[jettester]

Oh, you mean that crash that should have killed everyone but didn't because the plane held together better in the crash than thought in the design? Hydraulics did not fail in that instance - they were subjected to a catastrophic failure that had never been imagined during all of the design reviews by the manufacturer, the airlines, the FAA and all of the red-headed step-child pilots who participated in the design reviews. You mean that one?

[sam_paine]

I could tell you were champing at the bit to defend McD. THe Dc-10 is certainly a marvel of crap. The hyraulic systems failed....all of them. Name an instance of a Boeing design where a compressor failure shredded ALL "redumdant" lines.

The only reason anyone lived is because the pilots were heroic and badasses.