Federal Express McDonnell Douglas MD11 F incident
McDonnell Douglas MD11 F · Incident
From Charles de Gaulle International Airport (LFPG) to Charles de Gaulle International Airport (LFPG)
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Event
- NTSB case
- DCA10WA096
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Incident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
McDonnell Douglas MD11 F
- Aircraft type
- McDonnell Douglas MD11
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N574FE
- Operator
- Federal Express
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route Possible conflict
- From Charles de Gaulle International Airport (LFPG), ParisTo Charles de Gaulle International Airport (LFPG), Paris
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 121: Air Carrier
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Not recorded
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Not recorded
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- None
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Paris, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
On September 18, 2010 about 7:30 PM local time, a FedEx Express McDonnell Douglas MD-11F (registration N574FE), landed on runway 27R and crossed runway 27L Paris-Charles De Gaulle Airport (LFPG), Paris, France. As a result, a Boeing 777 aborted its initial takeoff roll. The cargo flight originated from Memphis International Airport (KMEM), Memphis, Tennessee.
The accident is being investigated by the French Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses pour la sécurité de l’aviation civile (BEA). The NTSB has appointed a U.S. Accredited Representative to assist the investigation under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13 as the State of Registration of the Operator and State of Manufacturer.
All requests for information should be directed to:
Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses pour la sécurité de l’aviation civile Zone Sud – Bâtiment 153 200 rue de Paris Aéroport du Bourget 93352 Le Bourget Cedex, France Tél. : +33 1 49 92 72 00
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record DCA10WA096
- Event ID
- 20100924X41619
- Case number
- DCA10WA096
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: damage. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: a814148e9fadb3c76dd098173372a1083d85d4c92fd8696ea62f2b606f41b260; retrieved 2026-09-15T15:20:26.715Z.