Originally Posted by
RatherBeFlying
I remember seeing DC-10s parked in large numbers while the FAA and NTSB were sorting out what to do. The San Diego 727 collision with a C-172 first hit by the nosewheel then hit the leading edge and took out all three hydraulic lines routed next to one another. The Sioux City DC-10 lost hydraulics when a piece of the #2 turbine disk went through the elevator.
Hard lessons.
heard those stories about the PSA 727 domiciled in San Diego at the time, however looking at the last photo before she hit the ground, one can clearly see the rudder hard left, ailerons and spoilers commanding left wing down, and the elevators in a nose up position, the damage to the right inboard wing where the Cessna exploded on contact, (
pictures and report make no mention of nosewheel ) caused too much damage for that wing to sustain flight...at the safety seminar where Al Haynes was a keynote speaker I had the privilege to attend, he showed us a diagram where the hydraulic lines in the
horizontal stabilizer were penetrated, no mention of the elevator