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China Eastern Airlines Flight 583 was a commercial passenger flight from Shanghai, China, to Los Angeles, United States, operated by China Eastern Airlines.On April 6, 1993, the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 operating the flight experienced an in-flight upset due to a flight crew member inadvertently deploying the slats of the aircraft while the plane was cruising near the Aleutian Islands.
Pages in category "Accidents and incidents involving the McDonnell Douglas MD-11" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The first MD-11 was delivered to Finnair on December 7, 1990, and made its first revenue on December 20, 1990. Assembly of the first MD-11 began on March 9, 1988, at McDonnell Douglas's Douglas Products Division in Long Beach, California, and the mating of the fuselage with wings occurred in October of that year. The first flight was originally ...
Families visit crash site days after the deadliest US air disaster in a generation 08:42 , Alex Croft Families of victims of the deadliest U.S. air disaster in a nearly in 25 years visited the ...
At about 6:43 P.M. local time (10:43 UTC) on 22 August 1999, the MD-11 was making its final approach to runway 25L when Tropical Storm Sam was 50 kilometres (31 mi; 27 nmi) NE of the airport. At an altitude of 700 feet (210 m) prior to touchdown a further wind check was reported to the crew: 320 deg/28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph) gusting to 36 ...
[11] [20] [21] The crash was FedEx's second fatal accident involving a jet aircraft, following the loss of a FedEx owned B747-249F that crashed February 18, 1989, near Kuala Lumpur, while still painted in the Flying Tigers livery after the acquisition of the Flying Tigers Line by FedEx in December 1988. This was the first fatal accident at ...
McDonnell Douglas MD-11. In 1986, the MD-11 was introduced, an improved and upgraded version of the DC-10. [44] The MD-11 was the most advanced trijet aircraft to be developed. Since 1990 it sold 200 units, but was discontinued in 2001 after the merger with Boeing as it competed with the Boeing 777.
Patient, 11, and others ID’d in Philadelphia jet crash as investigators find black box buried 8 feet in ground at impact site Richard Pollina February 3, 2025 at 4:53 AM