they live on fear

Propaganda for the Dassault Mercure:

@specter-177: "Basically France's FIRST repsonse to the 737, but completely inadequate as a competitor, as while it could carry more passengers, it had a very short range (half the 737-200), which limited foreign sales, and only 12 were built, though it did stay in service for more than 20 years."

My additional commentary: This shitfuck of a regional jet not only didn't sell a single unit internationally, it only sold to Air Inter. Air Inter.

Propaganda for the DC-10:

@airbus-a380-800: "we all know about the two accidents that were caused by a poorly designed cargo door and the disaster where the engine fell off (!!) but i think other people rarely appreciate the fact that the one and only fatal concorde accident was CAUSED BY A DC-10. a piece of a dc-10 fell off on the runway and got run over by the concorde. there's not many planes that have the distinction of bringing down OTHER AIRPLANES with their structural problems"

@hesitant-airplane (abridged by me lol, thank you for the rant): "the doors weren't properly closed in two separate accidents. no one was able to see that because the latching system was in no way indicating if the door was closed properly or not. both accidents happened in the 70s. that latching system had to break in TWO DIFFERENT FLIGHTS before they did anything to stop this from happening. the company claimed to have "fixed" the issue, until TWO years later a worse accident happens with another DC-10 and everyone dies. and the cause is, again, the door hadn't closed properly. I mean, what the hell? they had fixed it? why would it happen again? ah, of course, safety is overlooked when there's profit...

I am not a fan of the tail engine. I know it's not the only aircraft with three engines, and with an engine on the tail, but I just hate this. both aesthetically and also because when the two accidents i mentioned earlier in the post happened, it immediately became unusable. and it broke in other accidents too. for example united airlines flight 232 happened because that one ugly engine suffered a failure. because of it the plane couldn't be controlled. why would anyone build a plane where if one engine has a failure the whole plane has to go with it?"

@milfmaekar: "in the late 70s my dad witnessed graffiti in a public bathroom which read "fly McDonnell Douglas, while stocks last" and everyone called it the DC Deathtrap. I don't think it gets much worse than that"

Anonymous: "does this really need an explanation? it's the dc-10."