Originally Posted by
TimeKangaroo
N918DH did not return to service for two days so it would not be too surprising if it went tech. Needless to say if it had been something like a medical emergency, the plane could have headed back to BHM in a relatively short time.
But even when the MD-90 and MD-11 entered service during the 1990s, seems both were saddled with poor reliability and performance shortfalls from the get go. Perhaps a sad reflection of how much Douglas/McDonnell Douglas had declined.