Thanks for the link, was an accident report published? I've tried searching the AAIB website under G-BLVH but nothing is appearing (and it's a similar case when I've tried yahoo).
If a report was published, it would have been by the GPIAA (Portuguese AIB), but there's nothing on their website for the incident, in fact very few reports from the 1980s as a whole.
Apparently the aircraftt spent a couple of months at Funchal being repaired by Boeing, was then ferried back to Gatwick at the end of October 1987 and went back into service shortly afterwards.
Part of the reason why no report was ever published was because Air Europe took home the FDR and "forgot" to hand it over to INAC (no GPIAA back then).
It was Boeing people doing the repairs, yes, I met a "Mr Hammer" back then.
It was a Cpt Smith the unfortunate PF that day, fortunately no one was hurt.
The fuselage, beneath the door was bent upward. I think the avionics bay had to be taken out, I remember lots of wires hanging around, when I went inside the plane.
I have pictures of the damage, if anyone is interested just send me a pm.