It may be the darling child of heavy-lift cargo carriers around the world, but the consensus is clear. The MD-11's days look truly numbered.

The nature of the recommendations made by Boeing and the FAA in 2011 may have allowed UPS Flight 2976 to crash over 14 years ...

UPS has temporarily grounded its fleet of McDonnell Douglas MD-11s, which was the type of plane involved in a deadly crash in Louisville, Kentucky, earlier this week. The decision was made "out of an ...

The UPS freighter that crashed in Louisville was a 34-year old jet. While that’s old for a passenger plane, that’s not so unusual in the world of air cargo. There are no initial indications that the ...

The MD-11 was not drawn on a clean sheet. It was a major update of the DC-10, built to carry more payload and fly farther ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The UPS plane that crashed shortly after takeoff from Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport just after 5 p.m. Tuesday was a McDonnell Douglas MD-11, a wide-body cargo jet ...

A look at the unique design choices made for the MD-11 and earlier DC-10 trijets, and how this influenced the DC-10's success ...

The part that failed and triggered the engine separation at the heart of last November’s fatal crash of a UPS MD-11 was flagged for inspections by Boeing in 2011, but the manufacturer concluded that a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An MD-11 freighter lands at Chicago O’Hare airport on March 19, 2017. FedEx operates 28 MD-11 cargo jets. (Photo: ...

(CNN) — The ashes have settled over the charred Louisville neighborhood where nine people remain missing and families cling to hope as investigators comb through the wreckage of Tuesday’s fatal UPS ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Saturday, Nov. 8, issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive (AD) requiring aircraft inspections for MD-11 cargo planes following the fatal crash in ...

The Boeing MD-11 cargo plane that crashed in Louisville, Ky., earlier this month showed signs of “fatigue cracks” and “overstress failure” in a piece of the McDonnell Douglas-built plane that connects ...