num_pages: 448
description: *Destination Disaster* is a remarkable book of the politics in the (wide-body) commercial-aviation industry and an accounting of the political warfare between McDonald Douglas and Lockheed Aircraft to gain acceptance of their designs during the early competition for wide-body commercial aircraft. One company McDonald pushed hard in Washington to prevent the technically more-advanced L1011 from being accepted in the commercial airline industry only to see its candidate the DC-10 later prove to be a safety nightmare. It is a spell-binding account of the troubles that ensued. In the end Douglas' effort helped prevent acceptance of the L1011 for large-scale orders and the plane ended production far too soon due to lowered order rate.
language: English
title: Destination disaster
publisher: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon.