Behind Closed Doors (American Airlines Flight 96 and Turkish Airlines Flight 981)

Mayday: "Behind Closed Doors (American Airlines Flight 96 and Turkish Airlines Flight 981)"

Season 5 · Episode 2
7.3/10 ( 7 Votes )

Mayday Season 5 Episode 2

Mayday: "Behind Closed Doors (American Airlines Flight 96 and Turkish Airlines Flight 981)" Season 5 · Episode 2
7.3/10 ( 7 Votes )

On 12 June 1972, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10, just a few months old, operating as American Airlines Flight 96 from Detroit, Michigan, to Buffalo, New York, suffers an explosive decompression after a cargo door in the lower rear fuselage bursts open. The crew makes an emergency landing at Detroit without any loss of life. Two years later, on 3 March 1974, Turkish Airlines Flight 981 suffers a similar sequence of events during a flight from Paris to London. This time, the DC-10's hydraulic systems are damaged enough that the crew loses control, and the aircraft crashes in a forest near Senlis outside Paris, killing all 346 on board. At the time, it was the worst aviation disaster in history. A design fault with the cargo door mechanism was not rectified after the first accident, and the second DC-10's door opened during flight, causing the crash.

TV Show: Mayday

Country: Canada

Quality: HD

Release: 16 Apr 2008

Duration: 45m

Views: 148

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