Noteworthy accidents that have occured at YSSY?

[Noel White]

Originally Posted by Noel White

Another incident involved a PanAm B747SP from Melbourne that landed hard of RW 07 and forced the port outer undercarriage leg up through the wing and protruded out of top of the upper wing skin. Was able to taxy all the way to the ITB dragging the smoking twisted wheel assembly before an Qantas ground engineer was able to waved the pilot to stop short of the aerobridge. Similar incident to a Continental B747 that landed hard on RW16, turned onto the taxiway and could not proceed due to the damaged outer wheels.

Found a photo of the damaged u/c leg.