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July 4th 03, 08:56 AM
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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 
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