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Before the crash, the pilot radioed to report that the 15-year-old jumbo jet experienced "complete hydraulic failure," Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson Fred Farrar said. Parts of the plane were found 50 miles away...
Hydraulic systems allow pilots to manipulate the wing and tail controls. Without them, aviation officials say, the plane would be uncontrollable...
Flight 232, from Denver to Philadelphia via Chicago, carried 11 crew members and 282 passengers, including three infants, said United spokesperson Lawrence Nagin. The plane has a capacity of 287 passengers...
Rachel Halterman, spokesperson for the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), said agency investigators met with emergency medical teams from the city, county and state and representatives of the airline, the plane's manufacturer and the pilots union to maximize the search for victims and clues from the crash...
...flight recorder will be going back to Washington sometime today and we'll start interviewing the crew and the survivors, eyewitnesses and everybody we can who has first-hand knowledge of the accident," she said. "We're also collecting maintenance records on the plane...