Originally Posted by
Graybeard
The DC-10 is a pilot's airplane
It was also a festering, steaming pile of cow dung in terms of safety in it's original form, due to rushed development in a desperate bid to beat Lockheed to market.
LCC worked hard and eliminated most of the noise at the source, drilling vanes, etc. BAC and DAC merely added a ton of sheet lead to the sidewalls of their planes so the pax wouldn't hear the buzzsaws so loud.
Guess what? At cruise the DC-10 and 747 had quiet cabins, thanks to that ton of sheet lead, while the L-1011 had all the unmuffled noise.
Unfortunately the DC-10 cabin became very noisy when the rear cargo door blew out and took the floor with it - *briefly* very noisy in one tragic case. 346 dead because of a known design flaw and a "gentlemen's agreement" (none may dare call it a bribe) to prevent a legally-enforceable fix to that design flaw is something for which MD should never be forgiven.