"Ralph Savelsberg" wrote in message
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Jack G wrote:

A couple of DC-10's were lost due to problems with the thrust bearing -
one
major crash at Chicago - I don't have a reference handy for the others.
Lots of people refused to fly on DC-10's after the Chicago crash -
prompting
the bumper sticker "If it's not Boeing, I'm not going".

Jack


It had and apparently still has a bad reputation. A couple of highly
publicised crashes (due to different reasons) just after an aircraft
enters service seems to have that result. However, there is a big
difference between it having a bad public reputation and it actually
being a bad aircraft.
Hundreds of the things have operated without any major problems for
years. I don't know the exact figures, but I doubt its overall safety
record being much different from that of, say, the Boeing 747.

Regards,
Ralph Savelsberg


From the statistics on the aviation safety site

http://aviation-safety.net/statistics/aircraft.html

It would seem the DC-10 has a better record than the Boeing 737-200
but worse than the 747, the MD-11 does better than the 747
but its a pretty safe aircraft overall.

Keith