NTSB Probing DC-8 Upset Involving Broken Spoiler Cable

NTSB is looking into a Dec. 14 incident in which an Air Transport International DC-8-71 freighter made a hasty return to Anchorage Ted Stevens Airport, apparently because a broken cable caused a spoiler to deploy just after takeoff. The DC-8 banked sharply left just after lifting off from Runway 32...

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