American Airlines flight 191(Seconds from Disaster)

Seconds from disaster

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[ryoushii]

Actually, this was NOT a design flaw in the DC 10, this was the usual BS of airlines cutting safety corners to save money. McDonald Douglas specified VERY CLEARLY in their maintenance manuals the CORRECT proceedure for removing an engine for maintenance, but American deliberately choose NOT follow those proceedures and instead opted for a cheaper faster method, and thus killed everybody on flight 191, in order to save a few bucks

[kevinren10]

Death Contraption 10, or DC-10

[robertoflam55]

Why the driver of the Tower was silent when the plane lost an engine on the track? A plane costs millions, because they have video cameras on the outside so that the pilot can see everything going on outside the plane? If I had seen that loses an engine on the track, had tried to take off ...? Because the hydraulic system is not self-locking valves, in sections, if you lose hydraulic pressure?

[robertoflam55]

Porqué el controlador de la Torre se quedó callado cuándo el avión perdio un motor en la pista?

Un avión cuesta millones, porque no tienen video cámaras en su parte exterior para que el Piloto pueda ver todo lo que pasa en la parte exterior del avión? Si hubiera visto que pierde un motor en la pista, hubiera intentado despegar...? Porque el sistema hidráulico no tiene válvulas de autobloqueo,por secciones, en caso de perder presión hidráulica?

[supersoldier7738]

@ryoushii

they probably bought a few donughts with that money...instead if they werent lazy then they couldve saved all those innocent people.

[travelsonic]

Hold on, no slats or flaps, but would they still have control over the thrust reversers for engines 2 and 3?

[bakerryan5587]

@zopepope the hydraulics control most of the major systems of the aircraft, including the slats, flaps. So at this point, aborting takeoff is not an option, and landing somewhere else is not an option, because you have no slats or flaps. So the plane tries to land going 300+ mph,with nothing to slow it down. So the flight was pretty much over at that point..

[zopepope]

@charrua007 V1 Cuts. This is where we get an engine fire, failure, severe engine damage, etc. at the calculated V1. You take the plane to the air, get the problem sorted, and then come back in for a single engine landing. It isn't a big deal. The pilots in the accident above did everything right! No one should say otherwise. There were just circumstances they didn't know about.

[zopepope]

@charrua007 at overrunning the end of the runway and destroying the airplane by hitting obstacles, buildings, whatever. In this accident the engine separated from the wing severing the hydraulic lines off one of the hydraulic systems. Since hydraulics are what make the brakes work, there definitely could have been complications stopping the airplane if the brakes are affected by the loss of that particular hydraulic system. Long story short, every proficiency check pilots fly we practice

[zopepope]

@charrua007 For each takeoff, take off numbers have to be calculated for weather conditions, runway length, obstacles beyond the end of the runway etc. The DC10 is a large airplane and most likely used up lots of runway on the way to Vr (or where you rotate the nose). V1 is calculated as the speed where it is no longer safe to abort the take off. If anything happens at or after V1, you are going flying. If you attempt to abort at speeds above V1 or even high speeds below it, you have a good

[charrua007]

@zopepope

I don't think it was safer in this case. I don't know how you can say "it's safer to continue take off" without knowing what the problem is, each runway is different. If it's not a catrastofic event then it might be safer to attempt take off, otherwise I don't see how it can be safer. I'm not an aviation expert though

[zopepope]

@charrua007 Because after a certain speed (V1) it is safer to continue the takeoff and resolve the problem in the air than abort the takeoff. It is what airline pilots are trained to do. Look up that flight with the Blink 182 drummer and you'll see aborting a take off is a lot of times much more dangerous.