Impossible Landing (United Airlines Flight 232)

Summary

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.

Guest stars

• Stewart Arnott as Captain Al Haynes
• Jonah Bay as First Officer Bill Records
• Dennis Mirkovic as Second Officer Dudley Dvorak
• Robert B. Kennedy as Dennis Fitch
• Tara Yelland as Flight Attendant Jan
• Adam Chuckryk as Jerry Schemmel
• Christian Bellsmith as ATC Controller
• Kris Ryan as Bob MacIntosh
• John Cox as John Cox