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Old 23rd Mar 2009, 23:10
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Absolutely

The Md-11 and Dc-10 have bogies and a Center gear that are aft of the CG. Assuming, windshear advisory they were flying into a slight angled crosswind at 40kt they were 10 kt above calculated speed, windshear, overrotation and roll input to compensate driving the mlg and cg harder into the ground.

Followed by

Loss of A/S, possible elevator input from a late reaction fatally driving the nose into the ground and a 2nd bounce off the mains, lost enough a/s to come down with the left wing stalled out (cross wind/ or W/S adding to the situation).

I have experienced similar sucessfull landings in a DC-10-30 and a MD-11.
Dc-10-30 F/O landing, below G/S. Attempts to compensate with a too late flare, heard 30 on the R.A callout the 2nd time around bouncing and landing hard in a 1 wing stall.

Md-11, Windshear at 30 R.A., full aileron input to compensate no help, hard landing on one gear, allmost scraped the eng.
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