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The forklift shifted and cracked the pylon - did they make it off the runway?
A DC‑10 with a hidden maintenance crack taxis at O'Hare for takeoff with 273 souls aboard - did they make it off the runway?
The forklift shifted and cracked the pylon - did they make it off the runway?
In this episode, we follow the chain of routine choices and procedures that put a McDonnell Douglas DC‑10 back into service with an undetected structural crack. From a shortcut in a Tulsa maintenance hangar to the cockpit moments before takeoff, the episode asks what happens when inspections and experience collide with an invisible flaw.
Date: May 25, 1979
Aircraft: McDonnell Douglas DC‑10…
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