“1,110 fpm is about 30% more than max sink rate at touchdown for a carrier landing.”
But carrier planes are specially strengthened to take that impact, which means that was WAY MORE than an airliner should be doing.
I know. But when I first saw the "1,110 fpm" number, I thought "that's suicide!" Then I did a little mental math, and realized it's less than 13 mph. Then I looked up the max sink rate for a carrier landing, and saw that it's not that far out of the ballpark.
I was thinking she had been a carrier pilot, perhaps. Probably not.
Anyway, it totaled the plane, so it could very easily have become "suicide." Just luck it wasn't.