MD11 crash in Riyadh update, not good news.
#21
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Joined APC: Apr 2019
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I flew the DC10 for 10 years and just loved the old girl didn't take any skill to land well at all. Could have flown the MD11, but was too lazy to change. Sorry to hear so much bad stuff about the MD 11, planes are supposed to get better not worse. I worked for a while picking up broken airplanes. Usually when a plane hits hard enough to break its back the tires blow often as not catch fire. If the pilots thought they had a problem they would have called for the fire trucks. Wheel fires usually get put out quickly. There is a lot we don't know here.
Last edited by pooch817; 04-10-2019 at 10:02 AM.
#22
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Belay that last I thought the accident had just occurred. Must have really hit hard. My experience picking up broken backs is they seldom burn. Either inflammable cargo, fuel tank rupture or the fire trucks took their sweet time getting there.
#24
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There is a lot I don't know as I have not read the report nor have flown the airplane. I had thought that this was a recent crash. The MD11 was fresh on the property when I was still flying. The 10 was such a gentle creature I could not imagine the 11 being otherwise.
#25
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The MD11 flies quite nicely too. What it doesn't tolerate is shoving the nose forward during a bounced landing, which has been the cause of most of the MD11 mishaps, when the aircraft enters a destructive pilot induced divergent phugoid oscillation. The pilot simply hammers the aircraft to death against the runway, instead of landing. It lands just fine.
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