The debris following the explosion damaged all two other systems. What is happening? The gauges show an immediate drop of hydraulic pressure for engine 2, which just exploded, damaging the accessory drive section of engine 2, which took out the hydraulics for the #2 system. As he explains to the controller at Minneapolis Center, there is no hydraulic fluid, which means no elevator control, little aileron control, and steering can only be done by changing the throttles of engines 1 and 3. Haynes realizes he has very marginal control over the aircraft. In the Sioux City Tower: Supervisor Zubinski and Trainee Porter (Tom Everett and Tom O'Brien)Ĭapt. Just as a flight attendant (Ayukoe Graham) pops in the cockpit with the food trays, a large explosion is heard and the plane is heavily shaken and almost out of control. After the aircraft reaches its cruising altitude of 37,000 feet, the Captain talks to the passengers over the P.A. Al Haynes (Charlton Heston) flies the aircraft, assisted by First Officer William Records (Carmen Argenziano), and Second Officer Dudley Dvorak (Bruce McGill). Two years later, United Airlines flight 232, a DC-10, is taxiing to the active runway at Denver Stapleton Airport at 2:09PM Central Daylight Time (CDT), for the flight to Chicago. The two agree to leave their differences aside and work as a team. We then see Brown approaching Hathaway in an attempt to get better cooperation from him. The safety drill, even if showcased by the media as passing with “flying colors”, shows that without proper communication and cooperation, evacuating 300 dead and injured would take over 4 hours. Gary Brown (Richard Thomas), at the head of a multi-resource rescue comitee, has trouble bringing all the members together, especially a key player, fire chief Jim Hathaway (James Coburn).
This is all one of the numerous safety drills at the Sioux Gateway Airport in Sioux City, Iowa. Many children lying unconscious on the grass, fire trucks, ambulances, paramedics, all kinds of rescuers and… a burning school bus. The movie starts with what seems to be the air disaster already. This is A Thousand Heroes, also known as Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232. This is the story of a city fully prepared for any disaster, a commercial airliner which lost all hydraulic systems, an experienced Captain, with almost 300 people on board… brought together on a beautiful day, July 19, 1989. Airplane crash drill, with burning school bus posing as wreckage
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