United Airlines Flight 232 - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • The accident was the subject of the 1992 television movie, Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232, (also known as A Thousand Heroes).
  • It was featured in an episode of Seconds From Disaster on the National Geographic Channel and MSNBC Investigates on the MSNBC news channel.
  • It was one of the inspirations for the crash in Peter Weir's 1993 film version of Fearless, adapted from a novel by Rafael Yglesias.
  • The DC-10 crash in the 1991 Dean Koontz novel Cold Fire is based on this accident.
  • The cockpit voice recording of the accident became part of the script of a play called Charlie Victor Romeo.
  • Dennis Fitch described his experiences in Errol Morris' television show First Person.
  • Martha Conant told her story of survival to her daughter-in-law, Brittany Conant, on "Storycorps" during NPR's Morning Edition of January 11, 2008.
  • The History Channel distributed a documentary named Shockwave; a portion of Episode 7 (originally aired January 25, 2008) detailed the events of the crash.
  • The episode "A Wing and a Prayer" of Survival in the Sky (UK title: Black Box) featured the accident.
  • The Biography Channel series I Survived... explained in detail the events of the crash through passenger Jerry, flight attendant Jan Brown Lohr, and pilot Alfred Haynes.
  • The band Leæther Strip released a song called "Crash Flight 232", which mentions the crash throughout the entire song.
  • Mayday (also known as Air Crash Investigation in the UK, Australia and Asia and Air Emergency or Air Disasters in the United States) produced a one-hour docudrama about the crash. The episode was entitled "Impossible Landing".

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