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On 12 June 1972, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10, just a few months old, operating as American Airlines Flight 96 from Detroit, Michigan, to Buffalo, New York, suffers an explosive decompression after a cargo door in the lower rear fuselage bursts open. The crew makes an emergency landing at Detroit without any loss of life. Two years later, on 3 March 1974, Turkish Airlines Flight 981 suffers a similar sequence of events during a flight from Paris to London. This time, the DC-10’s hydraulic systems are damaged enough that the crew loses control, and the aircraft crashes in a forest near Senlis outside Paris, killing all 346 on board. At the time, it was the worst aviation disaster in history. A design fault with the cargo door mechanism was not rectified after the first accident, and the second DC-10’s door opened during flight, causing the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":333,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","template":"","dtquality":[],"class_list":["post-31345","episodes","type-episodes","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/episodes\/31345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/episodes"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/episodes"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/333"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dtquality","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dtquality?post=31345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}