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Mayday - Season 11 Episode 13 : Impossible Landing (United Airlines Flight 232)

Jan 01, 1970 00:46:14m

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Documentary, Drama, Crime

Seasons and episodes

Episode List

Ep 1 Deadly Reputation (TAM Airlines Flight 3054)

2011-08-12

Ep 2 The Plane That Flew Too High (West Caribbean Airways Flight 708)

2011-08-19

Ep 3 Split Decision (Arrow Air Flight 1285)

2011-08-26

Ep 4 Break Up Over Texas (Continental Express Flight 2574)

2011-12-29

Ep 5 Munich Air Disaster (British European Airways Flight 609)

2011-12-29

Ep 6 Turning Point (Northwest Airlines Flight 85)

2011-12-29

Ep 7 Bad Attitude (Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509)

2012-01-20

Ep 8 Blind Spot (PSA Flight 182)

2012-01-27

Ep 9 Under Pressure (Nigeria Airways Flight 2120)

2012-02-03

Ep 10 I'm the Problem (Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771)

2012-02-10

Ep 11 Nowhere to Land (TACA Flight 110)

2012-02-17

Ep 12 The Invisible Plane (The Linate Airport Disaster)

2012-03-23

Ep 13 Impossible Landing (United Airlines Flight 232)

2012-04-13

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.