This is an incredible piece of archive footage. It’s hard to believe this is that exact aircraft. Everyone is probably thinking wow these people are lucky, which they absolutely are, but think about how many people were on this plane during the 15 month duration since this flight. Scary knowing that there is a fatigue that had been growing for years and would reach it’s breaking point not too far in the future around Engine #2 during this video. Even though the DC-10 had a tough history, it was an incredible series of aircraft. All I see are those stupid RUclips shorts defaming this aircraft because it had very unfortunate crashes under its belt. Luckily the 90’s were much kinder to the DC-10, and many DC-10’s were working for great airlines before being retired. Thank you for posting this!
Yeah you can imagine my shock when I pulled the tape and saw the registration. Pretty shocking. I'm just glad the tape survived all these years and was converted successfully. Now the video footage can live forever.
OMG that's the Sioux City accident aircraft?? Geez, I remember seeing the video on the news right after it occurred. This video is amazing and I wish I had video of my flights across the Atlantic in the 70s and 80s. Lufthansa flew the DC-10-30s. Thank you for posting this!
My heart sank when I saw the tail number in the description. That is something. To think the fatigue crack in the no.2 engine could have been there during this flight. Great video - the DC10 was such an amazing airplane.
That fatigue crack definitely was there. The manufacturing flaw was there since the early 1970s when the fan disk was made. It was a ticking time-bomb for 18 years...
@@A3FIVE0 Really more than that the DC-10 lacked the redundancy needed in its hydraulic systems so when the failure happened the airplane was not able to fly safely .
@@TWA727 Cables ran thru the floor on Death Cruser, thats why On american and turkish airlines incidents pitch control was lost when floors collapsed. "When the door blew off, the primary as well as both sets of backup control cables that ran beneath the section of floor that blew out were completely severed, destroying the pilots' ability to control the plane's elevators, rudder, and number two engine. The flight data recorder showed that the throttle for engine two snapped shut when the door failed.[9]: 26 The loss of control of these key components resulted in the pilots losing control of the aircraft entirely. " en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Airlines_Flight_981
Wow! It’s like stepping back in time watching this. Interesting that this was UAL 232 aircraft. Certainly a day we’ll not forget. Thank you for sharing.
Is this the flight where the door came off and the floor cave in causing instant depressurization of the plane causing it to crash I believe I seen this on a video
I visited the museum last year at the airport that this crashed near. I’m impressed you have this video and this is amazing from early on before cellphones.
Thanks! Yeah lugging a full size camcorder through the airport drew a lot of strange looks from people, security and the flight crew. Everyone thought it was odd I wanted to film an airplane wing. Filming on the left side of the plane was easier because the viewfinder was mounted to the left so you could rest the camera on your shoulder. However, filming on the right side of the plane meant resting the camcorder on your lap and leaning over the whole thing to see what your filming.
Unlike TWA at the time, airlines such as United and American told passengers over the PA system to turn off all electrical devices until the plane took off or landed. So, it's good that you were able to use your rather large video camera to make this video without any consequences. Thanks for sharing!
Yeah it wasn't easy having a full size camcorder in your lap. My head was on a swivel looking around to make sure no FA's walked by. I edited out a lot of footage of quickly lowering the camera to the floor and back to the window. I'm glad I was able to capture the footage that I got.
classic video! Thanks for sharing the old liveries and fleet. ORD still looks the same. (sort of ) Back in the day when United had Channel 9 in the seats ( Live ATC to follow along)
Thanks for watching. You see videos today of people walking around the strip and recording. I also have strip recordings walking around back from the late '80's of the Dunes hotel which is now the Bellagio, no overhead walkways, and cars built like tanks driving around.
On july 19, 1989 Denny Fitch was asked to look out the wings to see if anything was moving. Standing in the middle he could see out to both wings and observed both inboard ailerons sticking up.
Never got to fly the DC-10. Thanks for this upload! Scary thought that you were flying in N1819U! This means the fractured disk that gave way in the No.2 engine that day was on your flight, spinning at vast RPMs, with the fracture slowly getting bigger. Just wow! And yup, the one passenger that thinks the instructions and rules don't apply to them stands up literally as the whole plane is being told to stay seated. Some things NEVER change.
