FedEx retired 12 aircraft in its fiscal fourth quarter as the company sought to align network capacity with anticipated ...

Lithuania announced on Jun. 19, 2025 the selection of the Embraer C-390 Millenium military cargo aircraft as its next airlifter, and will soon begin negotiations with the Brazilian aviation major.

Join Captain George for a walk around the 46-year-old McDonnell Douglas DC-9-34 Freighter. The video covers a flight from Nairobi, Kenya to Mwanza, Tanzania, where the aircraft cruised at 27,000 ft ...

Even the MD-11, one of the most modern tri-jets produced, has been relegated to cargo duty after its final passenger flight in 2014. Twin-engine jets have taken over the skies.

The three-jet-engine plane was a common sight in the skies for decades, and then it wasn't. What led to the rise and fall of the tri-jet commercial plane?

As per Boeing's official data, the MD-11 has a hull loss with fatalities accident rate of 1.56 per million departures, placing it third among passenger jets with the worst safety records.

FedEx has switched from downsizing to incrementally growing its air cargo fleet by ordering large 777 freighters and postponing plans to retire older MD-11 jets. The post FedEx orders Boeing 777 ...

FedEx Corp. has exercised options to purchase eight additional Boeing 777 freighters from Boeing and pushed back retirement of the tri-engine MD-11 fleet in response to rising demand for international ...

The aircraft's commercial story turned a new page when Boeing took over McDonnell Douglas in the mid-1990s, leading to the end of MD-11 production by 2000, after a relatively short production run ...

And so instead of all new airplanes, it was like derivative after derivative. So, for the wide body line, the MD 11 was the last throw of the dice. The MD-12, as we know, never made it to launch.

The cargo aircraft, known as McDonnell Douglas MD-11, was traveling from Seoul to Anchorage, Alaska. Cripps said bad weather around Alaska meant it needed a different place to land.

Lufthansa Cargo made its last McDonnell-Douglas MD-11 flight last week and has sold three of the aircraft to Florida-based Western Global Airlines.