United Airlines Flight 232 was a regularly scheduled route from Stapleton International Airport in Denver, Colorado, to O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois.
On July 19, 1989, at 3:16 p.m., this DC-10 (registered as N1819U) experienced a catastrophic failure during cruise flight of the No. 2 tail-mounted engine due to an unnoticed manufacturing defect in the engine’s fan disk. The separation, fragmentation, and forceful discharge of the stage 1 fan rotor assembly parts from the No. 2 engine led to the loss of the three hydraulic systems that powered the airplane’s flight controls. The flight crash-landed at Sioux City, Iowa.
Of the 296 passengers and crew on board, 112 died during the accident while 184 people survived. Despite the deaths, the accident is considered a prime example of successful crew resource management because of the large number of survivors and the manner in which the flight crew handled the emergency landing of the airplane without conventional controls. Even though deemed successful, it is also the deadliest accident in the history of United Airlines.
Using the information you reviewed about United Airlines Flight 232,
1- Identify the causal factors, hazards, mishaps, and effects associated with this accident.
2- What system safety analysis techniques would you recommend to examine this system?
3- What subsystems on the DC-10 were impacted by the loss of hydraulic fluid?
4- How could the United Airlines Flight 232 Sioux City Accident have been avoided using a proactive safety approach?
*Please make sure to address all elements in this paper!
**Please use the sources I provided!!!
Sources:
I. NTSB ACCIDENT REPORT.PDF
II. MIL-STD-882E Department of Defense Standard Practice: System Safety (The International System Safety Society)
III. Hazard Analysis Techniques for System Safety (Chapter 8 – Preliminary Hazard Analysis)
IV. Hazard Analysis Techniques for System Safety (Chapter 17 – Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) Analysis)
V. DOD JSSSEH_Joint Software Systems Safety Engineering Handbook
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