PAPI usage

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Originally Posted by bubbers44

I flew an MD80 FAA technical engineer standing during a no flare landing to a Calif. hospital airport when he broke his ankle with the impact. The FAA pilot did the landing on a max GW landing test and exceded the descent rate slightly at Palmdale and we flew him from Fox field to SNA. Unfortunately he left his shoe in the Citation Jet so had to deliver it to him the next day. I think that landing broke the fuselage behind the wing and almost fell off back in the 70's.

I've seen a video clip of that landing. A portion of the fuselage did fall off and skid along on the round.

Here's the video clip:

Here's the video clip.