Dc 10 Airplane

Here are the names of surviving passengers and crew of the crash of a United Airlines DC-10 near Sioux City, Iowa. The names were provided by United; ages and hometowns were gathered from a variety of sources. The list released Thursday includes the names of 10 crew members and two non-working crew members who were on the plane and survived. One flight attendant was missing and not identified. Crew: Capt. Alfred C. Haynes, Seattle First Officer W. R. Records Second Officer D. J.

A Northwest Airlines jetliner bound for Honolulu had to return to Los Angeles International Airport shortly after takeoff Monday when one of its three engines malfunctioned, an airline spokesman said. The jetliner had just taken off shortly after 9 a.m. when there was a "compressor stall" in one of the DC-10's wing engines, said Northwest spokesman Doug Killian. "A compressor stall is an irregularity, and makes a loud bang," Killian said.

The discovery of a key engine part from a jumbo jet that crashed in July has intensified the search of Iowa cornfields for other pieces to the puzzle of what caused the DC-10's rear engine to fly apart, officials said Wednesday. "We don't know yet whether this is the golden nugget we're looking for," said Jim Burnett, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, of the discovery of the engine's fan disk. "But we're glad we found it." Spokesmen for General Electric Co.

Hawaiian Leases Six DC-10s: The airline plans to lease the wide-body jets from American Airlines and join American's frequent-flier program and Sabre reservation system. Dallas-based American, which had removed the DC-10s from service, would also take care of maintenance and training under a seven-year contract. Hawaiian Airlines, which is operating under federal Bankruptcy Court protection, would be included in American's tour packages. The agreement requires Bankruptcy Court approval.

The "complete hydraulic failure" reported by the pilot of doomed United Airlines Flight 232 is one of the most feared events in flying, rendering even a sophisticated three-engine jet like the DC-10 virtually uncontrollable. The wide-bodied DC-10 has three independent hydraulic systems that operate all the plane's control surfaces on its wings and tail, its landing gear and its brakes.

Conflicting reports emerged Thursday over whether mechanical problems may have played a role in the crash of a South Korean DC-10 jetliner while attempting to land at the airport in Tripoli, Libya. At least 71 of the 199 people aboard were killed. Dense fog early Thursday, which forced another airliner to reroute its flight to nearby Malta only an hour before the crash, could have been another contributing factor, Libyan officials said.

A crippled United Airlines DC-10 crashed a half-mile short of a runway while trying to make an emergency landing Wednesday afternoon, bursting into a cartwheeling fireball that broke into what one eyewitness described as "15,000 pieces" and killing at least 123 of the 293 passengers and crew members on board. Remarkably, as many as 166 persons survived the violent crash, according to Richard Vohs, a spokesman for Iowa Gov. Terry E. Branstad. The fate of four others was not immediately known.

The worst disaster in U.S. aviation history occurred 10 years ago when an American Airlines DC-10 crashed on takeoff from O'Hare International Airport. Flight 191 lost an engine on May 25, 1979, banked sideways out of control and slammed into a nearby field, exploding into an inferno. The furrow plowed in the field by the jetliner's left wing is still visible. The jetliner was reduced to scattered debris. All 258 passengers and 13 crew members were killed, as well as two people on the ground.

A Northwest Airlines DC-10 en route from Los Angeles to Minneapolis on Wednesday made an emergency landing in Denver after the jet's No. 2 engine apparently began breaking up and the pilot shut it down, officials said. Flight 308, carrying 256 people, landed at Stapleton International Airport Wednesday about 6:30 p.m. without incident or injury, according to Richard Boulware, a spokesman at the airport. "They experienced a severe vibration from the No.

Jerry Schemmel had escaped the burning United Airlines DC-10 after it crashed here Wednesday and found safety in a cornfield. But he heard the cries of a baby coming from the smoking wreckage and he plunged back into the airplane. "I found her--a baby girl--in an overhead compartment, beneath a bunch of stuff, and pulled her out," Schemmel, 29, said after he had been examined and released from a Sioux City hospital. "By that time it (the plane) was filled with smoke and I just ran with her.

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A mammoth tail-engine disk whose rupture is thought to have caused the crash of United Airlines Flight 232 last July was cracked even before the plane took off, federal investigators said Thursday. The flaw, discovered in the first inspection of the crucial DC-10 part since it was discovered half-buried in a cornfield this week, provides the strongest clue so far to the reason for the sudden engine explosion 37,000 feet above Iowa.

The discovery of a key engine part from a jumbo jet that crashed in July has intensified the search of Iowa cornfields for other pieces to the puzzle of what caused the DC-10's rear engine to fly apart, officials said Wednesday. "We don't know yet whether this is the golden nugget we're looking for," said Jim Burnett, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, of the discovery of the engine's fan disk. "But we're glad we found it." Spokesmen for General Electric Co.

A farmer in northwest Iowa found what appears to be part of an engine of the DC-10 that crashed in Sioux City, officials said Thursday, and more parts may be discovered as farmers harvest their crops. Officials of General Electric Co., which made the CF6-6 engine, and the National Transportation Safety Board hope that missing parts of the engine will provide clues to why United Airlines Flight 232 crashed July 19. The crash killed 112 people, but 184 survived.

Traces of Semtex, a powerful plastic explosive, were found in the wreckage of the French DC-10 that crashed last week after an explosion over Africa, killing all 171 aboard, two Paris newspapers reported. Liberation and Le Parisien said the discovery strengthens the connection between the UTA airliner crash and the bombing last December of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland.

The French government said that data recovered from the flight recorders of a DC-10 airliner that crashed in Africa confirmed that an explosion at an altitude of 30,000 feet brought down the plane. The Transport Ministry said the cockpit recorder and the flight data recorder showed that the "flight proceeded in a normal manner until a total interruption, indicating an in-flight explosion." The UTA plane, en route from Chad to Paris, crashed Tuesday in Niger, killing all 171 aboard.

J. P. Martin was only half-listening to the radio scanner Wednesday afternoon. The scanner was a dull hum in the office of Martin Airport, which Martin operates with his father. The monotonous jargon between pilots and air traffic controllers at Sioux Gateway Airport across the Mississippi was always there, but nobody really listened to it. And then Martin heard a jet pilot's voice warn that he'd lost an engine and that his plane was suffering complete hydraulic failure.

A Northwest Airlines jetliner bound for Honolulu had to return to Los Angeles International Airport shortly after takeoff Monday when one of its three engines malfunctioned, an airline spokesman said. The jetliner had just taken off shortly after 9 a.m. when there was a "compressor stall" in one of the DC-10's wing engines, said Northwest spokesman Doug Killian. "A compressor stall is an irregularity, and makes a loud bang," Killian said.

A French DC-10 jetliner with 171 people aboard experienced a powerful high-altitude explosion, possibly from a terrorist bomb, before crashing in a remote desert region of Niger in northern Africa, officials in France said Wednesday. In Washington, intelligence specialists said they believe that the jetliner may have been bombed by people seeking to retaliate against France for its recent actions in Lebanon.

The nation's top aviation official and the head of the board investigating the DC-10 crash in Iowa both told Congress on Tuesday that the jetliners are safe but also called for mandatory inspections and changes. James B. Busey, head of the Federal Aviation Administration, announced an order to inspect the fan disks of 220 DC-10 engines similar to the one investigators believe failed before the July 19 crash of a United Airlines DC-10 in Sioux City, Iowa, which killed 112 people.