Mayday

Impossible Landing (United Airlines Flight 232)

Aired Apr 13, 2012 · 1:00 PM ET · 45 min

On 19 July 1989, United Airlines Flight 232's DC-10 was crippled when an engine explodes causing serious damage to the vital hydraulics system causing the plane to go out of control. The plane managed to land at Sioux City but the plane erupted into a fireball shortly after.