# (Duplicate) How This Plane Earned A Dangerous Reputation: The DC-10 Story

Link to YouTube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-085TjhUPo Video created by Mustard. Rights to the video belongs to Mustard. Description by Mustard: To start your free trial and get 10% off your first purchase go to: http://squarespace.com/mustard The DC-10’s story begins in the early 1970’s, at a pivotal time when air travel was undergoing a revolution. A new generation of wide-body airliners like the Boeing 747 introduced for 1970’s increased passenger capacity at a time when air travel was becoming more affordable. In 1971, McDonnell Douglas introduced their first airliner wide-body airliner, the DC-10. But few months later, rival aircraft builder Lockheed introduced their new wide body airliner, the L-1011. The DC-10 and L-1011 were similar aircraft aimed at similar segments of the market. The DC-10 incorporated many existing narrow body technologies from earlier DC-8 and DC-9’s. Focusing on simplicity and reliability, McDonnell Douglas took a technologically cautious approach in an era of rapid technological change, and this helped accelerate the DC-10’s development. This design approach, in part, helped McDonnell Douglas beat rival Lockheed to the market and the DC-10 was soon outselling the L1011. But after just a few years in service, the DC-10 would go from being pride of airlines, to a plane some people thought twice about flying. A series of accidents during the 1970’s, some of which were attributed to the plane’s design, shrouded the DC-10 in…

- Kind: Commercial
- Year: 2018
- By: Mustard
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/HowThisPlaneEarnedADangerousReputationTheDC10Story_201905)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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