American Airlines provided a wonderful backdrop to the media event with American Flags adorning the corridor leading up to the gate and pictures depicting scenes of AA support for our troups and Veterans
When it comes to airplanes and pilots, mainstream journalism, like Hollywood, usually gets it wrong. Movies we can forgive. The press, however, we hold to a much higher standard.
On July 19, 1989 an engine explosion left United 232 with no hydraulics and no controls, leading to a crash landing where many of the passengers survived. Now 25 years later we look back at this extraordinary accident and exami...