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Old 11th Jun 2013, 00:22
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DC10/MD11 has very poor crash performance resulting from a hard landing. IIRC main gear is attached to the wing spar and simply drives through it if the arrival is firm enough. FEDEX managed to lose a couple of aircraft at Tokyo and Newark due to botched arrivals.
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