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The last DC-10 airliner was made in the 80s. The 747 is still in production. People aren't buying tickets to fly FedEx so the safety perception isn't as big an
by neurotech1 14y ago
The last DC-10 airliner was made in the 80s. The 747 is still in production. People aren't buying tickets to fly FedEx so the safety perception isn't as big an issue.
- ams6110 14y agoPerception is the key, statistically the DC-10 was not an unsafe aircraft. Its hull loss and fatality rates are not much different from the 747.
- Tloewald 14y agoStatistically the 747 is 6x safer than the DC10, and its figures are distorted by the Canary islands collision that had nothing to do with airworthiness. http://www.fearofflying.com/resources/safest-airliners-and-airline-safety.shtml http://www.fearofflying.com/resources/safest-airliners-and-a... That said, today both planes are (literally) perfectly safe. The DC-10s problems all stemmed from a bad cargo door latch design combined with insufficient redundancy in its hydraulics.