Originally Posted by mike734
OK, now I don't really mean to be flame bait here but here goes.
Considering how few flight FedEx has and its' short history, isn't that a HUGE number of hull losses? What's going on over there? Doesn't FedEx hire lots of Navy guys? Maybe they just don't know what a hard landing is.
OK OK, relax. I kid, I kid. I kid because I love. Seriously though could there be a kernel of truth there? Or, is the MD11 just a POS and difficult to handle in less than idea conditions?
It is not a POS, far from that. But it has the fastest approach speed, right under the Concorde, and has a flight control system "delicate" to handle, very different from the DC-10.
Still one of my favorite airplanes to fly, and definitely my favorite civilian transport.