wileydog3:
I agree with you. I was on the DC-10 when the Chicago disaster happened. In fact, I was in Bangor, Maine when it crashed.
Even if the crew had had an honours degree in 20/20 hindsight and did everything that was possible it is extremely unlikely that they would have been able to stay airborne for more than another 5 minutes.
The Sioux City DC-10 had two clean and undamaged wings but the Chicago aircraft had severe structural damage to one (the left?) wing when the pylon detached up and over the wing. I also seem to remember that the slats on that wing were damaged and partially retracted which started up a pretty interesting rate of roll.
No amount of training would have helped in the end.