Normal would not last long. United 232 was Chicago-bound from Denver with 296 passengers aboard. At 37,000 feet over Iowa, a fan disk in 232's tail-mount engine broke apart.

On the 19th of July 1989 a United Airlines DC10 suffered a catastrophic engine failure to its tail mounted engine (eng nr2). The engine failure managed to damage all three hydraulic systems on the ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Saturday, July 19, 2025, marks thirty-six years since the crash of Flight 232 in 1989. To commemorate the tragedy, local firefighters and law enforcement took to social media ...

United flight 232 out of Denver was on its way to Chicago this afternoon. *** direct flight with no stops in Iowa. My first impression was that we were hit by another plane. The plane was jolted ...

The Delta flight landed upside-down in a shocking crash. AP Brown stopped that mother from climbing back into the wreckage of United Flight 232 after it came to rest upside down in a cornfield.

The sculpture called “Spirit of Siouxland” portrays three-year-old Spencer Bailey being rescued by the late Lt. Colonel Dennis Nielsen of Sioux City’s 185th Tactical Fighter Group.

At the end of the service, the people attending the reunion signed a large white banner with a logo of Sioux City with the date of the Flight 232 crash on the left, and on the right a large ...

The chaos of Flight 232 started around 3 p.m. when the jet was over Alta, Iowa. An explosion sliced hydraulic lines, making steering almost impossible.