Originally Posted by
BobZ
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/12/archives/engineers-warning-on-dc10-reportedly-never-sent.html
The max problems are tragic but not unprecedented. Beginning with the Comet the realm of high speed airliner design has come with a human cost.
Yup. Another sad case in history that should have never happened. An AA DC10 cargo door blowout and the floor only partially collapsed because it wasn't a full flight and the weight wasn't as big a factor. They lost some hydraulic systems and made an emergency landing in DTW (headed to ORD originally). Nothing was done about the cargo door locking mechanism and then you had the Turkish at Paris, full flight, and this time when it blew out and the floor collapsed, it took every control/hydraulic capability and they were then doomed. So sad. It should have never happened to the Turkish after what happened to the AA flight.