n accordance with standard procedure the crew continued their takeoff and made the necessary preparations for two-engine flight, but as the DC-10 climbed off the runway and the pilot in command began to reduce speed, the steady loss of hydraulic pressure to leading edge slats on the left wing caused the outermost set to retract under the air load. Unaware the left wing was losing surface area and increasing its stall speed, the flight crew continued to slow down the aircraft until the entire left wing entered a full aerodynamic stall at 159 knots. With no lift being provided by the engineless left wing, the lift and thrust provided by the right wing and engine immediately rolled the DC-10 into an unrecoverable 112-degree banking dive to the left which sent the aircraft plummeting from approximately 400ft in altitude into the ground at this location.