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Aug. 29, 2019: Remembering United Flight 232’s Pilot; 5 Years Of Patents In Colorado

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<p>Cranes hold the tail section of the United Airlines DC-10 upright Sunday, July 23, 1989, four days after it crash landed at the Sioux City Airport in Iowa, killing 112 people.</p>

What's happened in five years at the Rocky Mountain Patent and Trademark Office? Then, a local survivor remembers United pilot Al Haynes who saved 184 people in a 1989 plane crash. Plus, a look inside a unique nuclear power plant that was shut down 30 years ago. Finally, Dierks Bentley returns to Colorado for a new Labor Day tradition.