@Winnerhofer
When the article starts with a "Martinair Boeing 707" I stop reading
@mary meagher
There is no more pax MD11 since over a year. KLM was the last one. As far as I know there is also no commercial airliner flying pax DC-10.
Anyway, new or old gear wouldn't have changed this accident. For both it exceeded the structural limitations of the gear.
Further more, who's to blame? If they made a GA it probably didn't end up like it did, but the same for the wind shear, if that didn't occur they probably landed save.
This accident is similar to the CI MD11 accident although they ignored the max crosswind component. The other similar landing accidents were bouncers.