The crack that grew for 18 years, and no one knew
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The crack that grew for 18 years, and no one knew
This episode recounts the harrowing experience of United Airlines Flight 232, where a catastrophic engine failure at 37,000 feet left the crew without any flight controls. It explores the incredible human effort to save the aircraft and the unsettling questions about how a fatal flaw went undetected for nearly two decades.
Date: July 19, 1989
Aircraft: United Airlines Flight 232 (DC-10)
Location: Denver to Chicago
Event: Tail engine explosion
Casualties: 112 fatalities
- A farmer discovered a large titanium disk from the crashed plane in her cornfield three months after the incident.
- The tail engine's stage-one fan disk had been flying for 18 years, accumulating 16,899 flight cycles.
- The NTSB determined the crack originated from a microscopic defect in the material itself, present from manufacturing.
- The aircraft lost all hydraulic pressure within seconds of the explosion, rendering all flight controls inoperable.
- Investigators found conflicting records suggesting the disk with the same serial number might have been flagged for scrapping during manufacturing.
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