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Douglas DC-10-30 [FedEx Express]

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Important Information (Wikipedia)

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 trijet has two turbofans on underwing pylons and a third one at the base of the vertical stabilizer. The twin-aisle layout has a typical seating for 270 in two classes. The initial DC-10-10 had a 3,500-nautical-mile [nmi] (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) range for transcontinental flights. The DC-10-15 had more powerful engines for hot and high airports. The DC-10-30 and –40 models (with a third main landing gear leg to support higher weights) each had intercontinental ranges of up to 5,200 nmi (9,600 km; 6,000 mi). The KC-10 Extender (based on the DC-10-30) is a tanker aircraft operated primarily by the United States Air Force.

About: FedEx Express Flight 647

FedEx Express Flight 647 was a flight between Metropolitan Oakland International Airport, Oakland, California and Memphis International Airport, Memphis, Tennessee that crashed during landing on December 18, 2003.[2]

The aircraft involved was a McDonnell Douglas MD-10-10F registered as N364FE. The aircraft's serial number was 46600, and its line number was 4. 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. The plane was equipped with three General Electric CF6-6D engines.[3] At the time of the accident, the aircraft had a total of approximately 65,375 flight hours.

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. 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

General Characteristics

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  • Wingspan 135.9ft (41.4m)
  • Length 153.2ft (46.7m)
  • Height 49.4ft (15.1m)
  • Empty Weight 117,204lbs (53,162kg)
  • Loaded Weight 147,282lbs (66,806kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 0.345
  • Wing Loading 46.1lbs/ft2 (225.1kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 3,195.2ft2 (296.8m2)
  • Drag Points 8719

Parts

  • Number of Parts 313
  • Control Surfaces 11
  • Performance Cost 1,749