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McDonnel Douglas DC-10-10 | Turkish Airlines | TC-JAV | picture of crash site in the bois d'Ermenonville

Sunday 3 March 1974 Turkish Airlines DC-10-10 TC-JAV c/n 46704

ISP Flight TK981 from Paris (ORY) to London (LHR) with 11 crew and 335 passengers.

Cargo door failed when climbing out of Paris at FL 90, causing sudden decompression. The cabin floor collapsed as a result, hampering the flight control cables to the tail making the aircraft uncontrollable leading to the crash. The closing mechanism of the freight door had to be redesigned by FAA Airworthiness Directive.

First flight : 1972 Airframe hrs : 2955 cycles : 1537 engines : GE CF6-6D. All people on board died in the crash.

location : Bois d’Ermenonville, Bosquet de Dammartin, accident report : 49°08’30”N 02°38’00”E

McDonnel Douglas DC-10-10 | Turkish Airlines | TC-JAV | GE CF6-6 engine at the crash site

McDonnel Douglas DC-10-10 | Turkish Airlines | TC-JAV | picture of crash site in the bois d'Ermenonville with officials researching the debriss

McDonnel Douglas DC-10-10 | Turkish Airlines | TC-JAV | Frankfurt September 1973

McDonnel Douglas DC-10-10 | American Airlines | N110AA

Friday 25 May 1979 American Airlines DC-10-10 N110AA c/n 46510

DSP Flight AA191 from Chicago (ORD) to Los Angeles (LAX) with 13 crew and 258 passengers. Take-off from RW 32R with 10° flap setting, TOW 379.000 lbs ( 171914 kg)

V1 139 kts, VR 145 kts, V2 153 kts. Just before rotation, the left (No.1) engine broke loose from the wing. TO was continued on 2 engines, and 9 seconds after lift off the aircraft had accelerated to 172 kts and reached a height of 140 ft. But while still climbing the speed fell back to 159 kts and then, at a height of 325 ft, the aircraft started to roll to the left and control was lost. The aircraft dived into an open field and trailer park 4600 ft NW behind the runway. First flight : 1972. Wrong maintenance caused the failure of the engine pylon structure on take-off. The outboard leading edge slats were retracted uncommanded leading to the loss of control at 159 kts.

Airframe hrs : 19871 engines : CF6-6D. All people died on board in the crash and 2 on the ground. location : from the accident report : 42°00’35”N 87°55’45”W

General Electric CF6-6 turbofan pylon assembly

Chicago O'Hare (ORD) old runway system with RW 32R intersecting with 27L and 27C

Chicago O’Hare Runway 32R is not existing anymore. It was decommissioned during the airfield reconfiguration to reduce intersecting runways (O’Hare Modernization Plan OMP) which was completed in 2021.

Western Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 N903WA | Flickr

Wednesday 31 October 1979 Western Airlines DC-10-10 N903WA c/n 46929

ISP Flight 2605 from Los Angeles (LAX) to Mexico City (MEX) with 11 crew and 77 passengers. First flight : 1973. Approach in poor weather for RW 23R, but touched down at RW 23L with the left landing gear besides the runway, a go around was attempted but the aircraft struck a truck located on the runway and then crashed. The aircraft was wrongly landed on a closed runway.

Airframe hrs : 24614 cycles : 7345 engines : CF6-6K. 72 people on board died in the crash and 1 on the ground. 16 injured.

location : +- 200m 19°25’32”N 99°05’17W

McDonnel Douglas DC-10-10 | Western Airlines | N903WA | picture of crash site at Mexico City airport

Newspaper article 20 July 1989 McDonnel Douglas DC-10-10 | United Airlines | N1819U | photo of people taking care of wounded passengers with the burning wreckage in the back ground.

Wednesday 19 July 1989 United Airlines DC-10-10 N1819U c/n 46618

DSP Flight UA 232 from Denver (DEN) to Chicago (ORD) with 11 crew and 285 passengers. While cruising at FL370, 1 hour and 7 minutes after take-off, the no.2 (tail engine) fan disk failed. Flying parts of the fan severed the hydraulic lines of all 3 systems and all hydraulic power was lost. An emergency descent was initiated to Sioux City airport (SUX). The aircraft landed on the 6600 ft long RW22 without flaps with a speed of 215 KIAS and a sink rate of 8.2 m/s. First the right wingtip touched the ground followed by the right main landing gear. The aircraft skidded to the right from the runway and turned inverted and then broke up leaving a long debris field till the main fuselage with wings came to rest just past RW35. First flight : 1973. Airframe hrs : 43401 cycles : 16997 engines : CF6-6D 111 people died in the crash.47 serious injured, 125 minor injuries location : +-25m : 42°24’27.43”N 96°23’04.36”W

McDonnel Douglas DC-10-10 | United Airlines | N1819U | aerial picture of the crash site just past RW35 at Sioux City apt (SUX)

The main fuselage ended just past RW35

 20 July 1989 McDonnel Douglas DC-10-10 | United Airlines | N1819U | map of Sioux City airport with track of the crashed jetliner

Sioux City Gateway (SUX) runway plan with closed RW22

Sioux City airport (SUX) aerial picture with RW22

Sioux City Gateway apt., with RW22 .

Sioux City Gateway Airport (SUX) google earth jan.2024 with DC-10 crash site and location of once was RW22

Sioux City Gateway apt. (SUX) X = crash site = RW22 was once here (Google earth Jan.2024)

Newspaper article 20 July 1989 McDonnel Douglas DC-10-10 | United Airlines | N1819U | surviving passenger tells what happened

Newspaper article 21 July 1989 McDonnel Douglas DC-10-10 | United Airlines | N1819U | engine trouble

Newspaper article 21 July 1989 McDonnel Douglas DC-10-10 | United Airlines | N1819U | DC-10 is a safe airplane

Newspaper article 21 July 1989 McDonnel Douglas DC-10-10 | United Airlines | N1819U | DC-10 change to hydraulic system

McDonnel Douglas DC-10-10 fatal accidents table

Literature :

Op weg naar het noodlot (english title : “Destination Disaster”)

McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 | Federal Aviation Administration (faa.gov)

O'Hare International Airport - Wikipedia

Aviation Safety Network > ASN Aviation Safety Database > Type index > ASN Aviation Safety Database results (aviation-safety.net)

Sioux City Gateway Airport | This Day in Aviation