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On October 17, 1999, FedEx Express Flight 87, MD-11 N581FE, was written off after landing at Subic Bay International Airport, Philippines. The aircraft was operating from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport. Upon landing, the aircraft rolled down the whole length of the runway before plunging into the bay where it was completely submerged ...
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
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
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]
Northwest operated around 300 daily flights at the peak of the hub, including international flights to Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. [12] KLM, a partner of Northwest, launched a flight to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in June 1995. This was Memphis's first transatlantic passenger service. The airline used McDonnell Douglas MD-11 on the route.
The flight had an experienced flight crew; the captain, aged 59, who had been working for Flying Tiger Line since July 10, 1978, and became a FedEX pilot when the two companies merged on August 7, 1989. He had logged about 21,000 total flight hours, including 2,602 flight hours in the MD-10 and MD-11 series of aircraft.
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