For the last week or so the National Geographic channel has been showing some shows on Airline disaters. Very interesting and a little scary to watch. Probably not the best thing to watch before you go flying off somewhere on vacation! It is unbelievable the amount of work that the NTSB does to find out the causes of these crashes. I cannot belive how hard it must be to reconstruct a airliner from millions of tiny pieces!I was very suprised at the DC-9 T tail design. Basically it was said, it is one of the only Commuter aircraft that goes against the basic rules of designing an aircraft. The T tail design is not fail safe or does not have a back up feature designed into it in case of the failure. Which was the cause of a Alaska Airlines crash a few years ago. Are there any other aircraft out there like this? Just wondering, I would be interested in finding out.Any way, thought it would be of interest to people here on AVSIM that might like to watch and were not aware. Check your local listings.Thanks,EricAVSIM [email protected]

You may want to think of posting this topic in Hangar Chat, as the discussion sounds like it'd be interesting and such discussions thrive there. Usually if it isn't MSFS related, the thread doesn't see much action here.Of course the T-Tail design is in use on many different aircraft, so I suspect the comments were geared towards the DC-9/MD-8x9x.I don't believe I would be interested in making my flying and vacation decisions based on the equipment in use however (other than I prefer the 767 or A330/340 when I have to fly to Europe and do try to book airlines flying such equipment).Of a bigger concern for me are the 747's fuel tanks, and the 737's rudder. How many airlines have actually applied the fixes suggested after investigations into TWA-800 and the 737 disasters in Pittsburgh and Colorado Springs? That's why those that float conspiracies bug me so much--aircraft can have design defects, and sometimes the public is so sidelined by conspiracy theories that they don't realize that the industry--although safe--could have safer equipment.-John