Pic of DC-8 that landed on fire in PHL

Jay Honeck wrote:
This is a picture of a UPS DC-8 that landed on fire at PHL:

http://phlairline.com/N748UP.html

Anyone know more about this incident? What happened?
If it had been one of those new fangled foreign made jobs it would have
fallen apart. Nothing like an over engineered American made product to
hold together when you need it most.... ;-)

Michelle (who has a friend that flies for UPS)

In article k.net,
says...

If it had been one of those new fangled foreign made jobs it would have
fallen apart. Nothing like an over engineered American made product to
hold together when you need it most.... ;-)


UPS claims to be the largest airline in the world, in number of planes -
and they maintain them very well. The DC-8 in the picture is obviously
completely updated, with new, high-bypass ratio fans, and you can be
sure the flight deck lacks nothing.

It's a sad day though when we refer to European airliners as "newfangled"
and our own stuff as old fashioned.

G Faris

Nothing like an over engineered American made product to hold together when you need it most..

Yep, the DC8 is built like a tank, probably why UPS spent the dough to
re-engine them with CFM56 fans plus the modern flight deck equip. A
friend of mine is an MD-11 capt with UPS. He tells me they don't skimp
when it comes to acft maintenance.

G Farris wrote:
In article k.net,
says...


If it had been one of those new fangled foreign made jobs it would have
fallen apart. Nothing like an over engineered American made product to
hold together when you need it most.... ;-)



UPS claims to be the largest airline in the world, in number of planes -
and they maintain them very well. The DC-8 in the picture is obviously
completely updated, with new, high-bypass ratio fans, and you can be
sure the flight deck lacks nothing.

It's a sad day though when we refer to European airliners as "newfangled"
and our own stuff as old fashioned.

G Faris

It was a joke. I making reference that when they built that airplane
they really BUILT that airplane. The fact it has lasted 40 or so years
in service is a testimate to our Engineering then and now.
Michelle

Here is the FAA report, very preliminary.

http://www.faa.gov/data_statistics/a...ts02/index.cfm

"When it absolutely has to get charbroiled overnight!"