Air Crash Investigation

Impossible Landing (United Airlines Flight 232)

E13    Apr 13, 2012    45m    TV-14
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On 19 July 1989, the tail-mounted number two engine of United Airlines Flight 232 explodes, causing serious damage to the aircraft's hydraulic systems and leaving the flight controls unusable. By varying engine thrust, the pilots manage to crash-land the aircraft at the Sioux Gateway Airport in Iowa, saving the lives of 185 of the 296 people on board. The investigation traced the engine failure to a fatigue crack in the front fan disk which had developed from a defect introduced before the disk was even made, when the original titanium ingot used to make it was formed.
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Cast of Impossible Landing (United Airlines Flight 232)
  • Stephen BogaertNarrator (voice)
  • Jonathan ArisNarrator (Nat Geo)
  • Stewart ArnottCaptain Al Haynes
  • Jonah BayFirst Officer Bill Records
  • Dennis MirkovicSecond Officer Dudley Dvorak
  • Robert B. KennedyDennis Fitch
  • Tara YellandFlight Attendant Jan
  • Adam ChuckrykJerry Schemmel
  • Christian BellsmithATC Controller
  • Kris RyanBob MacIntosh

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