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To: Lane3 who wrote (4198)	11/13/2001 3:22:13 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14610

Karen, This happened with the United Flight 232 in Sioux City Iowa. This was considered a catastrophic failure where a large circular hunk of metal resembling a fly wheel cut through the hydrolics in the back of the plane (I ain't know jet engine expert, so sorry about the sloppy terminology, but I watch all of the documentary stuff regarding air disasters and remember this specifically). Anyway, the pilots were able to control the plane through the use of the throttles on the remaining engines enough that they got the plane to the airport and crash landed there. I believe about half of the crew and passengers survived. The part that flew off was found on a farm in the middle of nowhere many miles away. grub