In the late 1920s and the beginning of the commercial flight boom, two round-trip ... by another very significant model: McDonnell Douglas's DC-10. The DC-10 has over half a century of fascinating ...

i National Transportation Safety Board, “Aircraft Accident Report — United Airlines Flight 232, McDonnel Douglas DC-10-10, Sioux Gateway Airport, Sioux City, Iowa, July 19, 1989.” Report No.

There was a festive atmosphere in first class that day, July 19, 1989, on United Flight 232. Virginia Jane Murray ... On the flight deck of the McDonnell Douglas DC-10, the crew ate lunch in ...

The storied McDonnell Douglas DC-10 airplane will be used only for carrying packages instead of people after today, as the 42-year-old planes are retired to serve as cargo jets. The last flight ...

Its cockpit crew made a heroic effort to bring the DC-10 under control ... McDonnell Douglas, who mourn its departure. It was, as one of the survivors of Flight 232 said, "such a beautiful plane ...