I have extensive flight experience in the MD10-10, MD-10-30 and MD-11 aircraft.
There is nothing intrinsically wrong in the landing characteristics of the MD-10. They're just old, and we land them at or very near max landing weight, typically.
And we make a lot of turns on our ramps that pax carriers don't. It's not uncommon to make five or more 90 decree turns in a cramped parking area in Memphis. It's got to be hard on the gear.
This does indeed look remarkably like the strut failure that occurred in 2006. We shall see.