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On April 7, 1994, Federal Express Flight 705, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 cargo jet carrying electronics equipment across the United States from Memphis, Tennessee, to San Jose, California, was the subject of a hijack attempt by Auburn R. Calloway, a Federal Express employee facing possible dismissal for having lied about his flight hours.
The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 is an American trijet wide-body aircraft manufactured by McDonnell Douglas. The DC-10 was intended to succeed the DC-8 for long- range flights. It first flew on August 29, 1970; it was introduced on August 5, 1971, by American Airlines .
The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 had been involved in 55 accidents and incidents, including 32 hull-loss accidents, with 1,261 occupant fatalities. It was eventually replaced by more advanced and fuel-efficient twin-engine airliners, such as the Boeing 777 and the Airbus A330. [1] The last passenger DC-10 was retired in 2014 by Biman Bangladesh ...
Pages in category "Accidents and incidents involving the McDonnell Douglas DC-10" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The aircraft involved, manufactured in 1975, was a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10CF registered as N68055. It had logged onto more than 38271 airframe hours and 17818 take-off and landing cycles and was equipped with three General Electric CF6-6D engines. [1] [2]: 24–25
The airplane, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 (registration N1819U [6]), was delivered in 1971 and owned by United Airlines since then.Before departure on the flight from Denver on July 19, 1989, the airplane had been operated for a total of 43,401 hours and 16,997 cycles (takeoff-landing pairs).
The aircraft involved was a McDonnell Douglas MD-10-10F built in 1972 as a DC-10 passenger aircraft, and was first delivered to United Airlines and operated for the airline until FedEx purchased the aircraft on August 21, 1997. It was later converted to cargo configuration on July 3, 1999, and upgraded to an MD-10 on November 2, 2003.
The aircraft was originally built as a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 on 18 January 1971 and delivered to United Airlines on 25 May 1972, registered as N1801U. The plane was later sold, and FedEx took delivery of the aircraft on 2 July 1998 of the now converted McDonnell Douglas MD-10-10F and re-registered the aircraft to N364FE.