Originally Posted by
Huck
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.
Is that young lady still with the company, BTW?