The horrible 1979 incident in Chicago was an AA DC-10. I think Delta had them in their fleet, too.
http://www.super70s.com/Super70s/Tech/Aviation/Disasters/79-05-25(Chicago).asp
We lived in Prior Lake, Minnesota for 16 years and got to know the sound of the DC 10's 'grinding' as they went over. A couple of months ago, I was in Memphis on a sales call and heard that familiar nose...a DC 10 or MD 11 Fed Ex freighter.
Delta had a very few DC-10-10s, and not for very long; they got them in a merger with another airline (I think Western) and sold them off. (Delta used L-1011 Tristars as the backbone of their long-haul fleet from 1978-2001.)
They did have eight or ten MD-11s, they stopped flying them last year. A couple got sold or leased to World Airways (at least one's still flying with the red-and-blue Delta stripes under the World logo), the rest are, as far as I know, sitting out in the desert in California, unless UPS or another operator has picked some up for freighter use.
The MD-11 never really worked as a passenger liner for whatever reason, but it's sure found a second life as a freighter.
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