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...July 19, 111 people die when a DC-10 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa, after its rear engine disintegrates. Then, this weekend, another DC-10 has to make an emergency landing in Denver after its tail engine explodes...
...Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) decides to check into the matter to see if the DC-10 should be grounded. The conclusion? According to FAA Administrator James B. Busey, the nation's top aviation official, there is not sufficient evidence to keep the plane on the ground...
...nagging possibility of an inherent design flaw in the DC-10 remains. In 1979 an American Airlines DC-10 taking off from Chicago lost its left-wing engine, tearing out its hydraulic lines; the plane crashed, killing 273. The I.A.P.A. won a federal court order that forced the FAA to ground the entire DC-10 fleet for inspection. The planes were inspected and sent aloft again five weeks later...
More survivors might have walked away from the latest DC-10 disasters had they been sitting in safer seats required by the Federal Aviation Administration in all new aircraft. About half of all passenger injuries in survivable accidents result from the seat either slamming down on its occupant or breaking loose. The new seat can tolerate velocity changes of up to 16Gs, or a force of 16 times the occupant's body weight, an improvement from the current level of 9Gs. The agency will soon propose that older planes be refitted with these new seats...
...aftermath of a fiery DC-10 crash, an elite cadre of aviation lawyers is squaring off with insurers in a fierce legal battle. Millions of dollars may be involved...