Potential Wing Flaw on MD-11?
The FedEx MD-11 crash at Tokyo Narita now makes it three times that an aircraft of the type has flipped over on landing. The others were the Mandarin Airlines crash at Hong Kong in 1999 and the FedEx crash at Newark, N.J., in 1997. The wing broke off below design or certification specifications. I...
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