Yeah looking back on it, the whole thing is surreal. That fan disc was spinning away right behind us and didn't have a care in the world back then. Thanks for watching!
Ever been on a flight to China? This is normal over there. When I flew from HND to PVG people got up in the aisle getting stuff from the overhead lockers while the plane was still slowing down on the RUNWAY! Incredible.
Scott T, Thanks for uploading this! To see Las Vegas/Henderson in its infancy is such a gem. I vaguely remember Las Vegas in the early 90’s (‘91 & ‘92) It’s so special to see how far it’s come. This video is gold for aviation heads as well as southern Nevadans
@@Scott_T_Actually recently some of the new Boeing 737 Max8s have played music through the cabin speakers during the boarding process. I heard that on a Southwest Airlines flight from Manchester to Baltimore
My brother and I had a friend on 232 that did not survive, and I was on that flight, though the number had changed just two days after the accident, DEN-ORD enroute to YYZ. Aircraft on my flight was N1811U, this video brought it all back....
The Saul Bass livery was in my opinion the best livery in the history of United Airlines. Im lucky to grow up in the era of no smoking because I couldn't imagine being on an airplane at that time surrounded by people smoking cigarettes.
Yeah it was always interesting that smoking ended at row 21. The smoke lofting throughout the cabin didn't pay attention to those rules :) But yeah, the plane had a distinct smell when you boarded. I always felt sorry for the cabin crew who had to put up with the smell. Back then the filtration system couldn't keep up if you had 30+ people all smoking at the same time.
It wasn't aa bad as u would've thought because the entire air was recirculated every 3 or 4 minutes now it's every 7 minutes I think. Now if you sat in the smoking section or near it was Awful, as soon as u reached cruising altitude and the no smoking sign chimed off a huge plume of smoke went up lol. Half of the population smoked so everywhere u went u could smoke even in hospitals lol. I was happy when it was banned from airplanes in 1990 and then from restaurants several years later.
This is extraordinary, both for being that very aircraft and in knowing now what caused the accident. This would have been a very ordinary flight that fortunately, ended as expected. It would have felt much the same, the day of the accident until all hell broke loose. Never cease being grateful for every ordinary day.
Honestly, the tapes were in a box for the last 30+ years. I finally pulled them down and reviewed them, uploading the historic content. Yes, I wish I did this much earlier.
@@Scott_T_ footage of N1819U that between UA232 and just a few months ago, no one realised existed, incredible. Glad the tapes survived that long and thank you so much for uploading after all this time. I'm 28 but became interested in aviation at 13, UA232 was one of the first accidents that I studied, around that age.
Imagine this fact, you were flying in this airplane with that defective fan disc that had been installed in that center engine since the aircraft was built. and that little anomaly In that metal Progressed little by little until The crack made the fan disk failed. That little anomaly in that disc went undetected for many years.
Especially how back then you had the big pull down movie screen projectors at the front of the cabins instead of individual entertainment screens. Also you hear a lot more chatter and socialization among the passengers (before the days of iPads, iPhones and social media)
I flew on a United DC-10 that year as well from LAX to ORD. I don’t know if it was the exact plane from U232-probably not. Commercial aviation had to learn the hard way that when intake fans come apart, they can wreak havoc on aircraft systems. Anyway, awesome video. Thanks for uploading it.
Yeah I'm sure it's due to the video quality. We're so used to everything being in HD today that anything that isn't HD seems like it is from much further back in time. Thanks for watching.
I remember i was at work in Denver just moved from illinois i was 23 i had my headphones on listening koa radio when breaking news about flight 232 the dc-10 one of the koa reporters was on that flight i think his name was jerry schemmel later became the voice of the colorado rockies .but listening to it on that radio was intense
Quite frightening it was a little over a year after you recorded this it would be involved in one of the most notorious air crashes, but to also think the fan blade in the second engine still had that crack in it at this point. I flew back from Newark on the same American A300 that crashed over Queens in April 2001, I know it's just a plane but it almost seems weird.
