I picked up the guy standing on that desert landing at Palmdale in the DC9 80 in a citation jet. He left the shoe for his broken foot in the airplane so delivered it to him the next day. The FAA guy was doing the landing and exceeded the required sink rate at touchdown. The Aloha 737 that blew it's top off came from our airline and I had hundreds of hours In it. You can see our paint job by the ripped off skin. The 787 will be fine once they work out a few problems. Most new models go through a growing process.