I’m pretty sure the adage is “any landing you can walk away from is a good one” but sometimes it doesn’t work that way. Most pilots will tell you that landing is harder than taking off. I flew in Twin Otters for many years with a pilot who had a different take on this. He maintained that landings are easy; you are flying and you don’t want to be flying. Takeoffs on the other hand; you are not flying and you want to be. That’s not so easy. That has been my experience as well, at least with one aircraft.
Fully one third of my takeoffs in a Basler have ended badly. A Basler (officially a BT-67) is a converted DC-3 or the military version, the C-47 with a large cargo/jump door. The conversion included turbo-props and new avionics. The Baslers we use in the Antarctic are fitted with skis as can be seen in the photo above. They are usually attached. Enough people have asked me the story that I thought it was time to write it down.