This incident is reminding me of AA191 from the seventies. It was a DC10, a bit older and not exactly like an MD11, but close enough. A shortcut in the procedure of mounting the engine after a maintenance check damaged the engine mount. The engine separated and damaged the flight controls and hydraulics, and the slats retracted on one side only. This caused an asymmetrical wing stall, unrecoverable bank angle, and an unsurvivable impact on the ground

There was also El Al 1862 in the nineties. That one was material fatigue in one of the 747 engine fuse pins, leading to the separation of right inboard engine and the subsequent impact and loss of the right outboard engine next to it. This compromised the hydraulic system, and once again the slats retract, the wing stalls, and the plane goes down. Because of this incident they’ve identified and resolved that defect and methodology, but i do wonder about counterfeit parts. To the best of my knowledge the NTSB has been struggling with shady parts suppliers selling second hand and counterfeit parts as OEM. It’s mostly limited to smaller carriers and independent operators, but I doubt any supply chain is 100% secure.

Whatever words are spent on this one, at the end of the day it’s gonna be mostly speculation until the NTSB report comes out in the next 1-3 years. Somehow (so far anyway) the NTSB has escaped regulator capture in this oligarchy, so the report should be pretty accurate