Don't blame the baggage handlers....
Got to take issue with Notso Fantastic for one of his comments....
I quote:
"The Turkish/AA DC10 freight door crashes showed astonishing stupidity by loaders who mishandled freight door closing operations...."
I trained as an engineer with BAe, and I always had it drummed into me that, as an engineer working in a nice air conditioned office, I had to think ahead for the days when someone would use the bit of kit in the field - and a wet, dark, windy field at that.
The fault with the DC10 aft cargo door was one of design. The Law of Sod says that, if it could be mislatched, one day it would be. In the Paris case it was one Mohammed Mahmoudi who was the unfortunate individual, who locked the door according to what he had been taught. The guilty party was the person who designed a door that could appear to be locked (warning lights out, vent door closed etc) when in fact it was not - leading to the deaths of 346 people.
Don't blame the baggage handler - blame the people who designed such a non-failsafe door latch.
TA