(swiss air is still a mystery)
Trying to be gentle as all other incidents I know of were pilot error. Probably the reason why (other than this topic being a dead horse) has not received a pilot answer yet. I am Sure the topic poster counted swiss air into his statement of hulls lost, so it is applicable.
My curiosity is centered on the lack of a complete investigation into FDX flt80 @ Narita. Seems odd a year has gone by plus some and a crash that had recorders found, video to watch and all pieces of aircraft accounted for had not been finalized.
That accident was not the result of the typical MD11 hard landing then flip
The bounce and flip should be a fedex trademark, Having only happened twice (EWR & narita), (corrected, oops I see air china has one as well)
The only TYPICAL problem that still remains despite FCC program changes is a pitch up upon ground spoiler deployment that is more harsh than in the DC-10 and most other airframes. As long as the pilot is aware of this tendency it becomes an operational characteristic that the pilot should be proficient in compensating for