Originally Posted by
wingview
At Faro the decent rate was lower, but landed only on the RMLG which (with a high G-force) broke, wingtip hit the surface and the rest is history.
I recently spoke to a MD11 cpt who is also curios about this accident (due to the very high bounce), but also the ZSPD one.
One of the big causes of the Faro accident was the reducing of thrust to idle at 150 feet leading to a descent rate of 1000'/min which could not be arrested during a last second intervention of power by the captain(they were in a thunderstorm at the time).
Apparently the landing technique on the DC-10 with and without CWS is significantly different and the fact that the CWS was turned off quite low may have led to the abrupt flare.