What went wrong with the MD-80 aircraft?
“Shoot me now,” requested one traveler stuck at Chicago-O’Hare Airport in April 2008 [source: CBC]. This passenger, like an estimated 100,000 others spread across the United States, found herself stranded because of flights canceled by American Airlines on April 8, 9 and 10, 2008 [source: Los Angeles Times]. Airplane Image Gallery American Airlines (AA) grounded its entire fleet of Boeing-manufactured MD-80 aircraft, a total of around 300 planes [source:
