The way he and those pilots manipulated the control of the plane through thrust and speed and hit it even remotely CLOSE to that airport is absolutely unbelievable, incredible. What a hero
@@theyaduvanshiindian391 still, there are hydraulic lines in the wings too. if the exposed fan disk for engine 1 or 3 had sheared off, shrapnel could puncture those lines. and if the hydraulic lines are connected to and powered by the engine it would take out the engine's hydraulic reservoir as well.
Capt Al Haynes refused to ever call himself a "Hero" & not one of the other 3 Gentleman in the cockpit ever did either. So I'll take this opportunity to say it for all 4 of them, "HERO'S" the lot of them! Not only them, but all the flight attendants as well, "HERO'S"!! Plus the ATC, the countless passengers, that risked their lives, lives that had literally just seconds before been spared, to take the PRECIOUS TIME to help other's get out of the burning toxic smoke filled wreckage, especially that "HERO" that turned & waded back in to save that crying baby 👼 All the medical folks "HERO'S" The rescue/emergency responders "HERO'S"!! All the volunteer folks, the countless Sioux City Iowa residents, that came to volunteer, to do ANYTHING they could to help anyone they could, to save people's lives "HERO'S" I believe this is what Captain Haynes was saying, that on that terrible day 112 poor souls perished, but 184 victims were saved, because EVERYONE came together to do "HEROIC" thing's, in my eyes, they are ALL HERO'S 💪✝️👍!! RIP Captain Haynes & ALL who perished on 232 & since 🙏😞
I met Captain Haynes when he did his lecture in South Portland, Maine back in 1998. He was a very nice man and his lecture was very very powerful and well done.
I sat through one of his lectures on CRM. He really help me shape a better understanding of it. Not just for flying, but just about everything we do when working together.
I’m totally in awe while watching this video and hearing Captain Haynes speak. And totally amazed and heartened by the utmost class and humanity of literally everyone in this story. A truly inspiring narrative of average people with above-average neighborly concern for their fellow human beings in the face of nearly unspeakable tragedy. At the time this air crash occurred, I was in shock and horror. It’s just awesome, these decades later, to put a human face on this shocking event.
Listening to this, I am amazed each time how calm Al Haynes and air traffic controller Kevin Bachman are. Both knew there certainly would not be a good ending that day, but handled it incredibly well.
He never took credit for this. He said his entire crew deserved the kudos. He did speeches about CRM. Learned so much from him that day. Heck of a pilot! Also some kudos to the controller. They did a heck of a job giving them options.
@@larrycraddock3063 Arguably Finch did the critical part over most of the time. Sicne he had his hands on the only working controls. After Haynes initial reaction with the throttles saved te plane. However, none of them ever raised that argument. All of them, most obvious the captain here only talk about "we" and never "I". So neither should we single one out.
So thankful he had a well experienced, TCA , that just happened to be a passenger that day ! UAL Training Check Airman Captain Denny Fitch ! The living embodiment of true professionalism & courage !
Never heard this pilot before, but have known about the feat he managed to pull off for some time. I think it's incredible anyone survived, given the situation of losing all flight controls at cruise fl330
RIP Al Haynes! I had the pleasure of meeting Captain Haynes. I also got to sit through one of his speeches/class regarding Crew Resource Management. The silence on the room as he spoke was so sobering. He never called or considered himself a hero. He said it was the entire crew that helped get the airplane near a runway. I learned so much from his speech. He was an amazing man, and he is sorely missed. I hope this video helps others the way he helped me.
An American and human hero in the truest sense. Fate chose him, he stepped up in an admirable way to do the unimaginable with grace and courage in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. I know he suffered with survivor’s guilt for awhile as was documented in other sources as well but I pray the gentleman truly was able to appreciate what a difference he and his crew made in saving so many and teaching the world so much. More should look at his example and the example of the crew of ASE 529 rather than pro athletes and the Hollywood elites! True class and exemplary behavior when it counts. Fly true, Captain Al!
Ernest Hemingway's defining courage as "grace under pressure" comes to mind. The degree of calm, focus and control in Captain Haynes' voice is phenomenal, and his ability to retain a sense of humor amidst a truly dire situation is remarkable.
