It remains one of the deadliest aviation disasters in history. Two years earlier, a cargo door on American Airlines Flight 96 broke off due to a design flaw with the DC-10. The rapid decompression ...

On the 12th of June, 1972 , American Airlines flight 96, a McDonnel Douglas DC10-10, suffered a sudden depressurization when its rear cargo-door detached inflight over Windsor, Ontario.