{"id":437479,"date":"2026-05-25T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-md-11-wost-safety-record-any-us-widebody\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T06:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T20:00:19","slug":"10-hull-losses-since-1990-why-the-md-11-has-the-worst-safety-record-of-any-us-widebody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=437479","title":{"rendered":"10 Hull Losses Since 1990: Why The MD-11 Has The Worst Safety Record Of Any US Widebody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3540410\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/mcdonnell-douglas\/\"  >McDonnell Douglas<\/a><\/span> was one of the world&#8217;s largest commercial and military aircraft manufacturers until 1997, when it merged with Boeing. After the merger, Boeing&#8217;s commercial aircraft types took priority, and McDonnell Douglas&#8217; were phased out, although the MD-95 survived for a while as the Boeing 717 regional airliner. Still, the merger with Boeing would mark the end of the line for the MD-11 trijet, with production ending in 2000 after 200 examples were built.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MD-11 has a poor safety record among Western widebody aircraft built in the 1990s, although that tale is nearing its conclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,9103,1524],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-mcdonnell-douglas-md-11","category-ups-airlines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=437479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437480,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437479\/revisions\/437480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}