The Mid America Museum of Aviation and Transportation in Sioux City has ended years of searching after finding a model of the D-C-10 like the one that crashed at the Sioux Gateway Airport in 1989. Museum director, Larry Finley says they started searching for a model of the plane two years before the 25th anniversary of the crash of Flight 232.
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The model was just a short distance away in Moorland, near Fort Dodge. Finley says they made changes to the model to fit into the exhibit.
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There were 296 people on board the plane when it suffered engine failure, and 185 survived after it made the emergency crash landing. Finley says one side of the model is clear and you can see inside. He says it adds perspective to the work the emergency responders did to save the lives of so many passengers on that day.
The model now hangs above the Flight 232 exhibit at the museum in Sioux City.