NATION : DC-9 Lands With Hydraulic Failure
A Continental Airlines DC-9 suffered partial hydraulic failure Tuesday evening and fishtailed in an emergency landing at Newark International Airport. None of the 89 people aboard the flight were injured.
A light indicating a hydraulic problem came on in the cockpit of Flight 354 from Chicago about 20 minutes before its scheduled landing at Newark, spokesman Ned Walker said in a telephone interview from Continental’s headquarters in Houston.
The plane appeared to have suffered a loss of one of its hydraulic systems, and a partial loss of the other, Walker said. But unlike the DC-10 that crashed in Iowa last week, the DC-9 doesn’t require hydraulics for maneuverability, he said.
Four of the DC-9’s six tires blew out and the plane fishtailed as it skidded three-quarters of the way down the 9,800-foot runway shortly after 8 p.m. It ended up sitting perpendicular to the runway.
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