American Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10

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The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 is an American trijet wide-body aircraft manufactured by McDonnell Douglas. The DC-10 was intended to succeed the DC-8 for long-range flights. It first flew on August 29, 1970 and it was introduced on August 5, 1971, by American Airlines.
The trijet has two turbofans on underwing pylons and a third one at the base of the vertical stabilizer. The twin-aisle layout has a typical seating for 270 in two classes. The initial DC-10-10 had a 4,000 mile range for transcontinental flights.

American Airlines is a United States legacy airline established in 1930 and currently based in Fort Worth, Texas. The airline began with a southern transcontinental route across the U. S. and has since built major hubs at Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW), Chicago, Charlotte, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, and Phoenix. American inaugurated service to Albuquerque on January 20, 1979 with one daily flight to DFW and one to San Francisco, both with Boeing 727 aircraft.

This American Airlines DC-10 N101-AA was the first wide body aircraft to land in Albuquerque as the result of a medical emergency in 1980. A passenger had a suffered a heart attack during the flight from Dallas to Los Angeles. The flight was diverted to Albuquerque and the passenger survived.

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