casablanca
I think I've misunderstood your comment and so I do apologize if you took it as an afront. My having only just read that the LH MD11 hit the runway hard on initial touchdown, and the following three successive touchdowns were progressively harder resulting in...well we know the rest.
It is recommended by Boeing that following a hard landing the crew should execute a go-around. I don't believe this is "the revelation", but believing all MD11 crews would be aware of that, my first reaction was who's teaching the addition of power to reduce sink rate following a hard landing? Yikes!!
I didn't mean to come across as the prophet of aviation. I'm anything but.
The first time I landed an MD11, I pulled all three into reverse and was surprised by the sudden and immediate raising of the nose despite being warned. From that day onward I've held the belief that this tendancy could easily lead to disaster. Why? Because you have to work around the tendancy.
Is that something we as pilots like to see in our aircraft?
I personally don't think it is.
Otherwise, it's a fantastic machine.
I recall vaguely the World one, but it seems to me there was another speed related incident at KBOS. Alitalia? SAS? I'll have to do some more research.