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Old May 26, 2020 | 12:54 am
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Originally Posted by TEBraniff
Seems like yesterday. I had just gotten off a flight to IAH (I forget where I was coming from that day but it wasn't ORD). I saw the news flash at a gas station while filing up my car on the way home. I loved that ship and was sad to see it get such a bad wrap because of faulty maintenance, not the aircraft itself. RIP those who died that day.
Unfortunately, it was a bad design. The redundant control cables were laid to close to each other, which caused accidents when the floor collapsed because the baggage door was flawed with a closing mechanism that appeared to be securely closed when it wasn’t.

Remembering the DC-10: End of an era or good riddance? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...ngham-26259236
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