EARL CASEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): An Iowa Air National Guard pilot was in the air when he heard the DC-10 pilot radio that there was an emergency on the United jet. Here's how he described it.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The suggestion that was coming across was that he was having severe controllability problems, was able to turn in only one direction, and that...</s>TOM MINTIER, CNN LONDON BUREAU CHIEF: I remember working day and night, day and night, day and night, day and night, and we kept bringing more people in to cover this story. And I think the story continued to grow as each hour passed. I remember this plane circled and was dumping fuel for well over an hour before it ultimately came in and crashed. You could see the wreckage in the corn field. And the thought that was going through my mind is, you know, how did he manage to bring this down single-handedly? Here is an aircraft that's huge, and you don't have hydraulics. You're basically holding on as best you can to steer it. And the fact that he managed to bring it in as he did, without putting it down on the runway or into a populated area was just a miracle.
CNN 20: United Airlines Flight 232 Crash, July 19, 1989