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The aircraft crashed while attempting an emergency landing with no hydraulics after an uncontained engine failure in the tail engine severed all hydraulic fluid lines. You can see in the top photo that the entire tail cone is missing along with the damage to the elevators.

Date: 19 July 1989
Airline: United Air Lines
Flight No.: 232
Aircraft: DC-10-10
Location: Sioux City, IA
Fatalities: 112:296

 

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