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 registered as B-2171, was on a scheduled flight between Shanghai-Hongqiao Airport (SHA) and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) when the incident took place, according to an NTSB report.
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