Episode 122: United Airlines Flight 232
Well There‘s Your Problem
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Control Surfaces in the Airplane, Right?
The tail mounted engine fan disc disintegrates. And of course that means it throws all those fan blades all over the place. The plane's made of aluminum, the titanium wins. So on a way out, some of these fan blades, they went into the tail. Now the tail has a control surface on it, which is actuated by three independent hydraulic systems,. All very close together at one point.
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