I was in LI on business the day the AA plane crashed in Queens and remember seeing the smoke from the accident. However, this UA bird was already starting to crack at this point. Pretty scarry to think about.
That wasn’t the plane. It was an idiot who started stabbing the rudder in response to turbulence. The plane was just fine. There is a warning sign in the cockpit for lesser trained pilots to follow in this situation. My 17 year old was a pilot at 16 and is in shock every time he’s looked at this crash video. The people on this plane just hit a priceless lottery and survived
I am in shock that this footage exists. Thank you for taking this video aboard this ill-fated aircraft. I have to ask, though, how do you know this was, in fact, N1819U? Did you keep a log of tail numbers of aircraft you flew on or something like that?
Great question. Yes, I kept a notebook of the date, tail number and gates we departed from and arrived in. The notebook was in the bin with the tapes and when I saw it was N1819U I literally gasped and dropped the notebook in shock.
Very amazing video. Me only critique, is that i wish you would have filmed the inside of the plane and also the seats, and the meals. Like the other travel channels.
Thanks for watching! Yeah, trust me, I wish I would have filmed more of the interior of the plane and the placard above the boarding door showing the N1819U registration panel. Back then I was more worried about people complaining I had a huge video recorder at my seat filming the flight.
@@Scott_T_ I apologize. That was before my time, lol and I forgot about those things. Makes sense now. Since I was born in 2005 every thing has been so mobile. You still did a great job, I now understand why these videos of the old flights in iconic planes are so rare. It was awesome coming across your video, because I really love airplane videos and especially love the DC-10 and L-1011. My Dad flew on them a few times and tells me about how cool they were.
I was born in the early 70s so from my life experience everything is pretty much the same now as it was in 1989 except obviously computer technology, internet and smartphones. Cars are more reliable and last much longer although more expensive. The air is cleaner especially in big cities and airplanes are much quiter lol. One thing that had changed is the interaction with people. People don't talk to each other as much and seem unhappy. Social media is a plague in my opinion. Hopefully things will get better in regards to thatò
@@Jeff-sp7bg thank you for your insight. I was just talking to my dad about your comment and he said everything you said was exactly spot on. He had new cars that would break down all time in the 70’s and 80’s. He also agrees with your points on how social interaction has changed and social media being a big downfall for that.
I worked in the cabins of the -10 / 10 and 30, when we had a bar in First Class. It was a wonderful experience. We used to call the DC-10s Tail-Shakers, because they yawwed many times inflight. I also worked on the TWA L1011s. They were a far better flying aircraft. Solid. My next door neighbor at the time, was lost on 232. That was tuff to handle for awhile.
@@Scott_T_ no worries and thanks for sharing! I loved traveling on UA DC-10s growing up! We had so many fly out of gate D5 at KPHL my favorite being UA99 heavy with their ocean to ocean service to KLAX as it was fun visiting family out on the west coast. I also had the privilege of flying on UA 747-200, 300, and the 400 series (when they were brand new) in F to NRT, SIN, PEK, and HKG as my grandfather was salesman with territories in the far east and with the generous mileage plus program back in the 80s and 90s he was able to show us around multiple times all up front! What a treat! I’ll never forget the great times on UA back in the day.
Hard to believe,that this was the very aircraft that crash landed in Sioux City. I actually went to a warehouse on the north side of Sioux Gateway Airport back in 2016,and the folks there remember that accident like it was yesterday. I was living in Illinois 30 minutes west of O’Hare when the news was reporting the plane had crashed landed,with video showing the infamous “cartwheel”! All because of a manufacturing defect in the titanium disc. United,McDonnell Douglas, the Alcoa Corporation (the disc manufacturer) were all found liable for the accident. The final lawsuits were settled just before the events of 9/11.
You can imagine my shock when I pulled the flight log notebook from the bin of tapes and saw the registration number. Thanks for providing the additional bit of history.
@@Scott_T_ Don't mention it. Something like that can give anyone the case of the heebie-jeebies! The plane was scheduled to stopover at O'Hare with it's final destination being at Philadelphia. The disc failed when the plane was flying near Mason City, Iowa,the remnants of it was found in a backyard by a couple in Ada, Iowa!
