Thread: MD11 Hong Kong Domicile
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Old 04-11-2010, 06:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Busboy View Post
Care to give a few examples? Just off the top of my head, I can't think of another widebody having a wing break off during ANY landing. And, I'm sure that the MD-11 is not the only aircraft that has had the pilot "unload the elevator" after a bounce, in the last 40 years.
It's true. Pilots of Boeing and Airbus designed aircraft have never, in the history of aviation, unloaded the elevator after a bounce. That is why the wings on those planes never break off.
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