In article ,
Ron Garret wrote:

Or did I just miss it?


This is from one of my closest friends, who is a FEDEX Captain and
knows the MD11 quite well:

"There is no consensus yet about the MD-11 crash, all we know is that
the conditions were very windy with high gusts. My own questions run
around the issue of the known or suspected lack of pitch authority in
the landing regime and/or whether they may have landed with the
engines unspooled because of the gusts. Either way I stand by my
initial and long standing feeling that the MD-11 is a snake bit piece
of sh*t. Like Dennis Miller says, "That's just my opinion I could be
wrong"."

Pogue