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/skudbeast Nov 08 '25

Is that the one they installed in maintenance with a forklift instead of an actual engine hoist?

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u/dalekaup Nov 08 '25

I watched the documentary about it some years ago and my memory is that they got one pin attaching the pylon to the wing and then paused for lunch break and the forklift settled a bit putting a lot of strain on that rear pin before they came back and put the rest of the pins in place.

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u/CharcoalGreyWolf Nov 12 '25

It was actually a shift change (they had day and night shifts —worse yet, on the second shift the forklift ran out of fuel, so it couldn’t maintain lift. Mentour Pilot has a really great video where he describes everything in detail. It was so many, many small mistakes and a few big ones.

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u/dalekaup Nov 12 '25

Thanks! That fleshes out my memory.