Twenty-five years ago this week — July 19, 1989 — United Airlines Flight 232 from Denver to Chicago experienced extreme mechanical malfunction while at a cruising height of 37,000 feet. Its cockpit ...

With two catastrophic crashes of Boeing 737 Max 8 planes less than six months apart, that leap of faith we make every time we board an airplane has again come into sharp relief. We depend on a ...

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 plane crashed in Sioux City, erupting into a fireball and killing 112 people. The efforts of the pilot and crew saved 184. Experts said it could’ve been much worse. The plane crashed in Sioux City ...

SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Saturday will mark 25 years since one of the deadliest plane crashes ever captured on camera. United flight 232 was traveling from Denver to Chicago, when it crashed at the Sioux ...

Jerry Schemmel’s nightmare always started in the quiet after the crash, in the stillness and smoke. It went like this: He is on the ground looking for the boy on the airplane and in the cornfield. He ...

Twenty-five years ago, United Airlines Flight 232 crash-landed in Sioux City, Iowa. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Laurence Gonzales, author of the book Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival.

Saturday marks the 25th anniversary of the crash of United Airlines Flight 232 in Sioux City, Iowa. No one who witnessed the plane go down would have believed that passengers would live, but many did.

On July 19, 1989, United Airlines Flight 232, a DC-10 service, left Stapleton Airport in Denver bound for O’Hare International Airport with 296 souls on board. After a catastrophic hydraulic failure, ...

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 ...