Instant experts, again!
The "instant experts" seem to have this one wrapped up! As it was an MD11, the usual comments about it being a bit of a challenge to land have been trotted out. Rubbish! I have several thousand hours on the MD11, including training and checking, and it is a beautiful aircraft which is no more difficult to land than most other heavy jets. It will bite the incompetent, however, like most aircraft. If the stories about an in-flight fire before landing are correct, the cause should be not too hard to find, but we still have to put up with the the MD11 knockers who prefer to blame the aircraft. Good to see that the crew escaped OK!