Lion Air 739 Hard Landing
 

Link to photos on pprune... yikes!:

Lion Air Hard Landing with a Tail Strike - PPRuNe Forums

Those guys know how to get it done.. and by get it done, I mean wreck 737s.

Hit the ground so hard the tires compressed enough to damage the wheels themselves?

Damn. Surprised there aren't considerably more injuries.

Garuda should get a pretty penny from them for the additional damage...just glad that happened during landing and not takeoff.

Sink rate…sink rate. Ouch!

I just sent my app for hiring in the near future.

This was posted somewhere else (I can't remember), but it is certainly appropriate to this discussion.

http://flightsafety.org/fsd/fsd_aug04.pdf

Another Lion Air plane landed 5 hours later and blew tires because they did not clear the runway of all the fod.