United Flight 232 was supposed to be routine—until a violent explosion tore through the tail and the crew discovered they had lost every hydraulic system on the aircraft. With the controls dead and ...
[Editor's Note: NPR's Howard Berkes covered the 1989 crash landing of United Flight 232 in Sioux City, Iowa.] Long before Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger and the miracle landing on the Hudson, three ...