59:05 Captain Haynes hesitancy, eye movements and words at this point make me think that he never really accepted the fact that he could not have done better. Underlines how important post traumatic stress disorder is.
Thanks to this amazing captain to give this talk back in the day and thanks for sharing this here on YT. Truly amazing to be able to benefit from the insights of captain Haynes!
God bless all involved, and all that lost their lives. It is hard to imagine maintaining composure the way this cockpit/cabin crew did in the face of the certain crash.
No question one of the greatest aviators of all time and that was before this disaster, calling it a miracle is an understatement, even experienced aviators have a hard time believing this actually happened as total loss is hydraulics, well to call it a Death Sentence would also be a severe understatement, the fact anyone survived let alone more than half is one of those moments ive thought about numerous times in my life sometimes at crisis points like Anything Is Possible if Anyone Can Survive that...I hope you're flying higher than ever Captain Haynes
Only two commercial planes managed to reach the ground with survivors after total hydraulic failure, United 232 and a DHL A300 that was shot down over Baghdad.
My dad's cousin was a captain for American Airlines. We talked about this incident. The DC-10 was one of three planes he routinely flew. He was in total awe of how Al and the crew managed to get that plane to the airport, let alone have more survivors than not.
In case anyone missed it they landed at Sioux City twenty years after Tranquility Base If I remember correctly Al Haynes met Neil Armstrong subsequently, imagine their conversation; UA232 v Gemini 8.
I was a new hire F/A for UA that day. I was in a hotel with my crew and we were having lunch in dining room, before heading out to start our trip at LAX. One of our Pilots told us that we just lost one in Iowa a little while ago. Then we all checked in and flew, like normal. It was odd.
Man what an event for those that lived through this tragedy. Respect for all of those people who responded to this incident. So sad fore those that lost their lives, but a whole lot of people who manages to live. God Bless you all.
This is fantastic and I have the utmost respect for all involved, what I find injects a little humour for me is that this is a NASA film from 1991, I just would have expected better quality!!
I was so shocked that we had nearly 200 survivors! Amazing story and the captains were all trapped in the cockpit that they had to saw the cockpit to get them out. Watch “The Thousand Heroes.” Captain Haynes had the toughest plane to maneuver. They did so many simulations and no one could landed the plane or get near the airport without the plane being exploded. Unlike Sully, who got the world attention. Simulations showed that he was able to make it to either Teterboro or the other airport 50% chance yet he chose to land on the river. When he asked Skies “You got any idea?” That him trying to cover his ass.
So close to having that bird down in one piece. Outstanding airmanship from all in the cockpit for saving the lives that they did. Sully has nothing on Capt Haynes.
35:16 He himself push right engine to full power and left engine to idle yet he says we did if he hadnt done it in few more seconds dc 10 wouldve been unrecoverable
To this day I praise those airmen! They saved lives.they made it to the airport.not only that, they touched down on a runway.controling that huge aircraft only with throttle controls.only other incident I recall in which throttles where used to maneuver the aircraft was Japan Airlines 747.to think about it that 747 had damage at the rear of the aircraft also.what a coincidence
Not anymore the problem is that today's design doesn't support this technique anymore. There is no more asymmetric thrust on the engines to steer the aircraft. They can try for sure but I don't know or think it would work that way.
Seams I remember the Gimli Glider aircraft never lost any hydraulics, as they simply ran out of fuel. If they had lost hydraulics they're airplane would have surely crashed. 232 had complete loss of pressure,due to no fluid to create any, but 232 did have two engine's still operating, otherwise they would have crashed immediately.
Another luck he didn't mentioned Dennis fitch a DC 10 instructor a Captain and former air force pilot was on board as passenger he used to train piolets and was himself Captain of all kinds of large aircraft in usa
U.S.M.C gave us one of their few. Humble man that knows the importance of communication, team work and brainstorming solutions, believe beyond the Problems, that death wasn't the focus. God Bless🕊 Kathleen Pacific Northwest🌲
Captain Haynes always blame himself, but that’s the best he could do. That’s the best anyone would wish to do but not able. It’s on the airplane and that was the work of the devil. It was God’s time to save the day and God did with the help of 112 angels 👼
At the start of his presentation, he specifically explained his choice of the term "luck" instead of using "God" by stating "We all have our personal beliefs and convictions, and I would never intrude on yours." He was simply being mindful of the persons listening to him, which is yet another characteristic of heroism along with a steadfast refusal to apply the term "hero" to oneself.
