DC-10 Crew Was Heroic

I read Karl Kettler’s letter bashing the crew of the Continental Airlines DC-10 that had an uncontained engine failure at Newark (N.J.) International Airport. The runway is 11,000 ft. long. Kettler says the engine was blown with 9,000 ft. of runway remaining. If he had done any research, he would...

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