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To: Fixit
You've found two, you say, but the article doesn't mention any.
21 posted on 11/12/2001 12:18:52 PM PST by Clinton's a rapist
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To: Clinton's a rapist
A CF-6 exploding in 1989 causing the famous Sioux City "Cart Wheeling" DC-10 incident.

In March, 1979 an Air France CF-6 powered A300 Airbus was destroyed by fire after an engine broke up and the crew aborted a takeoff from Sanaa Airport in North Yemen. This was before the major re-design that followed.

The two comparable incidents involved a Philippines Airlines DC-10 that lost a high-pressure turbine disk while in flight near Bahrein, in the Persian Gulf, in 1979, and a Thai International A-300 that aborted a takeoff in Hong Kong in 1981 when a disk flew off.

Add that to the above two reference incidents (DC-10 at Newark and the 767 ground incident). Granted, only the engines blew up, but in many of the cases they took the whole plane with them.

28 posted on 11/12/2001 1:53:34 PM PST by Fixit
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