View Full Version : Swiss MD-11 last flight video
SP-LPB
2006-12-09, 08:57 PM
You can see how much a plane can mean to some people. My favorite three-holer with my favorite scheme, what a memory. :(
The first couple of minutes are a bit boring but then it picks up:
http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid= ... 48343&q=Md (http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-3341055849825848343&q=Md) 11
G-BOAD
2006-12-09, 10:41 PM
Thanks for showing it. I looked at the time and thought i would only watch 2 min or so, but ended up watching the whole thing. Really well made, music too.
Iberia A340-600
2006-12-09, 10:48 PM
Great video, thanks for sharring Jakub.
I love how the music get's all dramatic when the camera zooms in on the guy wearing the MD-11 jaket.
She really is a beautiful bird, wish I had been able to see her more at JFK.
Winglets747
2006-12-09, 11:40 PM
I also ended up watching the whole thing. It was funny to hear just overture music and very little English and then "Forever Young" at the end. But I thought it was rather fitting, since it seemed one day pax MD-11s were disappearing--Swiss, Delta, Thai, JAL. I guess now it's just really KLM and Finnair, and when those birds go it really will be the end of three-holers.
Thanks for sharing, Jakub.
-Will
Nonstop2AUH
2006-12-10, 12:54 AM
The sad loss of an Swissair MD-11 in 1998, which was prompted by an electrical fire, had a big impact on this relatively small country. In the aftermath, the airline spent alot of money to redesign the cockpit electrical distribution system on remaining MD-11s as well as to install supplemental fire detection and supression systems. No other MD-11 operator apparently did this because it was not mandated.
SP-LPB
2006-12-10, 01:12 AM
One thing that stuck to my memory about the Swiss MD-11's were the mighty winglets captured during banking over the Alps, nothing more breathtaking.
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0706443/L/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0706556/L/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0709441/L/
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