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	Turkish Airlines Flight 981 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Turkish Airlines Flight 981 was a flight that flew on an Ankara–Orly International Airport (near Paris)–London Heathrow Airport (London) route.
		The aircraft, a DC-10 was leased from American Airlines in 1973.
		The first latch related accident, on American Airlines Flight 96, occurred in June 1972 on a commuter flight from Detroit to Buffalo, New York, when the hatch was closed improperly by ground crew unfamiliar with the new latch design.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Turkish_Airlines_Flight_981 (790 words)

	Turkish Airlines Flight 981 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Turkish Airlines Flight 981 was a flight that flew on a Ankara-Charles de Gaulle International Airport (near Paris) - London Heathrow Airport (London) route.
		All 346 people aboard were killed in the accident, a large number of these were English rugby fans who had transfered to the plane after their own flight had been canceled due to a strike in London.
		The first hatch related accident occurred in June 1972 on a flight from Detroit to Toronto, when the hatch was closed improperly by ground crew unfamiliar with the new latch design.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/t/tu/turkish_airlines_flight_981.html (498 words)

	McDonnell Douglas DC-10 - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This problem was first identified in 1972, when American Airlines Flight 96 lost its aft cargo door after takeoff from Detroit; fortunately the crew were able to perform an emergency landing with no further incident.
		On Flight 96, an airport employee had violently forced the door shut, weakening the locking pin and causing the door to subsequently blow-out as it reached altitude.
		Some passenger airlines, most notably Northwest Airlines and Japan Airlines, continue to operate the DC-10 on trunk routes (although both NWA and JAL have plans to phase out their DC-10s in the near future).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/DC-10 (1341 words)

	Air safety - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Of particular significance was the Air Commerce Act 1926, which required pilots and aircraft to be examined and licensed, for accidents to be properly investigated, and for the establishment of safety rules and navigation aids, under the Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce.
		Despite this, in 1926 and 1927 there were a total of 24 fatal commercial airline crashes, a further 16 in 1928, and 51 in 1929 (killing 61 people), which remains the worst year on record at an accident rate of about 1 for every 1,000,000 miles flown.
		The failure to correctly close a cargo door on Turkish Airlines Flight 981 in 1974 resulted in the loss of the aircraft - however the design of the cargo door latch was also a major factor in the incident.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Air_safety (982 words)

	Air safety - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		For the airline industry, rules for the shipment of oxygen generators was severely restricted and cargo holds on larger airliners were required to have "fire bottles" installed.
		In 1988 an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 sucked pigeons into both engines during take-off and then crashed in an attempt to return to the Bahir Dar airport; of the 104 people aboard, 35 died and 21 were injured.
		The failure to close a cargo door properly on Turkish Airlines Flight 981 in 1974 resulted in the loss of the aircraft - however the design of the cargo door latch was also a major factor in the incident.
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	The Ultimate Turkish Airlines - American History Information Guide and Reference
		Turkish Airlines (Turkish Türk Hava Yolları) is an airline operated as a "state economic enterprise" owned by the government of Turkey.
		THY was founded on May 20, 1933 as the State Airlines Administration.
		On 3 March 1974, Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashed in France, killing all 346 passengers aboard.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/Turkish_Airlines (172 words)

	McDonnell Douglas DC-10 - Free net encyclopedia
		It was built to a specification from American Airlines for a widebody aircraft smaller than the Boeing 747 but capable of flying similar long-range routes from airports with shorter runways.
		Cables running from the flight deck to the rear control surfaces are embedded in the floor frame and a collapse would lead to a compromise of the flight deck's ability to control the plane.
		Some passenger airlines, most notably Northwest Airlines, and Omni Air International, continue to operate the DC-10 on trunk routes (although NWA has plans to phase out their DC-10s in the near future).
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/DC-10 (1805 words)

	McDonnell Douglas DC-10 - Gurupedia
		Turkish Airlines Flight 981, which crashed into a forest shortly after leaving Paris' Orly Airport in 1974, killed 346 and is ranked as the fifth worst aviation disaster in history.
		Flight 191 lost one of its underwing engines after taking off from O'Hare, and the engine loss damaged the aircraft's hydraulic systems, causing it to lose control.
		Japan Airlines, continue to operate the DC-10 on trunk routes (although both NWA and JAL have plans to scrap their DC-10s in the near future).
	www.gurupedia.com /d/dc/dc-10.htm (871 words)

