Originally Posted by tdracer
Roughly ten years ago, Cargolux had a really hard landing of a fairly new 747-8F - supposedly upwards of 2.5g. Did so much damage they considered scraping the aircraft (reportedly cost over $100 million to repair). I never heard the story behind it - but that funny upslope might explain why it happened...
ISTR that the aircraft involved in that event suffered the damage downroute somewhere and the bent back end was not noticed for quite a few days until an engineering inspection spotted it.