This was back in 1988. They weren't a thing back then so you can imagine the strange looks I got from people when I carried a large camera on the plane.
Everyone is talking about the aircraft, which is almost surreal. But im over here seeing a barren landscape in Vegas! The airport is surrounded by city today.
I was thinking about that and about posting in some historical Vegas FB & IG pages so people can see the barren landscape. I also have a video I'm working on walking around Flamingo & LBVD of the Dunes hotel and surrounding area. It needs some serious editing first.
I remember listening flight 232 on koa radio in denver while at work and remember in 8th grade reading the chicago tribune about flight 191 in 1979 .that ironic pic of it horrible..but i love everything about aviation
I love to fly but would avoid a DC-10 like a Russian airliner ...A truly rushed to the market place inferior design ....TRI-STAR ALL THE WAY ...BTW my mom's boyfriend growing up was the first CNC machinist ever trained at Mc Donald Douglass in St.louis , and yes I come from an informed aviation background ...
As a (young) passenger, I enjoyed the cabin of the DC-10 as it was quite roomy and seats were comfortable. However, behind the scenes I can imagine there were quite a few issues going on. Thanks for watching.
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This is an incredible piece of archive footage. It’s hard to believe this is that exact aircraft.
Everyone is probably thinking wow these people are lucky, which they absolutely are, but think about how many people were on this plane during the 15 month duration since this flight. Scary knowing that there is a fatigue that had been growing for years and would reach it’s breaking point not too far in the future around Engine #2 during this video.
Even though the DC-10 had a tough history, it was an incredible series of aircraft. All I see are those stupid RUclips shorts defaming this aircraft because it had very unfortunate crashes under its belt. Luckily the 90’s were much kinder to the DC-10, and many DC-10’s were working for great airlines before being retired.
Thank you for posting this!
Yeah you can imagine my shock when I pulled the tape and saw the registration. Pretty shocking. I'm just glad the tape survived all these years and was converted successfully. Now the video footage can live forever.
@@Scott_T_im just glad you survived the flight as the crack was of course advancing with every cycle
OMG that's the Sioux City accident aircraft?? Geez, I remember seeing the video on the news right after it occurred. This video is amazing and I wish I had video of my flights across the Atlantic in the 70s and 80s. Lufthansa flew the DC-10-30s. Thank you for posting this!
Yeah you can imaging my surprise when I pulled the original tape and saw the tail number. I was quite shocked. Thanks for watching.
@@Scott_T_ I flew on the PamAm 747 blown up over Lockerbie in 1986.
Wow. The actual 232 accident aircraft. Unreal.
Yup, it's a piece of history.
My heart sank when I saw the tail number in the description. That is something. To think the fatigue crack in the no.2 engine could have been there during this flight. Great video - the DC10 was such an amazing airplane.
That fatigue crack definitely was there. The manufacturing flaw was there since the early 1970s when the fan disk was made. It was a ticking time-bomb for 18 years...
Yeah I was in shock when I looked at the notebook where I kept the tail numbers of the planes in the videos. Hard to believe.
@@A3FIVE0 Really more than that the DC-10 lacked the redundancy needed in its hydraulic systems so when the failure happened the airplane was not able to fly safely .
@@TWA727 Cables ran thru the floor on Death Cruser, thats why On american and turkish airlines incidents pitch control was lost when floors collapsed. "When the door blew off, the primary as well as both sets of backup control cables that ran beneath the section of floor that blew out were completely severed, destroying the pilots' ability to control the plane's elevators, rudder, and number two engine. The flight data recorder showed that the throttle for engine two snapped shut when the door failed.[9]: 26 The loss of control of these key components resulted in the pilots losing control of the aircraft entirely. " en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Airlines_Flight_981
Wow! It’s like stepping back in time watching this. Interesting that this was UAL 232 aircraft. Certainly a day we’ll not forget. Thank you for sharing.
Yeah I was in shock when I pulled out my log book and saw I wrote down the UA 232 tail number for this video.
I love these types of videos with the old classic airliners.
Yeah so do I. Unfortunately, there's only so many that exist and even fewer converted and uploaded to RUclips.
amazing this became flight 232 that crashed in a short time.
