UPS MD-11 crash at SDF

Boris Badenov said:
Ran across a parked MD tonight (er, last night, whatever) in SJU. It was powered up and there were ladders all over the place, so El Capitan ventured over and button-holed a line mechanic. Said line mechanic was just doing routine mx, but believed that they'd be back flying in the May/June area. (He also said that there was not as yet any directive on how to comply with the AD, so). Worth what you paid for it, but interesting.
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What do you mean May/June? They’re going to be flying intra Europe in February 😏.

Every MX person that talked about the MD last week mentioned they were being buttoned up for long term storage so the airplane being down that long makes sense. In reality who knows. I just fly my schedule and do what I have to if the schedule gets too crazy.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
You know, even for official record keeping purposes, I still think the guy who died from his burn injuries should count as a UPS crash fatality. He’d be alive if it wasn’t for his burns and injuries from the crash. And he was in the hospital the entire time. Sure, legality wise the family can sue, get money, etc.

But there’s something to say about the official count of death for the accident versus not.
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MikeD said:
Any investigation, repair resolution, or potential return to service updates?
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Nope! All the MD’s I’ve seen across the system have been sealed up for long term storage. I think the company figured out it’s going to be longer than just a few weeks.
 
They were doing de-icing on a FedEx MD11 at EWR on New Years Day, kind of surprising. Maybe for training?

The UPS MD11 at MSP is all sealed up COVID style.
 
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