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Originally Posted by F1 Tommy
Flight 191 was a DC10 wich when new had a lot of problems including a main deck failure and this incident which was caused by an engine pylon failing. The aircraft was so poorly designed that when the engine came off it tore out the hydraulic lines wich allowed the flaps hydraulics on that side to loose pressure and start retracting. Mcdonald Douglas made good airplanes but the DC10 when new was not one of them. It took years after production started to sort the "pig" out. The aircraft took off from now closed 32R. The UA DC10 crash in Iowa years later was also a case of poor design that allowed unprotected controls to be torn out by engine failure.
There was a auto junkyard and a small old closed private airport runway at that site at the time of the crash.
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The engine pylon failure wasn't McDonnell Douglas's fault. Several airlines, AA included, were using a shortcut procedure for engine mounting, rather than the procedure prescribed by the manufacturer.