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Last night I watched a fascinating documentary on the History Channel,
titled (I think) "Flight 191". This is the American Airlines DC-10 crash on March 25, 1979, in which 270+ were killed, after the No. 1 engine blew off its wing. (I was only eleven when this happened.) In the last part of the program, the subject turned to the recovery procedures used by the pilots. I'm not a pilot, so I'll have to paraphrase, but essentially the plane could have still been flown with its missing engine if the pilots recognized they were in a stall (the pilot in question didn't have a "stick shaker" to warn him of this). I don't doubt it's possible to still fly a DC-10 with one engine missing, but a lot of things have to go right to turn it around and land, yes? Can anyone recall a commercial aircraft recovery from a blown engine? -- Rick (www.snipurl.com/rickumali) Umali |
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