The plane touched down with no brakes or spoilers. Please pay close attention to the flight attendants' briefing, and we'll see you in Sioux City." It's going to be a very hard landing, harder than anything you've been through. "We're going to make an emergency landing in Sioux City. "I'm not going to kid you," he said to the passengers, as he told New York. After about 45 minutes of tense maneuvering, Haynes got on the loudspeaker. The team was aiming to touch down in Sioux City. A pilot who happened to be flying as a passenger on the plane jumped in to manipulate the thrusters. Haynes and his colleagues were desperately trying to use the throttles and thrust as a crude way to control the aircraft.
The hydraulic system - the way that pilots steer - was down. "I thought to myself, How are we going to keep this thing in the sky? You don't train or drill for something like this, because it's just not supposed to happen," he said. The Two-Way Hero Pilot In 1989 United Crash Dies
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