The last MD-11 crash with deaths was in 2009 and the last DC-10 kerfuffle was when their unapproved replacement parts fell on the runway and killed the Concorde. I wonder if flight 232 gave them a bad name - everybody seems to know that accident. Looks like have a good record otherwise.

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ceejayoz a day ago | parent [-]

The DC-10 had some significant design flaws at the start.

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gmac 21 hours ago | parent [-]

e.g. https://mondortiz.com/the-problematic-cargo-door-of-the-doug...

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dingaling 21 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The DC-10 was a rushed programme to avoid Douglas being frozen out of the 1970s widebody market by Lockheed and Boeing.

Similarly, the MD-11 was a cost-restricted update of the airframe to avoid McD being frozen out of the 1990s widebody market by Airbus and Boeing.

McD management wouldn't fund the more ambitious four-engined MD-12, so the trijet's fuselage was stretched and aerodynamic tweaks applied.

The MD-11 never met its performance targets and heralded the end of the Douglas commercial line. It was fairly quickly relegated from pax to cargo service where it has a good payload but little else to commend it.

	▲	consumer451 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I always thought that the third engine was thrown into the tail of the DC-10 when they learned of the L-1011. However, I think I first heard that from a retired Tristar pilot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_L-1011_TriStar

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hshdhdhehd 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The company now known as Boeing hoodwinking the FAA back then.

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hollow-moe 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The article has several words highlighted to be links leading to random pages ?