Originally Posted by
sevenstrokeroll
if you have a choice buy douglas...boeing did!
Let's be fair though, Douglas were responsible for one of the biggest airliner design SNAFUs in history (DC-10 cargo door/cabin floor failure), and then got caught with their pants down trying to hush it up.
In fact a lot of people forget that the earliest "What's it doing now?" accidents occured to neither an Airbus nor a Boeing product, but to the Lockheed L-1011 Tristar (EAL401) and the aforementioned DC-10 (ANZ901).