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Fine because we was going too fast and the original descent was too big and i knew something was going to happen. >> at exactly 4:00 p.m., 44 minutes after the problem began, a violent impact. >> as the right wing hit the ground, the tail snapped off. the entire tail of the plane broke off just as if it were a toy and went rocketing down the runway at 250 miles per hour. i heard explosions and loud noises and flashes of light, and it had to be with the plane breaking apart. >> al could have kept...

Extended normally. the force causes the plane to vibrate and yaw or pull to the right. a light in the cockpit to indicate the landing gear is down and locked does not illuminate. >> when the landing gear extends under normal system operation its hydraulic and extends at a given rate very smoothly. in the case of united 173, what occurred is it fell out and fell at a very rapid rate and one of the other components of the landing gear also broke free and in so doing damaged the wiring that closes ...

Begins to vibrate and shutter. pilots determine the number two engine has failed. >> i began to realize how serious it was when i saw the flight crew come back, and they were trying to look out the windows, the passenger windows, just to observe what was going on with the physical condition of the airplane. and you could tell by looking at the flight crew that something serious was up. >> and as they go through the checklist, officer bill records, who was flying the plane, realized they had a mo...

Red line. >> you want to be particular, make it a runway. >> runway united flight instructor danny finch flying in first class has offered to help and is now in the cockpit. captain haynes willingness to accept fitchs offer is crew resource management in action. >> he would not have said anything prior to crm because you dont go up to the cockpit and bother a captain when youve got a problem. >> captain finch was a perfect addition to an already effective crew, but he was an additional asset. >>...

Said were having a little trouble with the landing gear. were going to be in the air just a little bit longer this is a pretty common problem, dont worry about it. >> captain mcbroom was a very experienced pilot, tens of thousands of hours and 5,000 hours as a captain of the dc 8 he was flying that night. so this was mr. dc 8 expert and that may have convinced him if if he just studied a little more into the manual and talked to the people in the maintenance center, he would figure out whether o...

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. >> its 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 dont work, and because they cant be properly configured the ground proximity warning system doesnt realize that th...

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Copilot locked the captain out and purposely crashed the jet in march. now back to our regular programming. on july 19th, 1989, united airlines flight 232 is in deep crisis. after an explosion, the dc10 loses its tailmounted 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 ste...

United flight 173 has been flying in a holding pattern near the portland oregon airport for more than an hour. the captain wants time to troubleshoot a possible landing gear problem but now, something far more urgent is on the horizon. >> portland tower, united 173, mayday, mayday, the engines are flaming out, were going down. were not going to be able to make the airport. >> the passengers are aware of the increasingly dire situation. >> the only lights on were reading lights and some people re...

Runway. with 9,000 hours in the cockpit, the captain is experienced. he knows the faa has issued an advisory that the guam glide slope is out of service, but in the last 2 1/2 minutes of the flight, the glide slope needle starts to move. >> he believed that that movement was, in fact, due to the fact that the glide slope may be working. >> because the glide slope is down, korean 801 is flying a nonprecision approach, which is more complex. that means the plane closes in on the runway in a step-d...