The United captain was praised as a hero for the ‘miracle’ landing of a crippled DC-10.
Alfred C. Haynes, who credited luck for what others described as the miraculous landing of a crippled McDonnell Douglas DC-10 at a municipal airport in Iowa, has died at age 87.
Capt. Haynes wrote about United Flight 232 in the June 1991 issue of the Foundation’s Accident Prevention.
The U.S.-based National Safety Council (NSC) is calling for uniform child passenger safety practices across multiple modes of transportation, including school buses, airplanes and personal vehicles. As far as aviation…
Twenty-five years ago, on July 19, 1989, a Douglas DC-10 crash landing in Sioux City, Iowa, U.S., became an archetypal example of successful crew resource management. United Airlines Flight 232…
