What went wrong with the MD-80 aircraft?
Submitted: Apr 11, 2008 - Increased fares, packed flights and long delays have become hallmarks of air travel. But why were more than 100,000 passengers stranded in cities across the U.S. for three days?
American Airlines (AA) grounded its entire fleet of Boeing-manufactured MD-80 aircraft, a total of around 300 planes [source: Aviation]. As a result, as many as 2,500 flights were canceled by the airline [source:…

