Shore Guy-you anticipated my question.
Isn't the MD-11's horizontal stabilizer about 30% smaller than on the DC-10? Was this planned for weight/drag reduction? Someone claimed that the plane has a very aft cg compared to other large planes.
The unfortunate Captain in the Newark accident received all of the official blame, but could there have documentation of tiny cracks in the landing gear, which the NTSB never read about?
