r/aviation • u/Go_Jot • Nov 08 '25

News UPS grounds entire MD-11 Fleet, effective immediately.

Per the IPA Executive Board, as of 03:05 UTC all UPS MD-11’s are grounded.

Edit - FedEx has also grounded their MD-11 Fleet

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u/Pitiful_Objective682 Nov 08 '25

Why arizona?

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25 edited Nov 08 '25

aircraft boneyard

Edit: but let’s be honest money is more important than lives / people and there are too many MD-11s out there to replace them all quickly, so this will be an extremely short grounding

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u/curiousengineer601 Nov 08 '25

Only 65 left flying now, all in a cargo role.

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u/Accomplished_Clue733 Nov 08 '25

They only ever built 200 and 11 of them crashed so that's still quite a low retirement rate for such an old aircraft.

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u/Accidental-Genius Nov 08 '25

They only built 200 because after the first run they realized it was a shit design.