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ZX1100F1 · 10-24-2005, 04:06 PM

John,
The new A380 is projected to have a higher cruise speed than the MD-11 by about 5mph, the 747-400 is only about 18mph slower and your new Airbus heavies are all in .85 -.86 (or about 565mph) category.

I know that you like the MD-11 (it is fabulous looking) but it isn't that great of an airliner in terms of its ability to make money, it also has a few high and low speed handling characteristic idiosyncrasies.

Statistically (out of all the western built airliners) the Concorde has the worst safety record and the Boeing 777 has the best with no losses to date, the 737 has a safety record this is over 9 times better than that of the MD-11 which is squarely in second place for most unsafe airliner behind the Concorde, even after these statistics are updated and the 3 recent crashes taken into account the safety ranking of the 737 will not change much.

10-24-2005, 04:06 PM	#9
ZX1100F1 Buford T. Justice Join Date: Sep 1999 Posts: 2,004	John, The new A380 is projected to have a higher cruise speed than the MD-11 by about 5mph, the 747-400 is only about 18mph slower and your new Airbus heavies are all in .85 -.86 (or about 565mph) category. I know that you like the MD-11 (it is fabulous looking) but it isn't that great of an airliner in terms of its ability to make money, it also has a few high and low speed handling characteristic idiosyncrasies. Statistically (out of all the western built airliners) the Concorde has the worst safety record and the Boeing 777 has the best with no losses to date, the 737 has a safety record this is over 9 times better than that of the MD-11 which is squarely in second place for most unsafe airliner behind the Concorde, even after these statistics are updated and the 3 recent crashes taken into account the safety ranking of the 737 will not change much.