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Flying WITHOUT Controls! United Airlines flight 232

S1 · E8 · 12 Sep 2020

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When an engine disintegration severs every hydraulic system on United Airlines Flight 232, the crew of the DC-10 is left with almost no conventional flight controls. Petter Hörnfeldt explains how they learned to steer the crippled jet using engine thrust alone on the desperate approach to Sioux City.