From Our Archives: FAA Grounds DC-10 Fleet (1979)

We've delved into our archives to retrieve a June 11, 1979 report on the grounding of the DC-10 fleet following the May 25 crash of an American Airlines DC-10 shortly after takeoff from Chicago O' Hare airport. That was the last time the FAA grounded a fleet until last month's grounding of the Boeing 787 fleet. Click here to read the article, written by David M. North, who later became...