Word: cabin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mechanical problems had forced too many Northwest flights to return to Tokyo's Narita airport after takeoff, allegedly increasing congestion at the crowded facility. Last May a group of European airlines refused to take delivery of Boeing's new 747-400 jetliners until the company agreed to reinforce the cabin floors...
...survivors could scarcely contain their stunned amazement at being alive. "The plane bounced twice, flipped into the air, and we wound up sitting there upside down as the cabin began to fill with smoke," recalled Cliff Marshall, of Ostrander, Ohio. "God opened a hole, and I pushed a little girl out." Sister Viannea, a Felician nun, said the crash "was like a cyclone. Everything was flying all over the plane. I could feel people walking over me to get out. Finally, three men dragged...
...smoke and fire were heavy at one end of this upside-down cabin section, but the breakup opened a wide escape avenue at the other end. "I looked for where the emergency exit used to be," said David Landsberger, a New Jersey businessman who had been in Seat 13B. "But it wasn't there. Then I looked toward the front of the plane, and I saw daylight. Then I saw green stuff beyond the mud, and when I got out I found myself in a cornfield...
...heroics of Captain Haynes in leveling off the DC-10 until the final seconds. "He belongs in the pilots' hall of fame," declared Joe Sullivan, a retired flight engineer for American Airlines. The landing gear, dropped by gravity because of the hydraulics failure, helped support the part of the cabin where most survivors had been seated. The dampness of the cornfield from recent rains cushioned the crash impact. Fire-resistant seat upholstery installed at the insistence of the National Transportation Safety Board was also credited. So too were the rescue and medical efforts of the Sioux City area. So many...
...1970s, DC-10s were involved in two major crashes in which the hydraulic lines were implicated. The world's worst single-plane accident occurred in 1974, when a Turkish Airlines DC-10 lost an improperly secured cargo door as the plane left Paris. The resulting pressure change buckled the cabin floor and broke the hydraulic tubes passing under it. All 346 occupants died. In a 1979 crash in Chicago, 279 were killed after an improperly installed wing engine on an American Airlines DC-10 tore away on takeoff, - ripping hydraulic lines and causing the pilot to lose control...