AIRCRAFT NEED HYDRAULIC FUSES

The report of the skilled relanding of a DHL Airbus A300 freighter, without control hydraulics after a missile strike to its wing, also refers to the equal skill shown in relanding a United Airlines DC-10 in 1989 (AW&ST Dec. 8, p. 42). What puzzles me is the apparent lack of a simple safety device-...

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