Hi Chaps,
Forgive my intrusion into your fascinating
MD11/A340 argument, but just want to point out that the moderate winds quoted in
Green Guard's #25 are
not for the probable day of the incident, so they are irrelevant.
When this Thread was started on the evening of the 14th, I dug out the strongest winds for the 13th and 14th, on the assumption that the hard landing had happened in the previous 36 hours. [I didn't have access to anything older.] I then posted them immediately (post #2).
As you can see from
JuniorMan's #4, the incident seems to have taken place on or before Mar 11th.
Sorry not to be more helpful.