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A hero's stress fracture (pilot who saved hundreds after Airbus explosion)
Sunday Telegraph (Sydney) ^
| 22nd July 2012
| Jennifer Sexton
Posted on 07/21/2012 10:50:19 AM PDT by naturalman1975
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To: naturalman1975
Richard Champion de Crespigny was about to turn off the Airbus's seatbelt sign on the climb out of Singapore when engine two on QF32 blew up like a cluster bomb. In his hands were the lives of 469 Sydney-bound passengers and crew. Why didn't he rturn to Singapore instead of continuing on a four hour flight?
To: MikeSteelBe
The engine falling off of the DC-10 was due to the maintenance crew cutting corners in how they removed engines, not a design flaw. That wasn't the only problem with the DC-10. A contributing factor in that accident was key instruments weren't duplicated on both sides of the cockpit. The DC-10 also had major cargo door problems among other things.
The MD-11 will crash and burn if you land it too hard on one of the gears in a crosswind. The gear will puncture the fuel tank and shear the wing off the aircraft. That's happened to one passenger jet and Fedex has done it twice.
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07/21/2012 2:10:56 PM PDT
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Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: Mind-numbed Robot
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