Sioux City, United 232
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Sioux City, United 232
Not sure if this has been posted before, but I just stumbled across this transcript of a speech by Capt. Haynes.
If the story as told in various documentaries is amazing, Capt. Haynes own words are something else and ultimately quite moving.
NASA
Ames Research Center
Dryden Flight Research Facility
Edwards, California
presents
The Crash of United Flight 232
by Capt. Al Haynes
If the story as told in various documentaries is amazing, Capt. Haynes own words are something else and ultimately quite moving.
NASA
Ames Research Center
Dryden Flight Research Facility
Edwards, California
presents
The Crash of United Flight 232
by Capt. Al Haynes
Last edited by paulo; 23rd December 2003 at 07:08.
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Paulo you are right, the transcript is amazing, the accident even more so.
Both Al Haynes and Denny Fitch are up there on my list of "people I'd like to meet". Their wits saved the lives of many people and they are truly heroes in my mind.
SG
Both Al Haynes and Denny Fitch are up there on my list of "people I'd like to meet". Their wits saved the lives of many people and they are truly heroes in my mind.
SG
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From: Amidst the dust and the flies, somewhere in Western Australia
Was fortunate enough to meet Al Haynes and the man was everything I had imagined, and then some. The man is extremely modest too. It was a most humbling experience and I was definitely inspired by the man.
I have now had the fortune to have met two wonderful aviators, whom also happen to be the 2 people I admire the most, Captain Al.Haynes and the now decaesed Sir Douglas Bader. two men for whom the word quit was not known.
I have now had the fortune to have met two wonderful aviators, whom also happen to be the 2 people I admire the most, Captain Al.Haynes and the now decaesed Sir Douglas Bader. two men for whom the word quit was not known.
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I met Al Haynes once (what a great man) and sat through his lecture during which he described the events leading up to Sioux. I was absolutely spellbound.
I was an usher at Douglas Bader's memorial service and ended up chatting with Enoch Powell. His opinion of Doug B remains with me as one of the most incredible pieces of character assasination I've ever heard. DBs CRM and safety awareness was not apparently that good.
I was an usher at Douglas Bader's memorial service and ended up chatting with Enoch Powell. His opinion of Doug B remains with me as one of the most incredible pieces of character assasination I've ever heard. DBs CRM and safety awareness was not apparently that good.
