Ramsdell and Deputy Commissioner Jerry Schemmel were on United Airlines Flight 232 on July 19 , 1989 , and traveling from the league headquarters in Denver to the player draft in Columbus , Ohio , when the plane crash-landed in Sioux City , Iowa , after losing all hydraulics . Of the 296 passengers and crew on board the flight , Ramsdell was among the 111 passengers who were killed , while Schemmel survived
United Airlines Flight 232
United Airlines Flight 232
Jay Ramsdell