What a lot of tripe...the so called experts who love to jump on the negative bandwagon obviously know it is far easier to be negative and predict failure than it is to be positive and plan for the future....
Look at the following landing....it looks worse than the A380, lucky Avweb wasn't there to cover the landing, wonder if that moronic statement of "looks like the aeroplane might be usable still" would have been made after it.
The Boeing pilot states "in a short runway you just want to put the aeroplane down hard and early and get on the brakes and reverse thrust"...
YouTube - 727 Landing Meigs Field, Chicago Museum Science and Industry