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Air Crash Investigation/Mayday does a pretty good dramatization of this flight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-UM-YcwWBc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-U
by furgooswft13 7y ago
Air Crash Investigation/Mayday does a pretty good dramatization of this flight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-UM-YcwWBc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-UM-YcwWBc
A similar incident took place in 2003 on a DHL cargo plane after being hit by a surface-to-air missile. Miraculously they did manage to land the plane intact despite the total loss of hydraulics and needing to rely on engine thrust alone to control the plane.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Baghdad_DHL_attempted_shootdown_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Baghdad_DHL_attempted_sho...
The Mayday episode might also mention (least from my memory of last watching it) an experimental NASA program developed sometime after this crash that would allow "full airplane control" via computer in the event one more more control surfaces could not be used. It achieved this by translating normal flight inputs into sophisticated throttle manipulation of the engines, just like the pilots on flight 232 did, but with the reflexes and modeling of a computer.
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/pdf/88794main_PCA.pdf https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/pdf/88794main_PCA.pdf