Rockies Announcer Jerry Schemmel Shares How Plane Crash Changed His Life
After surviving United Flight 232, which killed 112 people in 1989, Jerry Schemmel went back in the wreckage to save an 11-month-old baby girl.
Years later, wracked by survivor's guilt, he did something he'd never done before: he said a prayer.
Jerry Schemmel is one of the nation’s most well-known sports announcers, currently working as the play-by-play man for the Colorado Rockies.
His resume includes previous broadcast experience with NBA teams like the Minnesota Timberwolves and Denver Nuggets.
He is also 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.
Author's summary: Jerry Schemmel shares his life-changing experience.