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- In article <airliners.1992.8@ohare.Chicago.COM> kls@ohare.Chicago.COM (Karl Swartz) writes:
- >In article <airliners.1992.6@ohare.Chicago.COM> sdl@linus.mitre.org writes:
- >>Some of my pilot friends have accused the DC-10 as having a
- >>particularly bad history of hydraulic problems (which have
- >>contributed to a few crashes).
- >Two, at least. AA 191 at Chicago/O'Hare on May 25, 1979, and UA 232
- >at Sioux City, Iowa on July 19, 1989.
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- I have a hard time believing that an intact hydraulic system would have
- prevented AA191 from crashing. Let's face it, a wing-mounted engine falling
- off produces such a rediculous unbalance that even full aileron wouldn't be
- able to counter it.
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