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JUN-1979 Sunbird Photos by Don Boyd

June 1979 - National Airlines McDonnell-Douglas DC-10's N62NA, N63NA, N66NA and N83NA aviation airline stock photo #US7902

Miami International Airport, Florida


I took this photo during the FAA-grounding (by revoking the aircraft type certificate) of all DC-10's from June 6 through July 13, 1979 after an American Airlines DC-10 crash at Chicago O'Hare International Airport on May 25, 1979. American was fined $500,000 for improper maintenance procedures by using a forklift to remove the engine and the pylon instead of removing the engine first and then the pylon. They cracked the pylon when using the crude cost-saving way of reattaching the engine and pylon to the wing. Please click on "original" below to see this image at the largest size.


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