Thats a tough airplane. I've got about 10,000 hours on it and have had a few "hard" landings and yea, panels do come off in the cabin but they're held up by not much more than "velcro" and the overhead bins come open but everyone survived. I've had blown tires on landing and still we all survived. I think the media always exagerates stories like this just to sell their news. But the DC-10 is getting old and probably can't take it like it used to and they are gas hungry and new planes are more effecient but they're still cheap. Fedex uses them and will continue until they have a hundred thousand hours or more. Most that get retired have over 50,000 hours.....just MHO....