How to crash an airplane
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July 19, 1989 United Airlines Flight 232 suffers a tail-engine fan disc failure that rips out hydraulic lines so the DC-10 loses all hydraulics and conventional flight controls become useless but the crew uses differential thrust control (closing engine 1 and maxing engine 3 then coordinated throttles) to steer and damp oscillations long enough to reach Sioux City runway the aircraft cartwheels on landing 185 of 296 survive and the incident validates crew resource management as lifesaving practice
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- 0:00Start
- 8:23AL, I CAN'T CONTROL THE PLANE!
- 13:10WE'VE LOST ALL OUR HYDRAULICS.
- 35:07OF 296 PEOPLE ON BOARD, 185 SURVIVED.
- 37:16CREW RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
- 38:32NO HEROES
- 39:56EVERYONE HAS A VOICE
- 42:29SOFTWARE IS A TEAM SPORT
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