Name: Mayday
Genre: Documentary

Mayday Episode 11.13 Impossible Landing (United Airlines Flight 232)

Mayday Episode 11.13 Impossible Landing (United Airlines Flight 232)

Episode Premiere

April 13, 2012

Genre

Documentary

Production Company

Cineflix Productions

Official Site

http://www.discovery.ca/Shows/Mayday

Information

Episode Premiere

April 13, 2012

Genre

Documentary

Period

2003 -

Production Co

Cineflix Productions

Distributor

Official Site

http://www.discovery.ca/Shows/Mayday

Cast and Crew

Director

Michael Sinyi

Screenwriter

Armen Kazazian

Main Cast

Stephen Bogaert

Additional Cast

Stewart Arnott
Jonah Bay
Dennis Mirkovic
Robert B. Kennedy
Tara Yelland

Synopsis

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.