Yesterday, February 17th, a Bombardier CRJ-900 passenger jet flying for Delta Airlines crashed while ... a McDonnell-Douglas DC-9 airliner (a plane eventually replaced by models from Boeing ...

Soucie said the crash “could have been much worse,” drawing a comparison with a 1987 accident in Denver that killed 28 people when a DC-9 aircraft ... All on board the Delta flight from ...

Delta is by far the largest operator ... with a few still operating them decades after they first flew. The DC-9 was a small ...

Delta's Boeing 717 flies 130 flights each way during the month of February, providing a total of 14,300 seats each way. Named after the former US President and First Lady, Bill & Hillary Clinton ...

In 1987, a McDonnell-Douglas DC-9 airliner (a plane eventually replaced ... are designed with survivability as one of the paramount concerns. In Delta crash, the airframe failed in exactly the ...