Posted on 08/26/2019 6:59:01 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
SEATTLE, WA (KTIV) – Captain Al Haynes, who has been considered a hero for his abilities during the United Airlines Flight 232 crash, died on Sunday.
Gary Brown, Woodbury County Emergency Manager, confirmed to KTIV that Haynes died in a Seattle hospital Sunday.
In July 1989, United Airlines Flight 232 crashed at Sioux City’s Sioux Gateway Airport.
It was a rare case of complete loss of control due to tail fan failure, and destruction of all hydraulic lines. Thanks to Captain Al Haynes, and his crew, Sioux Gateway Airport had a full 30 minutes to prepare for the crash landing.
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Charlton Heston played him in the movie............
Captain Al Haynes was born in Paris, Texas and raised in Dallas. He attended Texas A&M College before entering the Naval Aviation Cadet Training program in 1952. He was released from the service in 1956 after serving as a Marine Aviator. He joined United Airlines that year and served as flight engineer, first officer and captain for 35 years retiring in 1991.
Isn’t he the pilot who alternated engine thrust to bank the plane to the airport and line it up with the runway? Or am I thinking of someone else?
Who writes this stuff, and more, who edits it? It wasn't a "crash;" it was a crash landing. There is a difference.
That’s him.
Complete loss of Hydraulics when the Rear Engine blew apart.
self ping
Those passengers had 30 minutes to contemplate a crash landing and pray for their souls
RIP to a real hero.
(If we had more pilots like him today, this 737 Max thing wouldn’t be an issue)
It’s rare to lose half the lives on board and be considered a hero but he was facing truly incredible odds not to lose the entire aircraft. He was basically trying to put an uncontrollable missile on the ground.
If you see the actual news coverage of the crash, you’ll see what an amazing event this was and God’s mercy in saving so many lives.
This is weird.
Just last week I was remembering this crash.
Looked up info to remind me of the incident.
“”Isn’t he the pilot who alternated engine thrust to bank the plane to the airport and line it up with the runway? Or am I thinking of someone else?””
You are right. My husband and I had a flight operation at the time in OC, CA and we subscribed to the NTSB reports and that one (like the majority of major accidents) was very interesting. When we moved cross country, I think I kept some of those. Captain Haynes was indeed a hero. Had they not all kept their cool in the cockpit, it would have been much, much worse.
http://nymag.com/news/features/53792/
“”I thought to myself, How are we going to keep this thing in the sky? You don’t train or drill for something like this, because it’s just not supposed to happen. After a little while, we determined that by manipulating the throttles, we could keep the airplane from rolling over, and by alternating the thrust we could try to control the altitude.
Our chances of landing this plane at an airport were not very good. The plan was to keep it flying till we got close to the ground and then just ditch it in a field somewhere. Dudley made an announcement about engine failure, explaining to passengers that it would take us a little longer to get to Chicago. One passenger, a pilot named Denny Fitch, tried to calm a concerned flight attendant, explaining that the DC-10 is designed to be able to fly on only two engines. When she told him we’d lost all the hydraulics, he didn’t believe her—How had we been flying?—but he sent word that he was happy to help.
When he entered the cockpit, we had him take the throttle. Bill and I were both flying by the control wheels, which wasn’t doing any good—but we weren’t sure it wasn’t doing any good, so we weren’t going to stop. Denny stood between Bill and me and started manipulating the throttles at our requests for nose up or nose down, and experimenting with how much power to give us.””
Al Hayes was “Sully” before Sully.
He was given an impossible task and did the best than any man could. The fact that he actually listened to his crew changed the cockpit dynamics in commercial aviation.
My God that audio is the most incredible thing I’ve heard in a long time. The calm in the pilot’s voice, the humor in the most intense situation imaginable. Wow.
Controller: “You are cleared to land on any runway.”
Capt. Al Haynes: “[laughter] You want to be particular and make it a runway, huh?”
Right.
Back when I was a frequent business flyer, I always felt reassured when the flight crew sounded like they were from Texas.
Al Haynes had more control of his aircraft than the 737 Max crews did.
Then you have the Concorde with an exemplary safety record in all the years it flew crashed due to pieces of metal on the runway it picked up while taking off. They grounded the plane forever. One crash but the DC-10 continued to fly.
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