LAXSaabdude
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Probably the one I remember the most. It was only about 4 months after I had taken my first commercial airplane flight when I was 10 years old. We went PDX-DEN-ORD-DEN-PDX on Continental. All of the legs were on 727s, except the ORD-DEN leg which was on a DC-10, and I thought it was the coolest. Kinda freaked me out when that one went in.Lrjtcaptain said:AAL191 May of 1979 DC10 looses engine on takeoff at O'hare
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P.S. Donning my grammar cop hat here....in this case "looses" is actually pretty close to correct. The engine came "loose" from the wing, knocked the slat to the retracted position, causing a near stall condition on the left wing. Since the bus on the captain's shaker had failed from the loss of the left generator, and there was no shaker installed on the FO's side, there was no indication of a stall. Thus, the crew didn't know the severity of the situation, and may have been able to recover if they had lowered the angle of attack.