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[10] [20] [21] The crash was FedEx's second fatal accident involving a jet aircraft, following the loss of a FedEx owned B747-249F that crashed February 18, 1989, near Kuala Lumpur, while still painted in the Flying Tigers livery after the acquisition of the Flying Tigers Line by FedEx in December 1988. This was the first fatal accident at ...
Captain William Pope, 55, [4] was hired as a flight engineer by FedEx in 2000. He had previously served with the U.S. Air Force from 1982 to 2000 as a veteran of the Gulf War, Bosnian War, and Kosovo War. At the company, he worked on the Boeing 727 as a flight engineer, a first officer, and a captain, as well as a captain on the MD-11.
The crashes of FedEx Express Flight 14, and a similar crash in 2009 of another McDonnell Douglas MD-11, FedEx Express Flight 80 at Narita International Airport in Japan, are both covered on Season 14 of Mayday (Air Crash Investigation, Air Disasters), episode 5, titled "The Final Push". [10]
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The first MD-11 was delivered to Finnair on December 7, 1990, and made its first revenue on December 20, 1990. Assembly of the first MD-11 began on March 9, 1988, at McDonnell Douglas's Douglas Products Division in Long Beach, California, and the mating of the fuselage with wings occurred in October of that year. The first flight was originally ...
A FedEx plane malfunction caused it to crash-land and skid off an airport runway Wednesday night with three people aboard. FedEx plane crash-lands at Tennessee airport with three pilots aboard ...
He had logged about 21,000 total flight hours, including 2,602 flight hours in the MD-10 and MD-11 series of aircraft. The first officer, aged 44, was hired by FedEx on February 21, 1996, from Mesaba Airlines, where she had been employed since 1991. She had logged about 15,000 total flight hours, including 1,918 hours in the MD-10/MD-11.
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