Inadvertent Slat Deployment: The Story Of China Eastern Airlines Flight 583

On April 6th, 1993, China Eastern Airlines Flight 583 was forced to make an emergency landing in the Aleutian Islands following an accidental slat deployment. The aircraft, a two-year-old McDonnell-Douglas MD-11 with the registration number B-2171, was on a regularly scheduled flight between Shanghai-Hongqiao Airport (SHA) in China and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in the United States of America when the incident took place.



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