From: Barry Boustead
Date: 5/9/2012 11:31:52 AM
Subject: AP Mobile: Pilot who saved 184 in Sioux City
crash dies at 69
The pilot who
helped save 184 people during a plane crash in Sioux City, Iowa, has died at
the age of 69.
Rosa Fitch says
her husband, Dennis Fitch, died at their home in St. Charles, Ill., of brain
cancer on Monday.
In July 1989,
Fitch was a United pilot and flight instructor who happened to be a passenger
on United Flight 232 when it lost all hydraulic power while flying from Denver
to Chicago.
The DC-10
crash-landed, killing 111 people. Fitch and 184 others survived, due largely to
his troubleshooting from the cockpit floor where he and the crew struggled to
control the plunging jet.
The work of the
crew became famous in the aviation world and became part of pilot training.
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