Within minutes of the explosion, Dudley Dvorak contacted the nearest major traffic control operation in Minneapolis and requested the location of the closest airport to their current location.
The actual flight path of United 232Īlthough a two-dimensional chart of the plane’s flight path thus far would indicate a crazy circular pattern, in truth the aircraft’s trajectory was more like that of a corkscrew which meant the plane was steadily losing altitude.
Jerry noted the location of the emergency exit, literally just a few feet away and vowed to himself that he would help get the mother and her son to safety as quickly as possible. Jerry watched as the child struggled to avoid his mother’s grip, eventually crawling to the top of his mother’s seat and smiling at Jerry, oblivious to the approaching danger. The flight attendant handed the woman several pillows to wrap around the infant, who looked to be about two years old. A flight attendant was with them, perhaps she believed the mother and child might be safer in this location. Only fifteen minutes from Sioux City, Jerry Schemmel, noticed a woman and her small child slipping into an empty seat directly in front of him. When Flight 232 crashed, many people were killed but miraculously many more actually survived. The additional crew was made up of eight flight attendants, serving the 285 passengers on board, the plane near capacity. The three men had accrued close to seventy-thousand hours of flight time in their careers and Haynes especially was highly experienced at the controls of a McDonnell-Douglas DC-10, the aircraft making the flight. The crew of the plane was led by 57-year-old Captain Alfred “Al” Haynes, assisted by William (Bill) Records, 48, with flight engineer Dudley Dvorak, 51. The flight was headed to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and was destined to continue to Philadelphia. On Wednesday, July 19, 1989, at approximately 1:09 PM Mountain Time, United Flight 232 took off from Denver’s Stapleton International Airport.
Captain Al Haynes, at a news conference the day after landing United Flight 232 The response of Haynes and his crew and the ensuing landing provided one of the most remarkable stories in the history of commercial aviation. On July 19, 1989, United Air Lines pilot Captain Al Haynes was confronted with a mechanical failure that threatened all 296 passengers aboard his flight, United 232.
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