LDA
I had a chat with somebody who works in Ib. Im told that the runway is tight for a A340 at the best of times with many landings being " rough " . On previous occassions in the last months there have been long delays for IB with tests conducted on undercarraige.
I am a PPL so dont know what the shortfield approach procedure is in that plane . But it sounded to me like it was plonk it onto the runway as early and slow as possible. I am told that many of the landings there are a bit " bumpy " and thats not SLF bumpy but crew bumpy.
If the runways is tight in terms of LDA and they blew a few tires on a wet surface its easy to imagine how it all went pear shaped. Im not sure how one factor effects the other.
The plane is a write off with the airframe badly twisted.