Jerry Schemmel is one of the nation’s most well-known sports announcers. He’s the current play-by-play man for the Colorado Rockies, and his resume is stacked with previous broadcast experience with NBA teams like the Minnesota Timberwolves and Denver Nuggets, among others.

Although he may be even more well known as a hero and survivor from one of the most shocking commercial airline crashes in American history — United Airlines Flight 232 — which in 1989 took 112 lives during a gruesome emergency landing in Sioux City, Iowa.

On impact, the airplane broke apart like a ceramic dish, as major segments of the DC-10 spun apart in fiery cartwheels across the runway and into surrounding corn fields.

Thirty-six years later, those images remain vividly seared in Schemmel's memory.

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