Bear Cub, you are referring to the accident at, if I remember correctly, Sioux City. It was indeed a DC-10 where the crew had lost all pitch control after an uncontained failure of the No 2 engine.
The crew did a fantastic job and managed to get the aircraft down using the pitch effect of the underslung Nos 1 and 3 engines. There were unfortunately casualties.
The industry learned a whole raft of lessons about both CRM and system redundancy after that one.