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Alfred Haynes, Pilot Who Saved Scores in Crash Landing, Dies at 87

In 1989, he defied the odds in bringing his crippled United Flight 232 in for a crash landing; more than 180 people survived.

By Neil Genzlinger

 

Alfred Haynes, a pilot who led a United Airlines crew through an extraordinary display of improvised emergency flying that guided a crippled jet to a crash landing in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1989, saving more than 180 of the 296 people on board, died on Aug. 25 in Tacoma, Wash. He was 87.

 

His son Dan posted news of his death on Facebook.

 

Mr. Haynes was captain of United Flight 232 on July 19 when, a little more than an hour into its flight to Chicago from Denver, one of its three engines — the one mounted in the tail — exploded. What happened next has become part of aviation lore, an example of calm and quick thinking under the most extreme pressure.

 

“Most people know Chesley Sullenberger,” said Spencer Bailey, a Flight 232 survivor, referring to the pilot who successfully landed a US Airways jet on the Hudson River in 2009, “but the feat Captain Haynes pulled off 30 years ago was truly a miracle, too.”

 

Full story: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/24/us/alfred-haynes-dead.html

 

-- The New York Times 2019-09-26

[pegman]

 A true aviation hero. 

[taichiplanet]

Haynes was cool as a cucumber. No flight controls except adjusting the 2 remaining engines for speed. 40 minutes later as they reached the airport

Sioux City Approach: "United Two Thirty-Two Heavy, the wind's currently three six zero at one one; three sixty at eleven. You're cleared to land on any runway".
Haynes: [laughter] "Roger". [laughter] "You want to be particular and make it a runway, huh?"

Edited September 26, 2019 by taichiplanet

[Tug]

Rip sir skies

[evadgib]

Hats off to him.

[Basil B]

Died twice, first time given up for dead when the cockpit was embedded so deep in the ground it was thought no one was alive in there let alone all three pilots.

 

RIP