Well, there are a lot of these planes going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that MD-11s aren’t safe.
True, 707 had a bunch of engine loses (Braniff test flight and Kabo 671 from top of my head) and 747 had a couple since they share pylon designs (El Al 1862 comes to mind). One was due to unseen cracks in the pylons and other in fuse pins, so maybe history decided to rhyme here.
Well, there are a lot of these planes going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that MD-11s aren’t safe.
Was this MD-11 safe?
Well, I was thinking more about the other ones.
True, 707 had a bunch of engine loses (Braniff test flight and Kabo 671 from top of my head) and 747 had a couple since they share pylon designs (El Al 1862 comes to mind). One was due to unseen cracks in the pylons and other in fuse pins, so maybe history decided to rhyme here.
Well, some of them are built so that the engine doesn’t fall off at all.