That has revived a question that has hovered over the MD-11 for a decade as passenger fleets vanished, and freighter numbers ...
According to the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the MD-11 demonstrated the highest rate of hard landing events among 27 large Western-built aircraft types. The plane was recorded with ...
The heavy weight of the aircraft combined with the aircraft's design requires 12 tires on the main landing gear.