Originally Posted by
wingview
The media I believe even less.
You will have to extend the disbelief to the Saudi investigators, as they are being quoted in the news:
"When landing at King Khaled International Airport, the aircraft struck the runway which destroyed the undercarriage and caused it to slide off the track," the head of Saudi Arabia's civil aviation security said in a statement.
"The impact caused a fire in the aircraft," Abel Rahman Bukhari said based on the preliminary results of the investigation into Tuesday's accident involving the German carrier.
AFP: Bad landing caused Lufthansa plane crash: Saudi