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By Equipping Their DC-10s with Three Independent Hydraulic Circuits so that No Failure Could Cut Them All, the Americans Literally Left One Engine Debris to Cut Them Together over the Iowa
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Over the Iowa, on July 19, 1989, a United Airlines DC-10 instantly lost all its control systems when a failure to manufacture the rear engine caused an explosion that cut off the three independent hydraulic circuits. For 46 minutes, the crew had only one lever: the differential power of the engines. A passenger instructor and exceptional pilots would turn this disaster into a quasi-miracle. More
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