Comment by jeffbee
20 hours ago
I don't know if it's "sliding back" as much as it is that this plane is also fundamentally from the 1970s.
20 hours ago
I don't know if it's "sliding back" as much as it is that this plane is also fundamentally from the 1970s.
The MD-11 was developed after that crash. Shouldn't its design and maintenance procedures have been informed by the incident?
The MD-11 is nothing but a re-engined and a re-named DC-10. They share the same type certificate.
https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/document-library/type-certific...
Aside from the engine detaching, it doesn't appear that this incident is in any way similar to the previous incident.
How do you figure? They're very similar planes. The left engine and its pylon detached in both cases during takeoff rotation. Both incident reports stated that proper maintenance would have prevented the detachment.
The way the situation played out is different but the failure mode seems to be very similar if not the same.
The NTSB report itself even references AA-191 as the only "similar event".
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Maintenance was informed by the earlier incident. It's why we haven't seen even more DC-10/MD-11 failures sooner. Designs too have kinda been informed by this -- it's not like Boeing or Airbus make trijets anymore.