Redeeming Qantas Award Points...AGH!

[JohnK]

MD11's do not have a particularly good safety record.

I looked up the statistics before I posted and there are some incidents but nothing out of the ordinary. Anyway Finnair flies MD11s and they have not had a problem.

Would you say that the Q400 is a troublesome aircraft? Only SAS have had problems with them....

 

[oz_mark]

DC-10s had some issues early on with cargo door locking mechanism, and with hydralics redundancy. But I thought they were all sorted before the MD11. Do you have any stats to support your claim, especially comparing with 747, 767, A330, A340 etc?

Of the 198 built, 5 were destroyed in crashes.

See also: The McDonnell Douglas MD-11 Accident History

Graphic on Page 17 of this pdf: http://www.yozawa.com/flight/boeingstatics.pdf

 

[NM]

Of the 198 built, 5 were destroyed in crashes.

See also: The McDonnell Douglas MD-11 Accident History

Graphic on Page 17 of this pdf: http://www.yozawa.com/flight/boeingstatics.pdf

Thanks for the links. Very informative. It seems that MD-11s operated by Chinese airlines or Fed Ex should be avoided! Page 17 of the second link tells the story. Though it is also interesting to note that only 13% of hull-loss accidents have been attributed to the "airplane" itself.

Thanks for making the effort to research and post the info.

 

[oz_mark]

Bit more of a hunt around, and found more up to date stats from the Boeing site:

http://www.boeing.com/news/techissues/pdf/statsum.pdf

 

[NM]

Bit more of a hunt around, and found more up to date stats from the Boeing site:

http://www.boeing.com/news/techissues/pdf/statsum.pdf

Thanks again.