DC9 ARC = Abnormal Rwy Contact
Here's some historic ARC-damage mishaps for DC9 --
Overseas National / 3May69 DC9 N934F, military cargo, hard landing & bounced, Keel Extrusion fracture, wrinkled skin.
EAL DC9-31 N8961E FLL 18May72, heavy rain with TRW; hard landing, fracture of aft fuselage and tail separation. [See DC-9 mid-fuselage fractures of 26Mar92, 30Mar92, and 27Dec87; and bent eng mts of Feb'87; and T-tail separation of 2May80.]
DC-9 Super 80 [MD80] N980DC #1 test ship 2May80 hard landing accident during flight test; Edwards AFB California.
Garuda / 11Jun84 DC9-30 Reg PK-GNI Jakarta, Indonesia; hard landing, severe structural damage.
25Feb87 SAS DC9-41 SE-DAT hard landing at Trondheim; bounced & G/A. Engine mounts deformed, Fuselage cracked. [Flt Int'l]
Eastern / 27Dec87 DC9-31 N9848E at 11:39pm, hard landing at Pensacola Regional Airport, split fuselage section. … After first touchdown aircraft bounced forty feet, then on second touchdown fuselage broke open just aft of wing root; and impact drove the nose LG into fuselage (no tires burst). Circumferential split (see AW photo), aft section of fuselage dragged along runway. [AW 128:68-9 Ja 4 '88]
Intercontinental de Aviacion / 26Mar92 DC9-15 HK-2864X hard landing Tumaco, Columbia: Fuselage cracked near Wing T.E.
Aviaco / 30Mar92 DC9-32 EC-BYH hard landing at Granada Spain; fuselage broke off aft of Wing T.E.
ValueJet / 7Jan96 DC9-32 N922VV hard landing at Nashville: on final approach to Rwy 2R Ground Spoilers deployed while still airborne; high sink rate; touchdown short of threshold; substantial damage to aft fuselage, empennage, flaps, slats, and both engines. // NTSB rec’md FAA req’ airlines review cold-weather nosegear servicing … Cold T/O from ATL, NLG strut failed to extend (no air/grnd shift): preventing LG retraction and cabin pressurization. Checklist instructed pilots to open the Grnd Cntrl Relay C/B; flt continued to BNA. Grnd Spoilers deployed when C/B was reset while still airborne. \\ AW&ST, Jul 1’96, pg31; Dec 16’96, pg 30.