Originally Posted by
Smythe
I dont see many posts on how it happened, just the results of what happened. They landed hard enough to explode all of the rear landing gear tires and push the nose gear up through the fuselage. No conjecture, it is there in the images.
I'm sure the preliminary will be out soon enough. There were some unconfirmed passenger reports of a bounced landing, and we all know how those can be mishandled. There was also a report that the engines being driven to a high power setting by the damage, so I may be that the brake energy limits were exceeded in trying to stop the aircraft. It is quite possible that the main gear tires deflated because the thermal plugs gave way after the plane was stopped.