"Because two heavy jet driver's suddenly forgot their Day 1 PPL Training and shoved the nose of an MD11 towards the ground...Don't you think handling a bugsmasher and something like an MD11 after a "bounce" just may have slightly different techniques?
But how silly of all of us. Of course that's what it was.
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Maybe these pilots renembered their specific MD11 training (Pushing to counter the pitch up tendency due to the spoilers and fly the nosewheel activ into the ground) and overcontrolled a little bit under extreme difficult circumstances.
Greetings Thomas
flying little Bugsmackers
but also renembering that a specific aircraft has specific handling characteristics.
EDIT: German study regarding
elevator control in B737, A320 and MD11