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  • Beyond survival: Life's trials continued for pilot after 1989 crash (Al Haynes United Flight 232)

    05/07/2005 5:12:16 PM PDT · by A.A. Cunningham · 11 replies · 5,230+ views
    Rocky Mountain News ^ | 7 May 2005 | Ann Carnahan
    Beyond survival Life's trials continued for pilot after 1989 crash By Ann Carnahan, Rocky Mountain News May 7, 2005 Al Haynes is alone now, except for a daughter, a son and the United Airlines passengers who credit him with saving their lives. The veteran pilot was at the helm July 19, 1989, when he and his crew crash-landed a crippled airliner in an Iowa cornfield. More than half of the passengers survived. Rodolfo Gonzalez © News Capt. Al Haynes, who piloted the United Airlines flight that crashed in Sioux City, Iowa, on July 19, 1989, speaks at the United Airlines...
  • Pilot who made heroic crash-landing now tries to save daughter

    12/29/2003 8:12:55 AM PST · by RckyRaCoCo · 32 replies · 252+ views
    SEATAC, Wash. -- More than a decade ago, Capt. Al Haynes saved 185 lives when he crash-landed a DC-10 in Sioux City, Iowa, after its center engine exploded. Now he's trying to save one more. His daughter, Laurie Haynes Arguello, has aplastic anemia, a condition in which her bone marrow cannot produce enough white or red blood cells. She needs a marrow transplant, and although she has a donor lined up, she doesn't have the $156,000 that her insurance will not pay. So she and her dad, accompanied by 25 of their friends, have started raising money. In two weeks...