Pilot Hero Al Haynes at a press conference after the emergency landing

Photos of UAL 232 Initial Touchdown Area

(FAA)

Karen:

United Airlines Flight 232

Episode sources:

1. “Alfred, Jan & Jerry/Ebony” (I Survived) 2009

2. “Impossible Landing” (Season 3 Episode 4) Smithsonian)

3. “Former United Airlines pilot Al Haynes, who saved 184 lives during 1989 Iowa crash landing, has died” (Fox 43/CNN Wire) 2019

4. “Fields of Fortune: The crash of United Airlines flight 232” by Krya Dempsey (Medium) 2021

5. “The plane crash that changed this Colorado Rockies broadcaster’s life” by Noah Yingling (RoxPile) 2022

6. “35 years ago: How a United Airlines crew landed an ‘unflyable’ DC-10” by Luke Peters (Aerotime) 2024

7. “30 years later, Rockies broadcaster Jerry Schemmel and other Flight 232 crash survivors can only remember” by Nick Groke (New York Times) 2019

8. “Pilot who helped crash-land jet in 1989 dies” by Don Babwin (NBC News) 2012

9. “The Crash of United Flight 232” by Laurence Gonzales (Popular Mechanics) 2017

10. “Stapleton International Airport” (Wikipedia)

11. “Infrastructure Disaster Special Edition: Revisiting United Flight 232” by Mitchell Simmons (GTSC) 2024

12. “Continental Basketball Association” (Bloomberg)

13. “25 Years After Horrific Crash, Memories Surface And Crusades Continue” (CBS News) 2014

14. “Test pilot says safe landing of United jet was impossible” by John Petrson (UPI) 1989

15. “Flight attendants renew call to ban lap babies” by Yi-Jin YU (ABC News) 2013

16. “Former flight attendant Jan Brown on lifelong mission to ban lap infants on airplanes” (ABC News Australia) 2019

17. “Tragic loss occurred years after crash” by Tammy Real-McKeighan (The Fremont Tribune) 2022

18. “IATA Releases 2024 Safety Report” (International Air Transport Association) 2025

Georgia:

World War II hero dog Smoky

Episode sources:

1. Yorkie Doodle Dandy, by William Wynne

2. “Veteran's Story: The tale of Bill Wynne and 'Smoky the War Dog'” by Tim Clark (Mansfield News Journal, August 6, 2018)

3. “The story of a pint-size canine who served America” by Ann Burch (The Tampa Bay Times, May 7, 2001)

4. “1380 Dogs from All Over World Entered in City’s Show” by Maxwell Riddle (The Cleveland Press, March 6, 1946)

5. “This dog of war was found in a foxhole, then helped build an airfield in the Philippines” (The Times Picayune, June 29, 2020)

6. “Bill Wynne (1922–2021), photojournalist who trained WWII hero dog Smoky” by Linnea Crowther (Legacy, April 22, 2021)

7. “Smoky” (Wikipedia)

Smoky: World War II Hero Dog

(William A. Wynne)

Smoky the WWII Hero Dog Monument in Cleveland, OH

(Franck Fotos / Alamy)

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