Talk about historic value!
Wow! Crazy.
Yeah you can imagine my surprise when I pulled the log book from my tapes and realized the aircraft registration. I was in shock.
Is this the flight where the door came off and the floor cave in causing instant depressurization of the plane causing it to crash I believe I seen this on a video
@@Eric-xu1mzthat was a Turkish flight. One of the highest death tolls ever
I visited the museum last year at the airport that this crashed near. I’m impressed you have this video and this is amazing from early on before cellphones.
Thanks! Yeah lugging a full size camcorder through the airport drew a lot of strange looks from people, security and the flight crew. Everyone thought it was odd I wanted to film an airplane wing. Filming on the left side of the plane was easier because the viewfinder was mounted to the left so you could rest the camera on your shoulder. However, filming on the right side of the plane meant resting the camcorder on your lap and leaning over the whole thing to see what your filming.
Nice insight to how you did this@@Scott_T_!
Although people recorded flights all the time with camcorders especially as they got smaller
Unlike TWA at the time, airlines such as United and American told passengers over the PA system to turn off all electrical devices until the plane took off or landed. So, it's good that you were able to use your rather large video camera to make this video without any consequences. Thanks for sharing!
Yeah it wasn't easy having a full size camcorder in your lap. My head was on a swivel looking around to make sure no FA's walked by. I edited out a lot of footage of quickly lowering the camera to the floor and back to the window. I'm glad I was able to capture the footage that I got.
classic video! Thanks for sharing the old liveries and fleet. ORD still looks the same. (sort of ) Back in the day when United had Channel 9 in the seats ( Live ATC to follow along)
Thanks for watching!
The good old days. When you could fly a heavy within the contiguous us. I flew a UA DC-10, SEA-HNL back in 1983.
Yes! It is hard to find heavy jets that fly domestic these days, but there are still a few left. Thanks for watching!
There’s lots of heavies that fly domestic. 777s, 767s, A330s….
Great video! As a Vegas resident for the last 10 years and being a pilot based here, it’s so cool to see how much has changed .
Thanks for watching. You see videos today of people walking around the strip and recording. I also have strip recordings walking around back from the late '80's of the Dunes hotel which is now the Bellagio, no overhead walkways, and cars built like tanks driving around.
That was the plane that operated UAL 232. If only those kids knew that they just escaped death.😳😳😳😬😬
The fan disc in the #2 engine was slowly cracking apart at the time due to fatigue
Yup! Turley scarry now that I think back about it. Thanks for watching!
Thank you! Phenomenal work.
Glad you liked it!
Amazing! I wish these planes still flew
I miss flying the DC-10s back in 1999 thru 2000. Wow, amazing memories on my part thoughts!!!😊
@@LMays-cu2hp Yeah, planes now are basically flying computers
Yes, I hear about the computer part of these newer aircraft!!
I do too! The sounds, the smells of the aircraft, the entire experience can't be replicated anymore.
I was very young when they stopped being the norm.
On july 19, 1989 Denny Fitch was asked to look out the wings to see if anything was moving. Standing in the middle he could see out to both wings and observed both inboard ailerons sticking up.
Yeah it is pretty eerie to think that's the same plane.
Never got to fly the DC-10. Thanks for this upload! Scary thought that you were flying in N1819U! This means the fractured disk that gave way in the No.2 engine that day was on your flight, spinning at vast RPMs, with the fracture slowly getting bigger. Just wow!
And yup, the one passenger that thinks the instructions and rules don't apply to them stands up literally as the whole plane is being told to stay seated. Some things NEVER change.
Yeah looking back on it, the whole thing is surreal. That fan disc was spinning away right behind us and didn't have a care in the world back then. Thanks for watching!
13:06 "Please remain seated. Please remain seated. Ma'am, please sit down!" 😂
Yeah that was funny, I'm not sure why she thought she could get up when we were still moving.
Ever been on a flight to China? This is normal over there. When I flew from HND to PVG people got up in the aisle getting stuff from the overhead lockers while the plane was still slowing down on the RUNWAY! Incredible.
Nostalgia OVERLOAD! Thanks so much for the upoad!!
