The Anonymous Widower

Who’d Fly A Dreamliner With Air Neck End?

Years ago, I flew the Atlantic regularly on business,  At the time, one of the planes regularly crossing the pond was the McDonnell-Douglas DC-10.  There had been several disasters with the plane and reading the accident reports, I tried and usually succeeded in avoiding flying in the planes.  Perhaps one had my name written on it. In fact, I think I only had two flights in a DC-10 and those were much later when C and I flew to Hong Kong to celebrate the selling of Metier to Lockheed. But there were plenty of 747s about so, it didn’t cause me any inconvenience.

I’m starting to feel the same way about the Dreamliner, as it just doesn’t seem to be an aircraft that is fully-debugged yet.  Especially with the fire yesterday at Heathrow.

I certainly wouldn’t want to fly a Dreamliner, with an airline, that didn’t have the highest reputation for safety, airmanship and maintenance. But then I wouldn’t fly in any aircraft with some airlines.

July 13, 2013 - Posted by AnonW | News, Transport/Travel | Design, Flying, Heathrow Airport