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History Repeats itself. How the DC-10 Earned a Dangerous Reputation - Events striking similar to current 737Max8
How the DC-10 Earned a Dangerous Reputation - Having the FAA pull its Type Cert. after a major crash, grounding it and causing mayhem for Airlines and Passengers. This would be the beginning of the end for McDonald Douglas. History Repeats itself.. Striking Similar to the current 737Max Issues. Link is to a short video. (www.youtube.com) Ещё...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Not true.
D.A. Deterly has it pegged pretty well. The 1011 was be far a better airplane, just too late to market. DC-10 engineering for things like redundancy, avoiding single -point failures, thrust asymmetry, etc. really sucked. Those things are the real cause behind the accidents -- not some A&P mechanic that didn't follow a checklist exactly. THAT's par of why good safety engineering was intended to allow for stuff like that.
L 1011 was a far superior product. Biggest problem was changing the tail engine. The 10's always rattled and you would wonder when something would fall from the cabin ceiling. The 10 was not a Boeing product, but rather McD. Other than el cheapo approach to selling over the L-10 it was functional. The 10's and MD11's make great freighters.
History is NOT, repeat, Not quite repeating itself. While the "Diesel 10" did have a few shortcomings, it was not what could not be corrected. Case in point, the United incident at Sioux City IA was a great example. Capt Al Haynes used both experience & CRM to overcome an impossible situation. Not to mention that a fan separation in the engine combined w/ a triple failure in hydraulics had to be dealt with. He could have just given up like the two crews on the two 737MAX flights did. Just because something is new in technology does not mean it is to be feared. Learn from mistakes, and move forward. Oh, by the way, you still have to fly the D**ned airplane!
With the engines close to the cabin and directly in front of the wing in the 737 Max what do you think would happen in an event comparable to Sioux City, where the engine falls apart.
relocation of the engines on the Max changed the flight characteristic of the AC , combined with only one AOA sensor it created problems