NAC: DC-10's

[Cody Forbes]

Even more off topic, that story reminded me of ValueJet 592 which crashed not too far from where I was living at the time. Of note, it was DC-9.

-Cody (mobile)

On Aug 17, 2011, at 9:48 PM, Dan DiBiase <d_dibiase at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Neatest flight I ever had was on a DC-3 from Key West to Miami in the mid-80's. Being non-pressurized, it flew very low and over
> the Everglades, that was a pretty cool thing. It was probably one of these -
> http://tinyurl.com/44uluzz
> 
> Really neat entering at the back and climbing 'up' to your seat....
> 
>  
> Dan D
> '04 A4 1.8Tq MT-6
> Central NJ USA
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Marc Boucher <mboucher70 at hotmail.com>
> To: Jeff Waterstreet <jwaterstreet at tds.net>; hayesmyers at gmail.com
> Cc: quattro at audifans.com
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 6:45 PM
> Subject: NAC: DC-10's
> 
> I was just waiting for someone to take issue with the aircraft comparison. 
> Though I was certain that the issue would be that its a bad comparison 
> because airline maintenance will involve pretty much swapping out every part 
> of the aircraft several times over the aircraft's life.  Comparison could 
> also be seen as inappropriate because of the much higher cost of failure of 
> a commercial aircraft.
> 
> But I stand corrected (partially) for using the DC-10 in the example.  I 
> thought that KLM were using them when I spotted one last week, but I checked 
> my facts and they actually use the MD-11.   So DC-10's are not used for 
> passenger traffic anymore...except in Oklahoma :)
> 
> I've definitely flown on some jets that I'd wished had been retired earlier. 
> Early generation Airbus 300's come to mind.  I'm sure that's nothing 
> compared to people who've flown on aging Soviet jets.
> 
> I never much liked the DC-10.  And once it left debris on the runway at CDG 
> causing the Concorde's demise, I never quite forgave it.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Jeff Waterstreet" <jwaterstreet at tds.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 3:06 PM
> To: "'Hayes Myers'" <hayesmyers at gmail.com>
> Cc: <quattro at audifans.com>
> Subject: RE: Checklist for Reliability of Older Audis
> 
>> I just checked; none of the major scheduled commercial airlines in the US 
>> or
>> any major country have any for that matter, except a small charter airline
>> company in Oklahoma has 8.  There are a couple flying passenger service in
>> Peru and Bangladesh, not airlines that most of us would fly on under any
>> circumstance.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Fedex owns most of the 100 or so still flying, around 75.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> From: Hayes Myers [mailto:hayesmyers at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 2:52 PM
>> To: Jeff Waterstreet
>> Cc: quattro at audifans.com
>> Subject: Re: Checklist for Reliability of Older Audis
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> True? Or only in America? pretty sure they fly passenger in other parts of
>> the world.
>> 
>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Jeff Waterstreet <jwaterstreet at tds.net>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> "Major airlines still fly DC-10's or even older, alongside 777's, and they
>> achieve comparable reliability by doing more maintenance on the older
>> members of the fleet."
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> This comment uses a bad example; the last DC-10 was retired in 2007.  They
>> don't fly passenger service anymore; just freight.
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