[HD] American 191 -Air Crash Investigation- (Chicago Plane Crash)

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American Airlines Flight 191, from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, to Los Angeles International Airport, crashed during take-off on May 25, 1979 at approximately 15:04 CDT. The McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 had 258 passengers and 13 crew on board. There were no survivors. Two persons on the ground were also killed. In terms of total fatalities it remains the deadliest single airliner accident on U.S. soil.

At 14:50 CDT, N110AA was cleared to taxi to runway 32R (Right) and at 15:02, the flight was cleared for takeoff and began its roll down the runway. Takeoff was normal until air traffic controller Ed Rucker witnessed the number one engine (left wing) separate from the aircraft. The engine flipped over the wing and fell onto the runway. The aircraft continued in a normal climb momentarily to around 350 feet AGL, as leaking fuel and hydraulic fluid spewed a vapor trail.

The pilots aimed to reduce speed from 165 knots (306 km/h) to the recommended engine-out climb speed of 153 knots (283 km/h), but the engine separation had severed the hydraulic lines that controlled the aircraft's leading-edge wing slats (retractable devices that decrease a wing's stall speed during takeoff and landing). Further, the missing engine had ripped 3 feet of the leading edge of the wing with it, including the hydraulic, and electrical power supplies to the captain's instruments — notably stall warning, slats disagreement, and stick shaker, which were only available to the captain and not replicated in the first officer's instruments.

As the hydraulic fluid bled away, the force of the moving air over the slats on the left wing caused them to retract, resulting in a significant loss of lift on the left wing and above all an untrimmable rolling moment to the left, because of that asymmetric lift. The aircraft entered an uncontrollable 112-degree left bank and pitched below the horizon from around 325 feet (99 m), slamming into an open field approximately 4,600 ft (1,400 m) from the end of the runway northwest of the airport at 15:04 CDT after about 31 seconds in the air.

The plane struck a hangar of the old Ravenswood Airport that was in use by the Courtney-Velo Excavating Company at 320 W Touhy Avenue, with the fuselage cutting a trench into the empty former airfield to the east of a mobile home park. With an unused load of jet fuel, the crash generated a large fireball, causing a plume of smoke that could be seen from the downtown Chicago Loop. The aircraft disintegrated and burned, and all 271 people on board were killed by the impact and subsequent fire, which also killed two workers at the Courtney-Velo repair garage and severely burned two more. Some wreckage was thrown into the nearby mobile home park, where three residents were injured and five trailers and several automobiles were damaged.


Notes:
Aircraft- Just Flight/CLS DC-10 (www.justflight.com)
Recorded with FRAPS
Edited in Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9

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• American
• 191
• Air
• Crash
• Investigation
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• FS10
• FS2004
• FSX
• Flight
• Simulator
• Chicago
• Disaster
• 1979
• McDonnell
• Douglas
• DC-10

[sam9524]

Whats game name?! plz

[MinnesotaMan13]

@sam9524 Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004.

[boeing521]

@MinnesotaMan13 Is that the JustFlight DC-10 for FS2004?

[MinnesotaMan13]

@boeing521 yes

[CrazyDoug17]

FSX? or XPLANE? good dam graphics man:D/////

[LTpadres21]

holy s***!!!!!!!! that is some nice graphics

[CoolMCVids]

Wow so many DC-10s crashed

[KZCrazyyy]

American Airlines again? Geez...

[MrBluewicked]

That is probably fake

I can tell

[cantforgetyou]

I feel sorry for all those people who died.

[beernpizzalover]

@bronco8585 It was a McDonnell-Douglas DC-10.

[icubed1993]

@danudet Sorry to bring up and old post, but they did have control, there are several hydraulic systems that are interconnected and have fail safe measures. the left outboard hydraulics did fail, but the flight controls were intact, they lost the outboard slats and power to the captain's instruments, stick shaker, and slat discrepancy indicator. This is why the aircraft stalled, because they slowed to V2 not knowing the slats had retracted and the stall speed was higher than the v2 speed.

[imtiaz90]

how did you get the scenery?

[TOPOFFMAN]

This is the best flight sim video I have seen so far, on this crash.

[4wheelerDJ]

This happened on my 12th birthday. I was in the family car in Texas and heard a radio bulletin just a few minutes after the crash. Still think about it every birthday.

[Tempesta1138]

loss of hyd pressure caused the leading edge slats to retract on the left wing, causing a lift asymmetry, which caused the roll.