Mmmm... C-17! They fly one over the house every year during the airshow, monster low.
I'm not entirely surprised that C-17 did have a similar problem, but this is a passenger plane in this story. Their lack of conservatism in design is a physical and perceptual problem for their customer base.
>>Mmmm... C-17!
I've gotten a really good tour from a friend who's a pilot. Really an awesome aircraft.
We don't realize how important our having real military transport/logistics support really is, until you see stories like the recent one of the Belgian wheeled AFV's getting hijacked into some African he!!hole while being transported by a commercial freighter.