Originally Posted by FliFast

I was just on another site where Lufthansa issued a statement praising the pilots for averting a disaster.

I'm not really sure I would agree. As a monday morning quarterback, it looked like a somewhat unstable approach followed by poor rudder and aileron technique resulting in a unstable flare and rollout and a subsequent wingtip strike.

I guess it could have been worse is what Lufthansa is contending.

FF