Mayday

Behind Closed Doors (American Airlines Flight 96 and Turkish Airlines Flight 981)

Aired Apr 16, 2008 · 1:00 PM ET · 45 min

When an explosion blasts a huge hole in the fuselage of a new DC-10 airliner, the crash investigators discover a serious design flaw in the plane’s rear cargo door. Yet two years after the first crash, another DC-10 goes down because of the same problem. Should this accident have been prevented?