The MD-11’s three engines were meant to make “one engine out” a manageable problem; an engine leaving the airplane is something else entirely. UPS Flight 2976 placed an uncomfortable engineering ...

The most consequential mechanical failures in transport aviation are often the ones which start as hairline cracks hidden ...

It may be the darling child of heavy-lift cargo carriers around the world, but the consensus is clear. The MD-11's days look ...

The UPS freighter that crashed in Louisville was a 34-year old jet. While that’s old for a passenger plane, that’s not so unusual in the world of air cargo. There are no initial indications that the ...

A United Parcel Service MD-11 crashed while taking off from Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville, Kentucky last week, killing all three pilots and 11 people on the ground. In response, the ...

The FAA has ordered immediate inspections of all McDonnell-Douglas MD-11s before further flight, mandating a voluntary grounding already in place based on Boeing recommendations while more is learned ...

News over the past week has been dominated – overshadowed, even – by the horrific 4 November accident in Louisville involving a UPS-operated Boeing MD-11 Freighter. The trijet came down shortly after ...

US safety investigators have started the arduous process of determining why a UPS Boeing MD-11 Freighter caught fire and crashed shortly after taking off from Louisville the evening of 4 November. The ...

THIS UPS CRASH. FOR A WHILE FOR SURE. THANK YOU JENNIFER. NOW THE DEBRIS FIELD IS EVEN LARGER THAN ORIGINALLY THOUGHT, WITH THE NTSB CONFIRMING THIS AFTERNOON THAT IT SPANS BETWEEN A HALF AND THREE ...