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American Airlines Flight 96 (AA96/AAL96) was a regular domestic flight operated by American Airlines from Los Angeles to New York via Detroit and Buffalo. On June 12, 1972, the left rear cargo door of the McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 operating the flight blew open and broke off above Windsor, Ontario, after takeoff from Detroit, Michigan; the accident is thus sometimes referred to as the Windsor ...
The Boeing 747 was designed with an outward-hinging cargo door, unlike a plug door, which opens inward and jams against its frame when closed as the pressure drops outside in flight, making accidental opening at high altitude impossible. The outward-swinging door increases the aircraft's available cargo capacity (less room inside the fuselage ...
Other problems were the seasonal nature of demand in China (tea was a seasonal crop) and the imbalance between outward (i.e. to China) and homeward (to Europe) cargoes. Until 1881, there was more homeward than outward cargo. The solution that was suggested by John Swire to this problem was a "combination" of ship owners. [4]: 22
For large cargo doors, if the door were to be swung inside the fuselage, it would prevent valuable cargo being loaded into the large space it would occupy. These doors usually open outward using a secure locking mechanism with multiple pins or hatch dogs to prevent opening while in flight with a large outward-facing pressure differential. This ...
Modern freight forwarders offer an end-to-end process i.e. shipping the goods from the place of origin to the final destination and may offer additional services such as warehouse planning, cargo insurance and customs brokerage. [7] In a single transaction, the forwarder may be acting as a carrier (principal) or as an agent for his customer or ...
A preighter, also known as cargo in cabin, is an aircraft originally intended to carry passengers but which is operated temporarily as a cargo aircraft by loading freight in the passenger cabin. The term is a portmanteau of "passenger" and "freighter" and is attributed to Lufthansa chief executive Carsten Spohr ; it came to use as commercial ...
The outward-opening design presents the risk of the hatch being blown open by the pressure inside the cargo area if the latch were to fail during flight. To prevent this from happening, the DC-10 uses a latching system whose main security principle is an "over-center concept": four C -shaped latches mounted on a common torque shaft are rotated ...
12 first class passengers and (outward voyage only) 450 third class passengers SS Aberdeen was a British cargo liner completed in 1882. She was designed for service from London to Australia, and was the first ship to be successfully powered by a triple expansion steam engine .