice-recorder transcript (pdf) (NB contains error) Archived 2011-06-26 at the Wayback Machine
- A talk given by the pilot describing the crash at NASA Dryden in 1991
- Siouxland Chamber Of Commerce: Remembering Flight 232 (Picture of memorial depicting Lt. Colonel Dennis Nielsen carrying Spencer Bailey)
- "17th Anniversary Tribute of Flight 232" Archived 2016-02-04 at the Wayback Machine
- News report with video of crash landing of Flight 232, ABC News, July 19, 1989
- Pre-crash landing photos from Airliners.net
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