	Turkish Newspapers -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Turkish is the official language of Turkey and is one of the official languages of Cyprus.
		The so-called "soft g", "ğ" in Turkish orthography, represents the phoneme and is pronounced as a front-velar or palatal approximant between front vowels.
		Turkish computers may use character set ISO 8859-9 ("Latin 5"), which is identical to Latin 1 except that the rarely-used Icelandic characters "eth", "thorn", and "y with acute accent" are replaced with the needed Turkish characters.
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	O'Reilly & Danko, a plaintiff's trial law firm
		For example, victims of an airline accident were only able to receive a maximum of $75,000 in compensation from an airline on an international flight.
		In flight, the plane experienced severe instability, due primarily to the installation of a worn-out screw on the tail's horizontal elevator.
		Synopsis: Flight 541 was destroyed on impact during the execution of a missed approach to the Francisco Bangoy International Airport in Davao on Samal Island in the Philippines.
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	Turkish Airlines Flight 981 - TheBestLinks.com - Ankara, Disaster, France, Federal Aviation Administration, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Turkish Airlines Flight 981 - TheBestLinks.com - Ankara, Disaster, France, Federal Aviation Administration,...
		Turkish Airlines Flight 981, Ankara, Disaster, France, Federal Aviation...
		It was the worst air disaster of all time until the Tenerife Disaster of 1977.
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	List of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners grouped by location (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Indian Airlines Flight 814 - Hijacked on the way to India, and flown to India, Pakistan, the UAE, and Afghanistan before the passengers are released
		TWA Flight 840 - Bombed on the way to Athens, Greece, sucking out 4 on board - the plane landed safely.
		Turkish Airlines Flight 981 - Crashed in Ermenonville, France (Ermenonville air disaster)
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		An unfortunate string of DC-10 crashes in the mid to late 1970s 1970s were highly publicized, including one in 1974 1974, one in 1978 1978, and three in 1979 1979 (which resulted in the DC-10 being briefly grounded by the FAA FAA).
		The 1974 crash 1974 crash, when a Turkish Airlines flight crashed into a forest shortly after leaving Paris' Orly Airport killed 346 and is ranked as the fifth worst aviation disaster in history.
	www.biodatabase.de /McDonnell_Douglas_DC-10 (645 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Turkish Airlines Flight 981
		The hatch of the DC-10 is an interesting study in human factors, interface design and engineering responsibility.
		The first hatch related accident (American Airlines Flight 96) occurred in June 1972 on a flight from Detroit to Toronto, when the hatch was closed improperly by ground crew unfamiliar with the new latch design.
		The Boeing 747 has experienced a number of such incidents - the most noteworthy of which occurred aboard United Airlines flight 811 on 24th February, 1989, when the cargo door failed, and caused a section of the fuselage to fail, resulting in the deaths of 9 passengers who were expelled from the aircraft.
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	McDonnell Douglas DC-10 Biography,info
		The circumstances surrounding this crash were similar to those surrounding the previous accident; however, a modified seating configuration on the Turkish aircraft exacerbated the effects of decompression which caused the floor of the aircraft to collapse into the cargo bay.
		The accident was caused by complex factors, centred around an un-announced flight plan change, and not related to the airworthiness of the aircraft.
		Some passenger airlines, most notably Northwest Airlines, and Omni Air International, continue to operate the DC-10 on trunk routes (although NWA has plans to phase out their DC-10s on January 7th, 2007).
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Douglas_DC-10 (1898 words)

	Turkish Airlines Flight 981 Disaster
		Turkish Airlines Flight 981 was a flight that flew on a
		All 346 people aboard were killed in the accident, a large number of these were English rugby fans who had transfered to the plane after their own flight had been canceled due to a strike in
		All of this came out in the post-crash investigation, leading to a number of changes in the FAA's reporting chain.
	www.disasterrecovery-businesscontinuity.com /drp/disaster/Turkish_Airlines_Flight_981_Disaster (438 words)

	SOUND OF IMPACT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The memebers and eight passengers of Flight 655 suffered fatal injuries and the aircraft was destroyed.
		Flight 5787 had entered a steep, descending right turn and hit the aircraft parking ramp adjacent to the airfield's hangar.
		Allegheny Flight 485 struck a row of beach cottages at an altitude of 29 feet at a distance of 4,980 feet from the threshold of Runway 2.
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	McDonnell Douglas DC-10 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Although the DC-10's lifetime safety record is superior to that of the 747, the DC-10 suffered a trying time during the 1970s when a string of highly publicized crashes resulted in a brief grounding by the FAA.
		The first problem was revealed in 1972, when American Airlines Flight 96 lost its aft cargo door after takeoff from Detroit.
		Perhaps the most infamous instance of a DC-10 crash was the Flight 232 disaster at Sioux City in 1989.
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		The most disastrous was turkish airlines flight 981, that crashed in france on 3 march 1974 due to explosive decompression, killing all 346 passengers aboard.
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	Big Black: Sound of Impact
		The crew of Eastern 401 had failed to monitor the flight intstruments and to detect the descent soon enough to preven impact with the ground.
		United Flight 266 crashed at approximately 1821, four minutes after its initial takeoff roll, at a point 11.3 miles west of the airport in the Pacific Ocean.
		Allegheny Flight 485 struck a row of beach cottages at an altitude of 29 feet at a distance of 4,890 feet from the threshold of Runway 2.
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		In 1974 the failure to correctly close a cargo door on Turkish Airlines Flight 981 resulted in the loss of the aircraft, human factors incident are not limited to errors by the pilots or other crew members, the person in the tower is very important.
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	Air safety :: Web Articles ::
		On November 12, 2001, American Airlines Flight 587 crashed shortly after a takeoff, killing all 260 persons aboard and 5 more on the ground.
		In another incident in 1995, a Dassault Falcon 20 crashed at a Paris airport during an emergency landing attempt after sucking lapwings into its rear engine, which caused an engine failure and a fire in the airplane fuselage; all 10 people on-board were killed.
		Controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) is a class of accident in which a perfectly good aircraft is flown, under control, into terrain.
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	MC DONNELL - DOUGLAS DC - 10
		In 1995, two of the ex-Pakistan Airlines' aircraft that had been sold to Potomac Leasing and operated by Varigbecame available and were leased back to Canadian Airlines to fulfill capacity requirements.
		The infamous accident occured to Turkish Airlines Flight 981 on March 3rd, 1974 with another DC-10-10, this time in France, when the blowing open of a cargo door caused a sudden decompression, collapsing the floor and destroying the flight controls.
		On the longest of flights that the DC-10 accomplishes, an extra, or augment pilot is assigned to the crew, thus providing 4 pilots so that crew members can be relieved of duty in rotation and the off-duty time is usually spent in the crew bunk.
	www.taxiways.de /DC-10/misc/DC10@Canadian.html (1720 words)

	List of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners grouped by year
		June 30 - United Airlines DC-7 flying from Los Angeles to Chicago and a TWA Constellation collided over the Grand Canyon.
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		March 3 - Turkish Airlines Flight 981 (Ermenonville air disaster)
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