ABSTRACT
1. On the third of March, 1974 on the outskirts of Paris, France a Turkish Airlines plane carrying 346 passengers and crew fell from the sky killing all aboard. The plane was built by the McDonnell-Douglas Corporation, with major design sub-contracts to the Convair Division of General Dynamics. It was Ship 29 of the DC-10 line. It became clear shortly after the event that the crash was no mere accident or an act of God or due to pilot or crew error. Ship 29 fell from the sky when its cargo-hold door blew open at approximately 10,000 feet, causing the floor of the passenger compartment to collapse, thereby breaking the electrical and hydraulic lines that run under that floor. Without electrical or hydraulic power the airplane is unflyable.
