That was definately a ground contact with the tail cone. You can see the smoke coming from the tail. Glad nothing worse happened.
"Every landing the pilot can walk away from, is a good landing" and if you can use the plane again, even better.
I thought I'd posted a comment about the US F-35C that crashed off Car Vinson, but I seem to have forgotten to... In any case, a video of the ramp strike has leaked online: https://theaviationist.com/2022/02/06/f-35c-ramp-strike-video-leaked-online/ Scary stuff!
A Boeing 737-800NG has crashed in China. Operated by China Eastern it was flying from Kunming to Guangzhou. All 132 onboard perished after the aircraft plummeted at high speed into a mountain.
There is some rather disturbing CCTV video online purported to be of the crash... to say that it crashed into a mountain is an understatement.
Forgot to report on this one...One of DHL Aero Espresso Boeing 757-27AP2Fs met its demise a few days ago in Costa Rica at at the Juan SantaMaria airport. https://www.airport-technology.com/news/dhl-aircraft-crash-costa-rica-airport/
A Tibet Airlines Airbus A319 catches on fire after it veered off the runway at Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport in southwest China. Thankfully after coming to a stop all 113 passenger and 9 crew were able to evacuate the aircraft. There have been some reports of injuries during the evacuation process.