Engineering Disasters: Cracked Fitting Brings Down DC-10
Engineering Disasters: Cracked Fitting Brings Down DC-10
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Design News has been doing articles lately on engineering disasters. This one tells how a cracked fitting brought down a DC-10. A forklift was involved. There is a discussion in the article about how designers have to take stuff like this into account.
There are all sorts of articles on fork lifts here on Eng-Tips, with this, thread507-374957: Column Dents - To Fix or Not to Fix, being the most recent.
There are all sorts of articles on fork lifts here on Eng-Tips, with this, thread507-374957: Column Dents - To Fix or Not to Fix, being the most recent.
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RE: Engineering Disasters: Cracked Fitting Brings Down DC-10
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RE: Engineering Disasters: Cracked Fitting Brings Down DC-10
Thus the latches are critical in securing the door. The latches were not secured correctly and the door opened during ascent.
The pressure difference between the passenger cabin and the cargo bay caused the rear section of the floor to collapse. Unfortunately the engine and flight control cables ran under the floor and were severed. The pilots could not control the plane and it crashed into a forest north of Paris.
RE: Engineering Disasters: Cracked Fitting Brings Down DC-10
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Engineering Disasters: Cracked Fitting Brings Down DC-10
The other rememberance I had was that immediately after the crash, they said it was a cargo plane. I guess when the firemen put out the fire, there were no signs of people in the plane.