Originally Posted by
Imapilot2
A flight of five DC-9-40's went on their last flight yesterday, three from DTW and two from MSP, to the scrapper down in Florida. Pulling out of the gate it was taking a little bit to get some final paperwork, ramp was wondering how much longer it would be there was a compass 175 waiting for the gate.
I always hated seeing DC9/40 on my rotation. Those stinking JT8D-11's were junk. It was like flying a CRJ200. MGTOW departure meant you were lucky to make it to FL300.
I'm still going to miss seeing them though.
