Pilots of a Lufthansa Cargo Boeing MD-11F failed to recognise the landing bounce which preceded a sequence of hard touchdowns and the destruction of the trijet at Riyadh, Saudi Arabian investigators ...
Global cargo giant FedEx mourned the loss of two of its own Monday, one day after the fatal landing accident of a company MD-11F at Tokyo's Narita International Airport. Captain Kevin Kyle Mosley, 54, ...
The FedEx Boeing MD-11 freighter that crashed on landing this morning at Tokyo's Narita Airport has been identified, as its charred wreckage is still blocking one of the airport's two runways. A ...
Thinking about the McDonnell Douglas MD-11, the first characteristics to come to mind are for sure its long and elegant fuselage, and its peculiar trijet configuration. Among aviation enthusiasts and ...
The veteran trijet, McDonnell Douglas MD-11, is once again under scrutiny following the tragic crash of a UPS Airlines cargo jet in Louisville, Kentucky. Although these jets are now only seen flying ...
MD-11F operators may have to confront an uncomfortable truth, namely that the cargo aircraft, for all its cost and payload virtues, is so difficult to land that safety could be compromised. The July ...