As the flight engineer, Dudley Dvorak, watched, hydraulic pressure in all three systems fell to zero the aircraft began yawing and banking right and first officer William Records, who had been pilot flying, disengaged the autopilot and attempted to correct its course. This announced itself on the flight deck with a loud bang and the throttle for the number two engine snapping shut. There were 296 passengers and crew on board 111 died in the crash, one died a month later, and 184 survived.įlight 232 was on its way from Denver to Chicago when the DC-10’s tail mounted number two engine exploded. On July 19, 1989, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 operating United Airlines flight 232 crashed on landing at Sioux City, Iowa, US, after suffering a catastrophic failure in its tail-mounted engine, which severed all three hydraulic systems, disabling its primary flight controls. Today is the thirtieth anniversary of a crash that demonstrated beyond all doubt that crew resource management (CRM) is a lifesaving concept. The DC-10 that crashed as United Airlines flight 232, 30 years ago.
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