The DC-9 was a small popular regional airliner, initially made by Douglas in 1965, and then by McDonnell Douglas when the two companies merged. Over 1,000 DC-9 airframes were ordered by several ...

Join Captain George for a walk around the 46-year-old McDonnell Douglas DC-9-34 Freighter. The video covers a flight from ...

Additionally, airliners were required to have TCAS II ... The first signs of trouble on Air Canada 797, a DC-9 flying at 33,000 feet en route from Dallas to Toronto, on June 2, 1983, were the ...

The DC-9, one of aviation’s great workhorses, was scheduled to land one hour and 55 minutes later in Atlanta. Instead, after about 20 minutes, the white blue and yellow aircraft bored into the ...

As seen in the automotive world, seatbelts and good seats save lives. In 1987, a McDonnell-Douglas DC-9 airliner (a plane eventually replaced by models from Boeing) crashed in Colorado after ice ...