I stumbled onto this... quite interesting... (looks like one of my normal landings!)
In 1971 a 747 took out some of the approach lighting on takeoff at SFO... the video below discusses and shows the incredible damage and the emergency 'landing'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl_wXfSwRzM
There's a brief but interesting essay at Wikipedia re this accident:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_845
Sounds like a sequence of improbable (and independent?) errors were required to create this accident.
Here is another strange KSFO incident from earlier times. A DC-8 landed on the water, sank, got repaired and flew again!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_2
Awesome find Jon - I've heard of that accident and read the report - but never knew we had film of the landing.
Imagine going down the L1 slide - but better than burning up I spose...
There was a similar accident in June 1975 near JFK(this one on landing) when a 727 came in during a thunderstorm and encountered windshear. The pilots didn't execute a GA and struck approach lighting on the way in severely damaging the plane and causing it to crash going across Rockaway Blvd in Queens. Unfortunately in this accident many were killed. I believe this led to the introduction of frangible approach lighting. It was EA Flt 66.