Actually, it was not that safe. To reduce fuel consumption, Douglas used a quite small tail for an aircraft that size. Consequently the MD-11 has to land at hi

Actually, it was not that safe. To reduce fuel consumption, Douglas used a quite small tail for an aircraft that size. Consequently the MD-11 has to land at high speed which makes it prone to catastrophic bounced landing like the 2 Fedex crashes. Also, it was not produced for very long (compared to other aircrafts from Boeing or Airbus) and the fleet was either retired or converted to freighters quickly by airlines.