Re:NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf]
by dingaling on Thursday November 20, 2025 @04:01PM
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The entire MD-11 project was a budget-limited rush-job to try to capture some market share before the A340 and 777 came into service.
It produced an aircraft that failed to meet its performance targets, was a brute to fly and was obsolete the moment its rivals flew.
Douglas* by the early 1990s was a basket-case of warmed-over 1960s designs without the managerial courage to launch the clean-sheet project they needed to survive.
* as a division of MDC
Re:NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf]
by johnnienaked on Saturday November 22, 2025 @03:11AM
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And then they merged with Boeing...
I think it's cut throat capitalism at its best. Surely it was much too safe before, let's see how far back we can scale maintenance on the operations front but also how far back can you scale cost during development and production and then see where it takes us. If that changes the risk for population from 0.005 to 0.010, the shareholders won't care and it's great for profits.
I think we can see both but especially the latter with Boeing.