Yesterday, March 3, marked the 40th anniversary of the Turkish DC10 crash at Ermonville Forest, outside Paris.
This was, of course, the worst DC10 crash by some distance, the American and ANZ crashes being next in terms of fatalities. It was probably the incident which really focused media attention on the DC10, from which it never really recovered; the American DC10 crash - which resulted, unfairly, in the aircraft being grounded for a time - sealed its fate. Only a small number of DC10s were sold after that incident (excluding the USAF KC10s).
By the time of the ORY crash, the 747 still had a clean safety record (although it was to lose it within less than a year; the LH crash at NBO occurred in November 1974); the L1011 had suffered a crash near Miami in 1972, but that was known to be a crew error rather than an aircraft fault).
Unfortunately, as we know, once the media gets a sniff of a problem, it focuses on an aircraft and after Paris, it never really released its target lock on the DC10.
It's hard to say "good riddance"; it was a popular aircraft with flight crews, with the large cockpit windows being particularly popular.