Originally Posted by
treadigraph
The ONA DC-10s seem to have been dogged by misfortune.
Sadly of the 5 built for ONA only 1 remained. The first 4 were all delivered to ONA but the 5th was not.
ONA went bust on 14/9/1978 just days before N1035F was due to enter service.
N1031F Holidayliner America W/O Undershot landing IST 2/1976
Video of IST crash
N1032F Holidayliner Freedom W/O Bird strike RTO JFK 12/1975
Videos of JFK crash and from cockpit
N1033F Holidayliner Enterprise sold to Korean Air 11/1978 W/O Collision on runway, taking off on wrong runway in fog ANC 11/1983
Video of ANC crash here
N1034F Holidayliner Liberty sold to SPANTAX 10/1978 W/O RTO after Vr AGP 9/1982
Video and simulation of AGP crash here
N1035F Was it named?
ONA went under within days of delivery. No photos of N1035F exist in ONA colours but she f/f on 7/1978 so it must have been painted up for ONA.
The aircraft was sold to Seaboard World 10/1978 who then leased it to Loftleidir Icelandic. Then to Air Florida 1980. Then to Spantax 9/1982 to replace N1034F lost at AGP 2 weeks before.
Jet losses at Spantax
1970 Coronado at ARN to ZUR
3 engine ferry crashed just after take off 5F
1972 Coronado at Tenerife Los Rodeos to MUC
Just after take off the pilot initiated a steep turn at a height of 90 m and crashed just to the left and 325 m past the runway end having lost situational awareness and control in almost zero visibility. 155F
1973 Coronado MAD to LGW
Mid-air collision over Nantes with Iberia DC-9 PMI to LHR BX 0F IB 68F
1978 Coronado PMI to CGN
Pilots forgot to lower the landing gear at CGN and the aircraft slid down the runway for 1500m, resulting in the right wing and all 4 engines catching fire. Two AFS fire fighting vehicles who happened to be in the immediate vicinity were fighting the intense fire within 10 seconds, and probably prevented casualties in this accident. All 146 people on board escaped unharmed.
During initial approach to runway 32 at CGN the pilot experienced asymmetrical flaps and decided to land with flaps up. He then reduced power and silenced the gear warning horn. Shortly thereafter the engine no.3 reverser latch unlock light came on. Due to the excessive workload the crew forgot to lower the landing gear. 0F
1982 DC-10 30 AGP to JFK
RTO Severe vibration at or after Vr. The Pilot rejected the take off at 184 knots and the fully fuelled aircraft overran the runway at 110 knots and hit the ILS equipment, crossed the busy motorway, hit a small farm building and stopped 450 m after the end of the runway threshold and caught fire. The cause of the aborted takeoff was the severe vibration of the detachment of nose wheel retread 50F
In February 1976 an epidemic of typhoid broke out on SPANTAX flights from LPA to Helsinki and Germany.
One adult and one child died, and over two hundred of 253 passengers were hospitalized on the HEL flight.
Two Germans died with 385 sick of which 33 were in hospital in Germany.
Four flight crew members had typhoid infection which had also spread to passengers via egg salad served on board.
Spanish health authorities said that food prepared in Las Palmas and served aboard flights of the Spanish charter airline Spantax caused an outbreak of poisoning that affected hundreds of foreign tourists who had been holidaying in the Canary Islands.
(Don't have the fish)