Word: takeoff
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...three hydraulic systems. The engine may also have cut through hydraulic lines in the front of the wing. In either case, fluid necessary to maintain pressure on controls spilled out. The leading-edge flaps that were extended from the front of the whig to supply extra lift on takeoff may have been struck and damaged by the engine. Or the lack of hydraulic pressure to keep the flaps out may have permitted air pressure to push them back in. Now, the undamaged right wing, flaps still extended and engine still thrusting, had more lift than the left. It rose rapidly...
...crash has raised troubling questions about the DC-10 design. Is the pylon basically strong enough to hold the engine on under the stresses of takeoff? If not, how should it be modified? And how much might McDonnell Douglas have to pay for it? (A new pylon costs approximately...
...crew were far too busy. The aircraft's left turbofan engine had broken out of its moorings and fallen onto the runway. Normally the loss of one engine's power would not have been fatal; the aircraft is designed to function on just two engines even during takeoff...
...happened. They first wanted to know why that engine had broken away from the plane. The most obvious possibility was that it had ingested a flock of birds or airport debris and thus exploded. This had happened to another DC-10 and its General Electric engine (the CF6) on takeoff at New York's Kennedy Airport in 1975, when a number of seagulls had been caught in its internal blades. But the crew was able to abort the takeoff without injury. Another possibility was that the engine fan assembly had disintegrated in flight. That had happened...
...editor of Playboy magazine. In her last book, Starting in the Middle, she wrote lightly and amusingly about incidents in her life. In retrospect, one of her lines acquired new meaning. "When the job required travel," she wrote, "I developed such a fear of airplanes my head trembled from takeoff to landing...