According to the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the MD-11 demonstrated the highest rate of hard landing ...

The fiery crash of a UPS plane shortly after its left engine flew off its wing and sparked a massive fire during takeoff ...

January 31, 2000. As an Alaska Airlines MD-80 descends toward the Pacific, its crew battles a sudden and catastrophic loss of ...

A devastating cargo-plane crash in Kentucky has triggered a sweeping safety response in the U.S. aviation sector. On 4 November 2025, a freighter from UPS Airlines crashed shortly after take‑off from ...

Chen Chuanren is the Southeast Asia and China Editor for the Aviation Week Network’s (AWN) Air Transport World (ATW) and the ...

The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered all McDonnell Douglas MD-11 aircraft grounded pending further inspection, following UPS and FedEx each deciding to ground the planes that make up part ...

In the wake of a cargo plane crash Tuesday evening in Louisville that killed 14 people near its Worldport air freight headquarters, UPS announced just before midnight Friday it is grounding its fleet ...

The FAA temporarily grounded all MD-11 freighter aircraft for inspections following a fatal crash of a UPS MD-11 in Louisville, Kentucky. The grounding was prompted by an incident where the left-wing ...

WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration on Saturday issued an order prohibiting MD-11 planes from flying for now, pending inspection, after a fiery crash this week of a UPS MD-11 cargo ...

United Parcel Service has decided to ground its MD-11 fleet “out of an abundance of caution and in the interest of safety” following the tragic crash of one of its cargo jets, the company said Friday.

The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered all planes like the one that crashed in Louisville on Tuesday to stop flying. The FAA issued an “emergency airworthiness directive” regarding the MD-11 ...