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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. >> 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 pilot is trying to land. it begins to sound, adding to the chaos in the cockpit. >> the left w...

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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 steer the plane. but even under this unimaginable pressure, captain al haynes manages to crack a joke w...

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, we're going down. we're 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 realized that something was wrong and yelled for us to get our heads down. >> the plane has run out ...

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-down procedure, each step is a predetermined minimum altitude which planes must stay above. but accor...