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35 years ago: How a United Airlines crew landed an ‘unflyable’ DC-10

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Upon his return, he reported that both right-hand and left-hand rear stabilizers had sustained damage. NTSB Fitch continued to make small manipulations of the engine controls as the aircraft crossed the runway threshold, still maintaining a straight and level attitude but at a landing speed much higher than normal.

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Incidents and accidents: AeroTime’s commercial airline safety roundup of 2024  

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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) differentiates an accident from an incident by imposing a threshold of aircraft damage set at $1 million. The left winglet of one of the aircraft collided with the right horizontal stabilizer and elevator of the other. This definition has been in place since 2005.

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