the fan disc had separated from the engine core and created shrapnel taking large chunks out of the horizontal stabilizer. in the second picture you can actually see the back side of the engine where the fan disc actually came out. >> by november 1990, 15 months after the crash, the ntsb pieces together what happened to united 232. over a farm in alta, iowa, the plane's fan disc imploded with calamitous results for the plane's hydraulics, the life blood of the jet. >> it sent shrapnel going in a multitude of directions, and it just happened that the shrapnel ended up cutting lines to all three systems. the statistical likelihood is extremely low, but in the case of 232, it actually happened. >> the titanium fan disc is determined to have a crack dating back to its fabrication.
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