Originally Posted by fedupbusdriver
When is the company going to admit that the md11 and the md10 are two separate animals, and start teaching 11 crews the landing differences?
They land differently, but that doesn't mean the gear should collapse on a hard landing. Look at the landings - on the runway - in MD-11 or MD-10 - that resulted in hull loss or nearly so --- LANDING GEAR COLLAPSE. A number of DC-10's and variants of that design have experienced failed landing gear, including a FedEx MD-11 accident at Newark in 1997 and a Mandarin Airlines MD-11 landing at Hong Kong in 1999, and a FedEx MD-10 loss at MEM in 2003.(jumpseaters said it wasn't that hard of a landing, but there was some side forces due to crosswind)... and now again in Memphis.
Do you remember the June 2005 incident at Louisville where a UPS MD-11 nosegear broke up as a result of "hard derotation"? How hard do you have to de-rotate to do that?
I'm sure there's more out there about gear failures from other MD-11 users. Any one know of others?