Episode 67: United Airlines Flight 232

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4.2 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes when planes crash, it's due to the tiniest hidden flaw which causes incredible amounts of destruction after a series of one mishap after another. One microscopic flaw led to the failure of the tail-mounted engine on a DC-10, and the damage it caused ended with an incredible fiery crash caught on camera.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. This is Jennifer Matarise. And before I get started with the episode today, I'd just like to say a quick apology.
0:08.1	Earlier this month, I got hit with this year's terrible monster flu and was basically useless for about a week.
0:15.2	And even now, I'm still waiting for my throat to get completely better. If I sound really strange, it's because
0:22.4	every time I breathe in, I feel like I'm about to cough. So if I sound weird, that's why.
0:31.4	But the time that I was too sick to do anything put me out of the habit of my normal patterns,
0:37.4	so it's taken me a bit to get a
0:39.1	new episode researched and written to the point where I switched from one of the two request episodes
0:45.1	I still have to work on to get a little bit out of my mental rut by doing a different disaster.
0:53.2	Long story short, get your flu shot, kids.
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1:47.7	Without taking care of, thank you very much for listening, and welcome to disaster area.
1:56.5	Episode 67, United Airlines Flight 232, July 19, 1989, 111 deceased, 172 injured.
2:13.0	As much as I love a bad disaster movie, sometimes a wonderful disaster movie is what you need.
2:19.5	The movie Fearless is one such disaster movie.
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