NAC: DC-10's

[Vincent Gelinas]

Wasn't that the one where the oxygen generator was improperly stored and
caught fire?
On Aug 17, 2011 10:33 PM, "Cody Forbes" <cody at 5000tq.com> wrote:
> 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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