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But that was a DC-10. It’s good share of the 400 Air Crash Investigation episodes. The first reason is that it has had a long life. The second is that it was comically badly engineered. Again, perhaps because AutoCAD didn’t exist in 1970 engineering. But the mistakes are still funny: - They forgot to include a compas in the cockpit, so they put it in the overhead space and added mirrors to see it. It often resulted in mechanics mounting it backwards (since the mirror showed a reverse view). You have certainly see that in the movie Airplane, thinking the rearview mirrors were part of a joke. - The MD-11, its successor, was too long, so pilots didn’t feel when they touched down, and they tended to slam the nose because of that, resulting in at least one filmed accident. The FAA shouldn’t have approved the elongation, at least not without adaptation, this was milking too much of the same cow, - It’s a plane which loses pieces. Its successor the MD-11 lose the famous piece that broke the Concorde. This is in addition to the DC-10 losing doors in flight, due to badly engineered mechanism, and getting FAA approval to not have to replace them immediately, which caused another crash. Two plane crashes for the same cause, does it ring a bell? and FAA approving the defective aircraft again, sounds twice familiar? In the later days, DCs were only used for postal services and not carrying passengers. Boeing bought MD circa 2003. |