National Airlines Flight 27, DC-10, Albuquerque

The National Airlines Flight 27, DC-10 accident in Albuquerque, New Mexico was a watershed event for the propulsion engineering discipline:

• It crossed a variety of disciplines including flight crew, propulsion, cabin safety, installation, airframe systems, and electrical.
• There were issues that had at their basis a lack of airplane level awareness.
• There were paradigms in the design and certification process that just did not work.
• There were flight crew interactions.
• There were precursors prior to the accident.

Let's take a look at a summary of the facts about this accident.

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