My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it!
Scott T,
Thanks for uploading this! To see Las Vegas/Henderson in its infancy is such a gem. I vaguely remember Las Vegas in the early 90’s (‘91 & ‘92)
It’s so special to see how far it’s come. This video is gold for aviation heads as well as southern Nevadans
Thank you so much for sharing some great memories!!!!😊😊
Wow, I flew on TWA's L1011 to Las Vegas back in 1994 to a family members wedding!! Some very nice memories!! I miss those three engine aircraft!!!😊
Really good quality for 1988. And that little bit about the headphone rental price (3:13)…it’d cost a little over $10 today after inflation.
Yeah and those were the old dual plug tubes that basically carried sound from the armrest to your ears.
True, N1819U ,uncanny.
Yeah I was quite surprised when I reviewed my notes and realized the tail number.
5:25 Relaxing Classical Music playing through the DC-10 cabin speakers
Yeah you don't hear that anymore.
@@Scott_T_Actually recently some of the new Boeing 737 Max8s have played music through the cabin speakers during the boarding process. I heard that on a Southwest Airlines flight from Manchester to Baltimore
My brother and I had a friend on 232 that did not survive, and I was on that flight, though the number had changed just two days after the accident, DEN-ORD enroute to YYZ. Aircraft on my flight was N1811U, this video brought it all back....
Sorry to hear about your friend. I was quite shocked when I looked back at the plane I was on. Thanks for watching.
RIP Denny Fitch.
Yup - Denny was taken from us at too young an age.
The Saul Bass livery was in my opinion the best livery in the history of United Airlines. Im lucky to grow up in the era of no smoking because I couldn't imagine being on an airplane at that time surrounded by people smoking cigarettes.
Yeah it was always interesting that smoking ended at row 21. The smoke lofting throughout the cabin didn't pay attention to those rules :) But yeah, the plane had a distinct smell when you boarded. I always felt sorry for the cabin crew who had to put up with the smell. Back then the filtration system couldn't keep up if you had 30+ people all smoking at the same time.
It wasn't aa bad as u would've thought because the entire air was recirculated every 3 or 4 minutes now it's every 7 minutes I think. Now if you sat in the smoking section or near it was Awful, as soon as u reached cruising altitude and the no smoking sign chimed off a huge plume of smoke went up lol. Half of the population smoked so everywhere u went u could smoke even in hospitals lol. I was happy when it was banned from airplanes in 1990 and then from restaurants several years later.
Wow, the UA232 aircraft! Must be very eerie to fly on an aircraft that later crashed. May the victims rest in peace.
This is extraordinary, both for being that very aircraft and in knowing now what caused the accident. This would have been a very ordinary flight that fortunately, ended as expected. It would have felt much the same, the day of the accident until all hell broke loose. Never cease being grateful for every ordinary day.
Yeah I was quite startled when I looked back to the log book and found out what aircraft I was flying on. Thanks for watching.
This is a valuable and historic video due to the aircraft. What made you wait to upload it?
Honestly, the tapes were in a box for the last 30+ years. I finally pulled them down and reviewed them, uploading the historic content. Yes, I wish I did this much earlier.
@@Scott_T_ footage of N1819U that between UA232 and just a few months ago, no one realised existed, incredible. Glad the tapes survived that long and thank you so much for uploading after all this time. I'm 28 but became interested in aviation at 13, UA232 was one of the first accidents that I studied, around that age.
12:31 foreshadowing be like
Yeah kind of eerie. Thanks for watching.
Imagine this fact, you were flying in this airplane with that defective fan disc that had been installed in that center engine since the aircraft was built. and that little anomaly In that metal Progressed little by little until The crack made the fan disk failed. That little anomaly in that disc went undetected for many years.
Yeah it is a scary realization.
Thanks for the upload. The amount of nostalgia in this video!!
Especially how back then you had the big pull down movie screen projectors at the front of the cabins instead of individual entertainment screens.
Also you hear a lot more chatter and socialization among the passengers (before the days of iPads, iPhones and social media)
Glad you enjoyed it!
Any more vintage flight home movies?
