Seventeen Feet: How FedEx Flight 14 Turned Fatal in a Second
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Seventeen Feet: How FedEx Flight 14 Turned Fatal in a Second
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Fear of the last instant - at seventeen feet above Newark’s runway a well-known MD-11 freighter named Joshua was flying normally, and one second later it was inverted and burning on the grass. The aircraft had 13,034 flight hours, the left engine thrust reverser was inoperative, and 1,100 feet of runway separated the first touchdown from the point the airplane was no longer salvageable - so what single second changed everything?
In this episode, we tell the factual sequence of Flight 14’s final approach, the aircraft history and cockpit decisions that preceded the flare, and the investigation that followed; we close on the unresolved technical interaction that would only be clarified after a similar MD-11 accident twelve years later. How did crew planning and known equipment issues combine in that critical moment?
Aircraft: McDonnell Douglas MD-11 freighter
Registration: N611FE
Name: Joshua
Date: July 31, 1997
Flight hours: 13,034
- The airplane had accumulated 13,034 flight hours across 2,950 cycles at the time of the accident.
- The left engine thrust reverser was inoperative before the Newark landing.
- Captain Robert M. Freeman had 11,000+ total flight hours and 1,253 hours on the MD-11.
- First Officer Donald E. Goodin had 3,703 total hours and 95 hours on the MD-11.
- Eleven hundred feet of concrete separated the first touchdown from the moment the airplane became unsalvageable.
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