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...Another Northwest DC-10 turned back to Detroit immediately after takeoff because the flap controls were not working properly. By week's end many anxious travelers were avoiding bookings on DC-10s. Addressing the fears, Federal Aviation Administrator James Busey maintained that there is no evidence that DC-10s are less safe than other airliners...
Until we know for sure that DC-10s are just as safe as any other airplane, the FAA should ground the plane. The cost in human terms is too great to do anything else...
There is a precedent for such an action. All DC-10s were grounded for a month in 1979 after an American Airlines plane lost a wing engine during take-off. That accident took the lives of 258 people...
...know, the two accidents just may have been tragic coincidences, and DC-10s could be perfectly safe to fly. But there are enough similarities between the incidents to alarm frequent and infrequent flyers alike...
...I.A.P.A. pointed out that at least 17 DC-10s have been wrecked since the plane began flying 18 years ago; that amounts to 3.8% of the 445 DC-10s built by McDonnell Douglas, a higher percentage than that recorded by comparable superjets like the Lockheed L-1011 (1.2%). Both the FAA and McDonnell Douglas rejected the I.A.P.A.'s request. Said FAA spokesman John Leyden: "There's nothing that's come out of the Sioux City accident indicating a basic design flaw that would warrant such an action...