The jet stayed afloat while the pilots made a series of 360-degree turns to the right as it approached the airport. After the DC-10 jet suffered a catastrophic failure of its tail-mounted engine, which resulted in the loss of many flight controls, Haynes and his crew were forced to make an emergency landing at the Sioux City airport. Haynes, who passed away in a hospital in his hometown of Seattle following a brief illness, was one week shy of his 88th birthday.Īt age 57, Haynes was captain of United Airlines Flight 232, which was bound from Denver to Chicago. SIOUX CITY - Al Haynes, who piloted a crippled jumbo jet to a crash landing at Sioux Gateway Airport on July 19, 1989, helping save the lives of 184 passengers and crew, died Sunday. Al Haynes, who piloted crash-landed Flight 232 in Sioux City in 1989, dies at 87
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