Crash Landing The Rescue of Flight 232 BY

Also Known As: A Thousand Heroes (1992) 1000 Heroes 100 Heroes (Spanish DVD edition, reduced with 900 and with the least known actor in front) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104020/ Authentic drama of United Airlines flight 232 from Denver to Chicago. The DC-10 crashed during an emergency landing at Sioux City Gateway Airport on July 19, 1989. 184 people survived, partly thanks to the ground rescue workers who had 40 minutes to prepare for the event. The local community had also previously performed a large-scale emergency drill for such an event. One of my favourites since 1996, and it is a scandal that this exciting film with such an experienced cast has not been published on DVD in the U.S. However, I incidentally found out that it has been released on DVD in Spain, and immediately bought a copy. The picture quality of this rare, old film is not great on the DVD, but the story all the more exciting. The film even runs a little unevenly in the very beginning. DVDrip, original color fullscreen and mono sound. P.S. for the interested: The cause of the disaster was an explosion in the middle (tail) engine that severed all hydraulic lines so that all hydraulic power was lost. To avoid similar situations, the producer later installed reduction valves. The pilots managed to control the plane by applying different thrust on the remaining left and right engines. This technique was fed into flight simulators and later helped pilots in similar distress. The ill-fated DC-10 had several major crashes due to a strange combination of errors in construction (cargo door), the General Electric engines and bad maintenance routines by the airlines. I flew with the plane several times before this was known, and found it very comfortable and spacious. With its successor MD-11 which looked almost identical, McDonnell Douglas had corrected the errors, but also this plane proved to be ill-fated, especially with the Swissair Flight 111 on September 2, 1998 crashing into the ocean outside Halifax on its way from New York to Geneva. The cause of the crash was determined to be a fire caused by improper wiring of Swissair-added passenger entertainment system units. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-10 http://www.airdisaster.com/special/special-ua232.shtml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_MD-11#Accidents

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 Kuthumi (2008-05-09)

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 Kuthumi (2008-05-09)

2 more DC-10 crashes can be downloaded from

 Kuthumi (2008-05-12)

I have also uploaded another interesting airplane film:

 Kuthumi (2008-05-17)

Still another air disaster film at

 Kuthumi (2008-05-25)

Please be decent and seed! I must constantly open up seeding myself, and this delays my upload of more rare films that you might like. Do not stop if you are two or less seeders.

FTLP519 (2008-05-29)

Hi, there is a missing scene in it, do you know?
Greetings,

 Kuthumi (2008-06-15)

I have not noticed any scene missing, please identify. I first saw this film from TV in 1996 and bought the VHS from Amazon in May 2002, recorded it from a Danish TV channel in May 2004 and was happy to find this DVD edition.

FTLP519 (2008-06-24)

Hi, the missings scene are this:
(i have a spanish version with spanish language
:()
1: after the take-off there is a scene in the airplane; first you see the airplane from the ground and after that there is a little converstation in the cockpit.
2: after de loud bang they cut straigt to haynes: we cannot lose all the 3 hydraulic flued,
but orginal there is a longer version we see the flight attendent going out the cockpit.
and the first officer is going to check the damage...
Original Runtime: 1 hour 35 mn
Check the IMDB profile.

 Kuthumi (2008-06-25)

Impressive, you really must have written down the whole storyboard. As I mention above, this IS a rip from the Spanish DVD where the original English soundtrack also is kept, so you must refer to some other Spanish edition, perhaps an older VHS.
Anyhow, I don't consider those short scenes very significant.

mucky37 (2008-09-29)

Thank you for this film Kuthumi, this is not something I would be able to find in the shop or rental outlet here.
Currently 8 seeds, proving popular.

 Kuthumi (2009-04-25)

Please show your appreciation by seeding! Such rare films are getting much too demanding to seed for me, and this delays my upload of more films that you may like.

BadGirl2k9 (2009-06-11)

thanks, will seed when download completes

instantcast (2009-10-22)

I'd say the quality is more of a VHSRip rather than DVD, even if it was once released on DVD as a container.

 Kuthumi (2009-11-30)

instantcast: This is a made-for-TV movie, so the quality only reflects the original material, not the ripping. I first bought the VHS from the U.S. in May 2002 and did not think the quality was good enough to make a rip.

digimike50 (2010-08-09)

Great film. Many thanks!

bellarmine (2014-11-27)

Thanks for the upload! What a cast! They should re-master this, but it's quite watchable, I've seen far worse.
Glad there are some seeds keeping this alive, downloaded it in a few hours.
Cheers! Belllarmine