World Airways DC-10 NTSB report
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World Airways DC-10 NTSB report
Hello,
I don't know if it's not worth discussing or everybody missed this one?
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...15X00469&key=1
I would have thought that missing 40% of elevators prevents normal cruise?!
I don't know if it's not worth discussing or everybody missed this one?
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...15X00469&key=1
I would have thought that missing 40% of elevators prevents normal cruise?!
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Hi, the report says 40% of the right inboard elevator was destroyed. So they still had 60% of it remaining, plus the left inboard, plus the outboard elevators, plus the horizontal stabilizer.
What was left of the right inboard elevator was powered by two separate hydraulic systems, #1 and #3. A combination of all three systems powered the left inboard, the outboard elevators, and the horizontal stabilizer.
What a plane
MS
What was left of the right inboard elevator was powered by two separate hydraulic systems, #1 and #3. A combination of all three systems powered the left inboard, the outboard elevators, and the horizontal stabilizer.
What a plane
MS
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"What a Plane".......
Yep....... unless you're ploughing through the Ermenonville forest outside Paris after an explosive decompression..... or landing at Sioux City with the tail-feathers severed........bm
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Engineer, JAL 747 rear bulkhead failure was due to an improperly performed (by Boeing) repair, not a design defect.
As was the ORD engine pylon, Maxalt...MX used an unapproved procedure during an engine change that cracked it...trying to save time and $$, with the usual results from such practices.
Perhaps a better word for the -10 is 'unlucky'... but those that fly it seem to like it well enough. Like any other DC-plane it's well put together, IMHO. I'd fly one any time.
TT
As was the ORD engine pylon, Maxalt...MX used an unapproved procedure during an engine change that cracked it...trying to save time and $$, with the usual results from such practices.
Perhaps a better word for the -10 is 'unlucky'... but those that fly it seem to like it well enough. Like any other DC-plane it's well put together, IMHO. I'd fly one any time.
TT
