So much wrong with this list.
But let's look at two of my favorites. The douglas devastator: maybe it wasn't a great plane. but, because of exactly the kind of plane it was, it turned the course of the war in the pacific (WW2).
While Torpedo Squadron 8 pressed home a hopeless attack against the IMPERIAL japanese fleet at Midway, the Combat air patrol of Zeros (as they might be known) came down to completely destroy the devastators. One man, Ensign Gay, survived to watch the battle while trying to stay afloat.
BUT because the CAP came down, the Douglas Dauntless dive bombers came in from on high and in minutes changed the course of the war. Unopposed by combat air patrol, they hit three carriers. They came back later and got the 4th carrier changing forever the pacific war.
The fortunes of war changed because an obsolete torpedo plane got there first. In this way it was a heroic plane.
AS to the DC10. It had some terrible crashes early on. But it is still in use today with the USAF as the KC10 extender Tanker plane and with some cargo outfits in slightly more advanced versions. Every pilot who flew it that I have talked with loved the way it handled.
Wonder why the BBC didn't point its finger at the BAE146 and the HP137 among others?