I flew on a United DC-10 that year as well from LAX to ORD. I don’t know if it was the exact plane from U232-probably not. Commercial aviation had to learn the hard way that when intake fans come apart, they can wreak havoc on aircraft systems. Anyway, awesome video. Thanks for uploading it.
Thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed it.
88, year I was born.
This feels before then somehow, feels like the 70s almost.
Yeah I'm sure it's due to the video quality. We're so used to everything being in HD today that anything that isn't HD seems like it is from much further back in time. Thanks for watching.
I remember i was at work in Denver just moved from illinois i was 23 i had my headphones on listening koa radio when breaking news about flight 232 the dc-10 one of the koa reporters was on that flight i think his name was jerry schemmel later became the voice of the colorado rockies .but listening to it on that radio was intense
Thanks for watching.
Quite frightening it was a little over a year after you recorded this it would be involved in one of the most notorious air crashes, but to also think the fan blade in the second engine still had that crack in it at this point. I flew back from Newark on the same American A300 that crashed over Queens in April 2001, I know it's just a plane but it almost seems weird.
I was in LI on business the day the AA plane crashed in Queens and remember seeing the smoke from the accident. However, this UA bird was already starting to crack at this point. Pretty scarry to think about.
That wasn’t the plane. It was an idiot who started stabbing the rudder in response to turbulence. The plane was just fine. There is a warning sign in the cockpit for lesser trained pilots to follow in this situation. My 17 year old was a pilot at 16 and is in shock every time he’s looked at this crash video. The people on this plane just hit a priceless lottery and survived
The good ol UAL 232 Accident aircraft.
I am in shock that this footage exists. Thank you for taking this video aboard this ill-fated aircraft.
I have to ask, though, how do you know this was, in fact, N1819U? Did you keep a log of tail numbers of aircraft you flew on or something like that?
Great question. Yes, I kept a notebook of the date, tail number and gates we departed from and arrived in. The notebook was in the bin with the tapes and when I saw it was N1819U I literally gasped and dropped the notebook in shock.
Very amazing video. Me only critique, is that i wish you would have filmed the inside of the plane and also the seats, and the meals. Like the other travel channels.
Thanks for watching! Yeah, trust me, I wish I would have filmed more of the interior of the plane and the placard above the boarding door showing the N1819U registration panel. Back then I was more worried about people complaining I had a huge video recorder at my seat filming the flight.
@@Scott_T_ I apologize. That was before my time, lol and I forgot about those things. Makes sense now. Since I was born in 2005 every thing has been so mobile. You still did a great job, I now understand why these videos of the old flights in iconic planes are so rare. It was awesome coming across your video, because I really love airplane videos and especially love the DC-10 and L-1011. My Dad flew on them a few times and tells me about how cool they were.
I was born in the early 70s so from my life experience everything is pretty much the same now as it was in 1989 except obviously computer technology, internet and smartphones. Cars are more reliable and last much longer although more expensive. The air is cleaner especially in big cities and airplanes are much quiter lol. One thing that had changed is the interaction with people. People don't talk to each other as much and seem unhappy. Social media is a plague in my opinion. Hopefully things will get better in regards to thatò
@@Jeff-sp7bg thank you for your insight. I was just talking to my dad about your comment and he said everything you said was exactly spot on. He had new cars that would break down all time in the 70’s and 80’s. He also agrees with your points on how social interaction has changed and social media being a big downfall for that.
I worked in the cabins of the -10 / 10 and 30, when we had a bar in First Class. It was a wonderful experience. We used to call the DC-10s Tail-Shakers, because they yawwed many times inflight. I also worked on the TWA L1011s. They were a far better flying aircraft. Solid.
My next door neighbor at the time, was lost on 232. That was tuff to handle for awhile.
This is truly incredible footage!! Any idea of what seat you were sitting in here?
Yes, this was shot from seat 32A. Thanks for watching!
That out of tune piano on the safety briefing video reminds me of my childhood as I heard this briefing many times growing up.
Yeah it does bring back great memories from a different time. Thanks for watching!
