S80, B707, B727, B757, B767, B777, DC8, DC10.  Comanche owner

New Captain S80 first trip 2nd day LGA Shea stadium approach passing over the dike the bottom fell out. Hard but not damaging hard. Waited at the door took my beating until retirement never had it happen again with my hands on the controls. First officer landing in South America that was a different story. New FO 100 hours good weather clear he had a reasonably decent touchdown (767) then he slammed the nose down full throw. The force was severe enough requiring some skin replacement on the crown. It has since happened on 4 767's for major air carriers. Three were hull loses. If I had my hands on the controls I could not have prevented the unexpected force that was exerted. When he was asked why he threw full downward elevator during the main gear skip. He simply said; "that's what the 767 manual tells you to do." The manual said in a crosswind put the nose gear, "rapidly on the ground." It does not say uncoil your arms and torso like a striking snake. He was very tall and had very long arms. It turned out he had under a hundred hours FO in type. During the flight down he implied he was a long time on the machine. In this incident I learned that without a doubt when the FO is flying the leg he is flying on your license. I had extensive experience with hearings as the base chairmen of a 4000 person base. So perhaps the best part of the story was the after incident stuff, I called the chief pilot he asked; first question if anyone was hurt as a matter of fact it was not a discernible hard landing normally distributed to a plane via the main gear. The damage was translated to the crown skin of the aircraft by the force between the main gear and the nose gear. That is not even the best part of the experience I knew from my chairmanship and hearing expertise to take charge of the voice and flight recorders - to my surprise the mechanics gave them to me; 12 hours later for the trip home.. I also knew that debrief and drug test would be imminent. I advised the system chief pilot to book 3 first class seats home for for us. Brought the flight recorder in the over head bin. That created an international front page every newspaper incident; recalling one head line "Gringo insults Brazil." the Company was extremely supportive the feds dismissed immediately me as a non problem. Flight recorder showed a startling anomaly that the elevator was manipulated so fast that a split elevator signal was sent to the flight recorder.. Boeing well that is another story. My system Chief, nick named me fang because I bit into Boeing pretty hard threatening to make them more famous then they were. If you are ever involved in an incident keep your cool, zip the lips as you exclusively knew what happened and the flight recorder is your best friend. Show no fear as you know more then anyone else whats next- take charge. Get all the paper work together do not let it go like sleep with it. Then relax enjoying the couple of free paid days off. I suggest that this narrative will make you feel much better.