Sioux city airport crash2/1/2024 ![]() ![]() ![]() Waiting to board were 285 passengers, including 52 children, whose families were taking advantage of United’s ‘Children’s Day,’ where tickets only cost a penny. In the flight deck, Captain Al Haynes, First Officer William Records and Flight Engineer Dudley Dvorak went through their various pre-departure checklists. Onboard eight cabin crew members prepared the cabin, led by veteran Chief Flight Attendant Jan Brown. Jan Brown Just Another Day At The OfficeĮarlier that day at Stapleton International Airport, Denver the United McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 sat on the blistering tarmac, ready to fly to Philadelphia via Chicago O’Hare. Her quest has been to get the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to end the practice of allowing children under the age of two to travel unsecured on a parent’s lap without a ticketed seat. She went on to relay information about her bravery and heroism that terrible day and also her tireless campaigning since the crash. So you can imagine my excitement when I received an email from the lady herself, telling me she had read my ‘Angels Of The Sky’ story and would like to speak to me. Jan has been a heroine of mine and a complete inspiration following an interview I saw with her for a TV documentary called ‘Black Box’. Onboard Flight 232 was flight attendant Jan Brown. Yet that sunny afternoon, the flight crew managed to get the crippled jet to an airport and miraculously, 185 people survived the horrendous crash. No one has ever made it safely to the ground. The incident is one of the most widely recognised crashes in the world.ĭubbed the ‘un-flyable plane’, the scenario has been recreated in flight simulators across the globe. ![]() On JUnited Airlines Flight 232 crash-landed at Sioux City Airport (SUX), Iowa. ![]()
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