Battling the Bounce
The NTSB is asking the FAA and Boeing to study aids that could help MD-11 pilots avoid hard and bounced landings in the trijets, which can lead to a broken wing spar and “rollover” on the runway. As of August 2012, the NTSB says the MD-11 had the highest rate of hard landings among 27 large Western...
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