Monarch Airlines DC-10

Monarch Airlines DC-10 departs Birmingham (and the G8 frenzy) for Orlando in 1998. A fifth of this aircraft is now at Manchester's Viewing area and is used as a classroom.

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• Monarch
• Airlines
• DC-10
• McDonnell
• Douglas
• Birmingham
• BHX
• Orlando
• 1998

[tb992]

were is this meuseam

[flyc3]

it's at the viewing area at Manchester Airport (towards the bottom of the runway). It's used mainly as a school classroom.

[tb992]

Is it the whole aircraft?

[flyc3]

from the nose to the second door, so around 1/4 of the aircraft.

[AeroAquarius]

Love those old DC-10's.

You know what's strange though? They seemed to just suddenly vanish. I don't remember gradually seeing less and less of them, it's like one minute they were there and then suddenly they were gone...

What the hell happened to them?

[boyOboyO2]

@boyOboyO2 Personally i love the dc 10 and md11 i like the 3 engine shape !

[Aviationnation10]

@boyOboyO2 dodgey piece of shit

[TheLofty97]

i like what i see they cut the nose to the second door so up to the wings and placed it in MAN viewing park the other bit was scraped as is was staring to go rusty

[boyOboyO2]

@andrewz105 thanx : )

[andrewz105]

@boyOboyO2 Yes, it wasnt a big success, there were teething issues with it as you have pointed out. But you have to remember McDonnell Douglas rushed to finish the DC-10 in the early 70's as did Boeing with the 747 and Lockheed with the L-1011 they all had problems, just the DC-10's were mostly fatal. Yea American are in a transition at the moment, they are trying to replace their older MD-80s and A300's,

[boyOboyO2]

@andrewz105 Thanx :) It was bad to be fair though it was mainly the cargo door and the times they were not serviced just like the united airlines hydraulics failure, the cargo door turkish airlines and the aa one. To be fair though arent all aa planes old cause onair crash investigation and the seconds from disaster alot were american airlines that crashed. I know some dc 10s still fly but most are gone fedex and biman bangladesh probarbly use them the most like u said.

[andrewz105]

@boyOboyO2 The safety record of the DC-10 wasnt actually that bad, there have been much more 737 crashes than DC-10 crashed but no one looks at it that way. Also most of the accidents happened in the early 70's, plus Fedex operate loads of them still, i think what killed off the DC-10 was firstly its age by the late 90's when most were retired they were nearing 30 years old, secondly the 9/11 attacks also sped up the process as cockpit door modifications were needed + High operating costs.

[citizenbandman]

ahhh the old viewing area by runway 33....miss that!

[animotioned]

god, talk about using ALL the runway ;-)