it has two flaws...bad piloting and bad maintenance.
The DC9 was called the last "pilot's airliner".
If you point at the md80 crashes by the third world airlines, see the above
You are right. I don't personally beleive the A/C is inherently unsafe, as stated (but ignored) in my original post.
But the bad maintenance is not restricted to third world countries.
Alaska Airlines Flight 261 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia