But miraculously, of the 296 people onboard, including Haynes and his crew, 184 managed to survive the horrific ordeal. With no way to stop, the plane broke up on impact, scattering debris across the runway and into nearby cornfields. This meant that the crew, led by Captain Al Haynes, had almost no control over the aircraft, and that they would have to come in for an extremely difficult landing at Gateway Airport in Sioux City, Iowa. First having aired on TV in 1992, CRASH LANDING is a highly well-made dramatization of the saga of United Airlines Flight 232 which, while enroute from Denver to Chicago on July 19, 1989, suffered a catastrophic explosion in its tail engine which severed all the plane's hydraulic lines.
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