"James M. Knox" wrote

Yeah, but he had a bit of a different situation. He had a POH which said
it couldn't happen!!!

Didn't have a POH in a DC-10 cockpit. He probably had an Aircraft Flight
Manual, and I haven't seen an AFM yet that has said that something could
not happen.

Heck, even after they managed to get patched in to Boeing,

Why did he call Boeing with a problem in a Douglas (MD) aircraft?

the engineers kept telling him that he was wrong and that there
could not be anything wrong with the hydraulics.

Maybe he should have talked to the engineers at McDonald-Douglas.

Bob Moore
ATP B-707, B-727, L-188
PanAm (retired)