following faa protocol advises parents to place lap children on the floor. those are kids under 2 years old without paid seats. she s about to announce that passengers should brace for impact when captain haynes overrides her on the p.a. there was an announcement that this is going to be a seriously difficult landing. he said, i won t kid you, it s going to be rough. do the best you can. the plane is traveling at 247 miles per hour. 100 miles an hour too fast for a dc10 to land. without hydraulic fluid, the controls that would normally slow the plane down don t work, and because they can t be properly configured, the ground proximity warning system doesn t realize that the pilots are trying to land. it begins to sound, adding to the chaos in the cockpit.
three airliners in fatal accidents, so united management was quick to jump on board and was quick to spend the money. to develop the course. as veteran captain al haynes recalls the training was initially received with a dose of skepticism. those captains who needed it didn t want it, and wasn t really going to do it so we thought it was a waste of time until we began to get into the flow of things, and then we understood what it was all about. coming up captain haynes has no way of knowing that just a few years later, training to improve communication between crew members will help him get through one of the most terrifying situations a pilot could ever face, a catastrophic loss of control of a jumbo jet. so, i tried depend last weekend. it really made the difference between a morning around the house and getting a little exercise.
thousands march to honor a sheriff gunned down while fueling up. shannon miles is accused of killing sheriff goforth. now back to our msnbc special. on july 19th, 1989, united airlines flight 232 is in deep crisis. after an explosion, the dc10 loses its tail-mounted number two engine along with all of its hydraulic fluid which operates the landing gear, glass, slats, steering and brakes. the only control pilots have is over the throttles which determine engine speed. by adjusting thrust on one side or the other, pilots are able to steer the plane. but even under this unimaginable pressure, captain al haynes manages to crack a joke with air