@@Scott_T_ no worries and thanks for sharing! I loved traveling on UA DC-10s growing up! We had so many fly out of gate D5 at KPHL my favorite being UA99 heavy with their ocean to ocean service to KLAX as it was fun visiting family out on the west coast.
I also had the privilege of flying on UA 747-200, 300, and the 400 series (when they were brand new) in F to NRT, SIN, PEK, and HKG as my grandfather was salesman with territories in the far east and with the generous mileage plus program back in the 80s and 90s he was able to show us around multiple times all up front! What a treat! I’ll never forget the great times on UA back in the day.
Hard to believe,that this was the very aircraft that crash landed in Sioux City. I actually went to a warehouse on the north side of Sioux Gateway Airport back in 2016,and the folks there remember that accident like it was yesterday. I was living in Illinois 30 minutes west of O’Hare when the news was reporting the plane had crashed landed,with video showing the infamous “cartwheel”!
All because of a manufacturing defect in the titanium disc. United,McDonnell Douglas, the Alcoa Corporation (the disc manufacturer) were all found liable for the accident. The final lawsuits were settled just before the events of 9/11.
You can imagine my shock when I pulled the flight log notebook from the bin of tapes and saw the registration number. Thanks for providing the additional bit of history.
@@Scott_T_ Don't mention it. Something like that can give anyone the case of the heebie-jeebies! The plane was scheduled to stopover at O'Hare with it's final destination being at Philadelphia. The disc failed when the plane was flying near Mason City, Iowa,the remnants of it was found in a backyard by a couple in Ada, Iowa!
36 years later people are watching this video.
Yup - it is a piece of history.
This is pretty cool I didn't know full flight videos were a thing what year was this filmed?
This was back in 1988. They weren't a thing back then so you can imagine the strange looks I got from people when I carried a large camera on the plane.
Everyone is talking about the aircraft, which is almost surreal. But im over here seeing a barren landscape in Vegas! The airport is surrounded by city today.
I was thinking about that and about posting in some historical Vegas FB & IG pages so people can see the barren landscape. I also have a video I'm working on walking around Flamingo & LBVD of the Dunes hotel and surrounding area. It needs some serious editing first.
Love seeing vintage footage
Using the big Channel 7 eyewitness news camera!!!! I remember those camcorders
Yeah it was big and bulky and I got a lot of strange looks from people, but that camera did the job.
Good Morning Vietnam being played as the movie is certainly a choice since it’s rated R. 😂 The 80’s was just a different time.
I remember listening flight 232 on koa radio in denver while at work and remember in 8th grade reading the chicago tribune about flight 191 in 1979 .that ironic pic of it horrible..but i love everything about aviation
Thanks for watching.
did you actually film this like where you actually in the aircraft
Yes, I was actually in the aircraft actually filming this.
Immediately into clouds
Yeah it was a really foggy day we departed. Glad we got out on time. Thanks for watching.
A thousand heroesCrash landing the rescue of flight two thirty two
Charlton Heston as captain haynes 1992 t v film
Was a great documentary.
“DEATH CRUISER 10”!
lol never heard of it that way but it is true.
Vegas was so empty back then 😂
You couldn't pay me enough to hop on a DC-10.
Yeah with what we know now, I probably wouldn't go on another one again even if I had the choice.
To be fair, only 2 accidents actually were the aircraft's fault. (Cargo doors) Everything else - maintenance issues and pilot errors
I love to fly but would avoid a DC-10 like a Russian airliner ...A truly rushed to the market place inferior design ....TRI-STAR ALL THE WAY ...BTW my mom's boyfriend growing up was the first CNC machinist ever trained at Mc Donald Douglass in St.louis , and yes I come from an informed aviation background ...
Designed and built in less than 9 months to compete with the sophisticated L1011
As a (young) passenger, I enjoyed the cabin of the DC-10 as it was quite roomy and seats were comfortable. However, behind the scenes I can imagine there were quite a few issues going on. Thanks for watching.
@@Scott_T_ The DC-10 even managed to bring down the Concorde ending Super sonic air travel .
@@mollyhatchet7075 Ironic.
LOL. The DC-10/MD-11 outsold your beloved L1011 by more than 2 to 1. Tell me more about the wonderful L1011.