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<blockquote data-quote="MrFedEx" data-source="post: 504592" data-attributes="member: 12508"><p>Thanks for all of the kind words regarding this tragic accident. Our pilots are incredibly well-trained and FedEx is fanatical about aircraft safety, so something extraordinary must have happened to have lost control so badly. As far as I know, this is the first fatal accicdent involving one of our large aircraft since FedEx began in 1973.</p><p> </p><p>I don't know what caused this accident, but the MD-11 is a very tricky aircraft to land. When they stretched the DC-10 to create the MD-11, the landing charcteristics were altered and I know of at least one other MD-11 incident where the plane flipped-over on landing and was destroyed. Fortunately, nobody was seriously injured in that accident. I would expect some sort of FAA directive on the MD-11 will be forthcoming if this is eventually found to be the cause of the crash.</p><p> </p><p>My thoughts and prayers go out to the families of these two guys as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MrFedEx, post: 504592, member: 12508"] Thanks for all of the kind words regarding this tragic accident. Our pilots are incredibly well-trained and FedEx is fanatical about aircraft safety, so something extraordinary must have happened to have lost control so badly. As far as I know, this is the first fatal accicdent involving one of our large aircraft since FedEx began in 1973. I don't know what caused this accident, but the MD-11 is a very tricky aircraft to land. When they stretched the DC-10 to create the MD-11, the landing charcteristics were altered and I know of at least one other MD-11 incident where the plane flipped-over on landing and was destroyed. Fortunately, nobody was seriously injured in that accident. I would expect some sort of FAA directive on the MD-11 will be forthcoming if this is eventually found to be the cause of the crash. My thoughts and prayers go out to the families of these two guys as well. [/QUOTE]
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