When an individual structural interface can lose an engine at takeoff power, the engineering discourse ceases being about ...

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 ...

Fatigue fractures in the rear mounting bracket for the left engine pylon led to the crash of UPS flight 2976 departing Muhammed Ali International Airport in Louisville on November 4. That's the ...

Few commercial aircraft have had as dramatic a second life as the massive McDonnell Douglas MD-11. An aircraft once marketed as a long-range, three-engine successor to the DC-10, it ultimately found ...

Confirmation that the UPS Boeing MD-11F which crashed in Louisville suffered a separation of its left-hand engine during take-off is likely to draw comparisons to the watershed McDonnell Douglas DC-10 ...

US investigators probing UPS plane's maintenance history UPS crash similar to 1979 American Airlines DC-10 crash FAA ordered MD-11 and DC-10 jets temporarily grounded Nov 20 (Reuters) - The National ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Over 46 years before UPS flight 2976 crashed just south of the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, killing 14 people, a DC-10 passenger jet suffered a similar left engine ...

The fiery crash of a UPS plane shortly after its left engine flew off its wing and sparked a massive fire during takeoff could spell the end of the 109 remaining MD-11 airliners that have been ...