Flying WITHOUT Controls! United Airlines flight 232
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2020
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On the 19th of July 1989 a United Airlines DC10 suffered a catastrophic engine failure to its tail mounted engine (eng nr2). The engine failure managed to damage all three hydraulic systems on the aircraft rendering completely without normal flight controls. What followed after that is one of the biggest miracles in modern aviation as the 3 person cockpit crew, with the help of a training captain flying as a passenger, managed to get the aircraft down to Sioux City airport. There was still considerable loss of life but 185 persons were saved by the skill, CRM and nerves of the flight and cabin-crew onboard.
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Below you will find the links to videos and sources used in this episode. Enjoy checking them out!
Shatner Method (News reporting on UA 232)
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Final Accident report:
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Wikipedia United Airlines flight 232
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Captain Denny Fitch was horribly injured during the crash, but held out hope that he would one day recover to fly again. His doctors didn't hold out much hope, but they were dealing with quite an extraordinary man. Not only did he recover, he returned to flying for United Airlines, and on the DC-10. Sadly, he lost his life to brain cancer in 2012. These brave men who fought all odds and saved so many lives have been an inspiration to me over the years, and will always be true heroes.
A miracle that the plane even took off, considering how overloaded it was with balls of steel.
What are even the odds that the one single person to ever simulate this "impossible" emergency scenario would be onboard while the exact event itself occurs?
I remember watching a documentary about this and there was a significant reward for anyone finding the broken fan disk. A farmer found it sometime later in a corn field but turned down the reward as people had died in the accident. High morals indeed.
That's literally the most experienced flight crew that could have been assembled.
From the moment all three hydraulic circuits failed this was pretty much a non-survivable event. It is tragic that 111 people died but it is remarkable that 185 survived. How the flight crew achieved what they did is nothing short of miraculous.
I would argue that, with all due respect to Sully, this was the most incredible feat of flying in the history of commercial aviation.
I remember a report at the time that Captain Haynes, on hearing the number of deaths, moaned "I killed 112 people." He was reassured that he did not kill them, he saved 184. By all expectations nobody should have survived.
The fact that they put other pilots in the simulator with the same situation and none of them could save the plane shows just how utterly amazing this flight crew was.
one of the things I love about this channel is even though he goes into depth about all the details, and most of the views are just random nerds who never have touched the controls of a plane, he talks to us as if we're all pilots. He really does feel like a mentor
RIP - Captain Al Haynes, August 25, 2019.
ATC, as the jet was a couple minutes out: “you’re cleared to any runway.”
I remember that accident well. About a year or two later, I went to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum IMAX theater to hear a talk from Captain Haynes. The Federal Aviation Administration offices were just a block or so away. The auditorium was packed with people from all across the aviation industry: Airline pilots. Private pilots, Mechanics, Crew members, and many people from the FAA.
I remember an old PBS documentary about this event. They interviewed the flight, cabin crew and some passengers and their accounts were obviously chilling. But what has always stuck in my mind is a comment someone (I think it was a flight attendant) made that they saw a passenger who was thrown clear of the cabin and onto the tarmac, pick himself off the ground - found his briefcase (which happened to land next to him) and walked away from the carnage apparently unhurt. It still blows my mind.
An interesting bit of information from the wiki on this crash; Of the 296 people aboard, 112 were killed and 184 survived. Haynes later identified three factors relating to the time of day that increased the survival rate:
I am so glad you featured this flight today as I have personally met Captain Haynes. It was in 1999, the captain was in my little town of Sulphur Springs Texas to give a speech about working through an emergency. The audience was a gathering of local emergency personnel, and we were preparing for any possible negative events as we awaited the upcoming Y2K turnover. Captain Haynes gave us the full accounting of events on that day of the crash. The story he told was personal, and what he told us was so amazing. As a typical Texan he humbly attributed any success to his crew, and the people on the ground. Despite the bad luck suffered by his plane had he pointed out all the other variables were favorable for a more positive outcome. Truly they were very lucky, the weather was perfect, the local emergency officials knew they were coming in and were prepared, citizens were lined up to give blood before before they even "landed". It was shift change time at local hospitals so they had double the staff there awaiting new patients. He said he didn't remember the crash but woke up in a hospital bed and noticed the TV before him was playing footage of a plane crashing. He said to his wife, "No one could survive that crash". to which she informed him that was his plane. There was much more but this is long enough. I can only say by the time he was done, I knew I was in the presence of a hero, and simply would not leave the room until I had the opportunity to tell him so and shake his hand. He was born in Paris, Texas, grew up in Dallas, and went to Texas A&M University.
From watching the Mayday episode about this, where they interviewed some of the crew, im pretty sure i remember Denny Fitch talking about that final dip before landing and he is utterly heartbroken and annoyed at himself for losing control of it right at that point in time, even though his actions probably saved everyone they did, i think he thought even more could have survived if he had been able to correct it in time. But the fact any survived it is just astounding
Even if there were casualties, he managed to save half of the passengers. What a legend.
Captain Fitch is reported to have had an interest in the topic of total loss of hydraulic pressure after studying the crash of JAL123. That is why he went to the simulator to study it. A very fortuitous turn of events that he did have some experience with the topic beforehand.
The captain and his crew were more than heroics, they handled the situation incredibly well with no flight controls at all!