The captain of a crippled jet steers toward tri-state rescue-team experts waiting in Sioux City, Iowa. Release: When Flight Engineer Dudley Dvorak notices that the hydraulic quantity drops to zero, Captain Haynes asks him to turn on "backup systems", but they are also found unworkable. Haynes then states that "all three hydraulics lines at once" must have been destroyed. This exchange shows that the screenwriter misunderstands the way hydraulics work: the DC-10, like all airliners, has three different hydraulic lines (marked as red, blue and yellow), but they are used simultaneously in flight, as each of them controls different control surfaces of the aircraft - while the movie implies one of three is the main one and the other two are backup, used only when the main hydraulic line fails. (In fact, the DC-10 did not have any backup hydraulics: they are running through different parts of the airplane, so it was found improbable to have all three taken out at once with the exception of a total disintegration of the airliner; however, in case of UA232, when the turbine disc on the tailfin engine disintegrated, it ruptured shrapnel pieces all around, severing all three lines, as the red one ran just under the engine and blue and yellow lines ran through the tail fin in fairly close proximity.)
Lamont Johnson Charlton Heston James Coburn Richard Thomas Leon Russom John M. Jackson Tom O'Brien Philip Baker Hall Tom Everett Carmen Argenziano Bruce McGill Arthur Rosenberg Bill Geisslinger Steven M. Porter Stephanie Dunnam Mariangela Pino Akuyoe Graham Kenneth Stephens Judith Hart Crash Landing: The Rescue Of Flight 232 1992
Genres: Action, Drama
Country: United States
Director: Lamont Johnson
Duration: 95 Min
Year: 1992
Actors: Charlton Heston, James Coburn, Richard Thomas, Leon Russom, John M. Jackson, Tom O'Brien, Philip Baker Hall, Tom Everett, Carmen Argenziano, Bruce McGill, Arthur Rosenberg, Bill Geisslinger, Steven M. Porter, Stephanie Dunnam, Mariangela Pino, Akuyoe Graham, Kenneth Stephens, Judith Hart