Performance : The MD-88 has the same weights , range , and airfield performance as the other long-body aircraft ( MD-82 and MD-83 ) and is powered by the same engines . MDC quotes a typical range for the MD-88 as with 155 passengers . Adding two additional auxiliary fuel tanks increases its 155-passenger range to ( similar to the MD-83 ) . A '' Wall Street Journal '' article about the crash of Delta Air Lines Flight 1086 at New York City 's LaGuardia Airport in March 2015 stated that " pilots and other safety experts have long known that when the MD-88 's reversers are deployed , its rudder ... sometimes may not be powerful enough to control deviations to the left or right from the center of a runway ... safety board investigators , among other things , are looking to see if this tendency played any role in the crash . . "
Delta Air Lines Flight 1086
Delta Air Lines Flight 1086
McDonnell Douglas MD-80