LOL Haynes: "Roger, we'll be with ya shortly. Thanks for the help." Somehow there was more badassery in that short statement, than anything Hollywood could ever put out.
When you look at it in the context of, until that day, not a single person had survived a complete loss of flight control in the history of commercial aviation.
5:28 ''You wanna be particular and make it a runway huh?'' What a legend, even realising it's hopeless to land anywhere near a runway, he still has his humor!
Yet, they did make it to the runway at Sioux City, it was just the wrong one (runway 22, instead of runway 31), given what we now know. Nobody, has ever, survived this particular crash scenario in all of the simulations run on this particular crash, NOBODY. Given that, they kept working the problem, they never gave up on it....
@@Rob_Moilanen They didn’t land on the wrong runway. Air traffic control gave them clearance to land on any runway. They picked 22 because it lined up with their approach.
Im convinced that if there was any other crew flying flight 232 that fateful day, there would have been a total loss of life. Just an incredible skipper and crew and ground response. Rip. Al haynes
Haynes himself talked about how lucky they were. Having the extra (instructor) pilot on board, having the local community ready for *exactly that* emergency (a jumbo crash w/ 200 survivors) due to civil drills the previous year, the absence of thunderstorms that afternoon (as happened on the one-year memorial service), and the poor tower controller (who did everything right) who had moved from busy Chicago (?) to Sioux City, Iowa where there'd be less stress.
@@robertherndon4351yea the last one made me laugh. He moved to get away from stress and got the toughest one ever lol. I am sure that one prepared him for a huge promotion and bigger and more stressful events.
Impossible landing, made possible by Captain Haynes and crew. Amazing people survived that crash landing. Captain Haynes knew what to do to control a plane with no controls, he knew what the plane was capable of. Unbelievable feat of genius. When you saw the ending I really thought they would all perish, but you saw people wandering away from that plane, it was a miracle.
@@larrycraddock3063ohh helll boo! Sully got nothing on Captain Haynes! Sully jsut got lucky that he got the public attention. Sully was fake humble! He was always hogging the mic on the media. The movie was named after him and he didn’t reject it. They had a museum for him too. He didn’t ask for it to be named after his crew. Sully got lucky that the public protected him and that was why NTSB let him go. In the simulations they were able to safety landed the plane to both airports. Sully miscalculated it or he decided to ditch in the river to cross off his bucket list. Since the public were protecting sully, NTSB had to add 35 seconds of “thinking time” and even with that 70% were able to land safely.
Captain Haynes is an inspiration. I wonder how he managed with what must have been massive survivor's guilt, even though he knows that he executed and led his crew admirably.
Attended this lecture in the 90's while he was in Huntsville Alabama. Afterwards had the privilege of speaking with Captain Haynes and found him remarkable. We shared conversations Captain to Captain and man to man. He was a credit to our profession. Very respectfully Captain Scott Shelton
If anyone knows what contributed to the end results of this incident, it is the man speaking here. He lists five main factors. Trust me, he is correct. He knows. I've read and heard that he disliked being called a 'hero'. I respect that. It was certainly a combined effort on the part of many. A conglomerate of 'heroes' in my opinion. The episode remains to this day one of the most remarkable, not only in aviation history, but in U.S. history.
I just realized while watching this presentation today for the first time, that today is the 33rd anniversary of the incident. I remember seeing this live on television at the time, it has been so many years now........ Much respect for the professionalism that Captain Al and his crew did to minimize the loss of life, and remembering those who perished...... Many, many things have been learned since. Thank you for posting the video.
46:15. That cockpit. It's a marvel in all the carnage enough of the avionics space survived for the pilots to make it. I can see why the rescue teams deemed it a pile of junk.
This man and crew are truly legendary there are some amazing pilots in the world but what this crew did I doubt many others could've did it (Landing at full speed with no brakes) and just the fact that 1 person lived is unbelievable.
Cactus 1549 was a miracle it landed. The fact anyone survived this and the plane made it to a runway is beyond that, it should have been impossible. Truly remarkable pilots and crew on board
