Flying coffin

Flying coffin is a pejorative term for an aircraft perceived by crews or the public to have a poor safety record or low combat effectiveness.

Commercial aircraft

• McDonnell Douglas DC-10, an American trijet wide-body aircraft
• Boeing 737 MAX, an American narrow-body airliner

Military aircraft

First World War and earlier

• Airco DH.4, a British two-seat biplane day bomber also called a "flaming coffin" with original fuel tank configuration
• Airco DH.6, a British military trainer biplane used by the Royal Flying Corps
• Georges Levy G.L.40, a three-seated French, amphibious biplane
• Hansa-Brandenburg D.I, also known as the KD (Kampf Doppeldecker) was a German fighter aircraft
• Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2, a British single-engine tractor two-seat biplane also called "Fokker fodder"

Interwar period

• Brewster F2A Buffalo, an American fighter aircraft which saw service early in World War II
• Potez 540, a French multi-role aircraft which saw service in the Spanish Civil War

Second World War

• Consolidated B-24 Liberator, an American long-range heavy bomber
• Curtiss C-46 Commando, a twin-engine pressurized high-altitude transport aircraft
• Heinkel He 177 Greif, a long-range heavy bomber flown by the Luftwaffe also called a "flaming coffin"
• Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-3, a Soviet fighter aircraft built extensively with wood
• Martin B-26 Marauder, an American twin-engined medium bomber

1945–present

• Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, an American Cold War-era single-engine, supersonic interceptor aircraft also used by the German Air Force
• Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21, a Soviet supersonic jet fighter and interceptor aircraft

See also

• Coffin corner (disambiguation)
• Widow maker (disambiguation)