, and too unreliable.

I’m not really sure that it was that unreliable compared to it’s main rival the DC-10, it’s just that when the limits were written on what snags could be carried down route, Lockheed edged way on the side of caution.

When I used to work on Tristars much the same sentiments as above were echoed by the the airlines reps, it’s just that if the Tristar had the same, relatively minor snag as a DC-10, the Tristar book would say ground the aircraft and fix it, where as the DC-10 book would say carry it until you got back to your base station.