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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 ...
FedEx Express: 74 34 Most aircraft were acquired from American, China Airlines, Delta, and Swiss. World's largest MD-11 operator. To be retired. Finnair: 5 2 Launch customer. Freighters converted from their own MD-11s. Garuda Indonesia: 11 2 5 Several leased from World Airways. Gemini Air Cargo: 4 Ceased operations in 2008. Ghana Airways: 1
Three flight crew members were in the cockpit on this flight: 49-year-old Captain David G. Sanders, who had worked for FedEx for 20 years and previously served with the U.S. Navy for nine years during the Vietnam War; 42-year-old First Officer James M. Tucker Jr., who had worked for FedEx for 10 years and previously served with the U.S. Navy for 12 years during the Vietnam War and People ...
Lufthansa Cargo Flight 8460 – an MD-11 that bounced and broke up on landing in 2010; China Airlines Flight 642 – an MD-11 that landed hard and broke up in 1999; FedEx Express Flight 14 – an MD-11 that bounced and flipped on landing in 1997; List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft
Freeman had logged a total of 11,000 flight hours, including 1,253 hours on the MD-11. The first officer was 39-year-old Donald E. Goodin, who had been with FedEx since 1994, having served as a former U.S. Air Force pilot from 1977 to 1994 and had 3,703 flight hours, though only 592 of them were with FedEx. Goodin only had 95 hours on the MD-11.
FedEx supplied an MD-11 and a leased 747 for the flight test phase. FedEx Express became the first air carrier to deploy the Guardian on a commercial flight in September 2006, when it equipped an MD-11 freighter with the pod. [93] [94] By December 2007, the company had nine aircraft equipped with the system for further testing and evaluation. [95]
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. [1]: 15-16 The flight also had aboard five off-duty FedEx crew members bound for Memphis. [1]: 1
The aircraft involved was a McDonnell Douglas MD-11, MSN 48495, registered as B-2171, that was built by McDonnell Douglas in 1991. It had logged approximately 4,810 airframe hours and 1,571 takeoff and landing cycles and was equipped with three Pratt & Whitney PW4460 engines.