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I was in a plane that landed sideways like that in a sidewind at Belfast once, a Viscount I think, propjet anyway. The lateral wiggle and snake down the runway before the thing was running straight enough to apply reverse thrust seemed to go on for ever. Just a tiny bit alarming it was. And it didn't stop until the very end of the runway, most unusual that. The silence in the cabin, normal during landing or takeoff, was unusually deep and electric.
Last edited by: Armel Coussine on Sat 15 Dec 12 at 22:07
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I had a similar experience once on a flight back from Amsterdam in a 737. I could see the runway numbers, piano keys and lights from my window seat as we approached, and we were descending almost in a series of "steps".
As AC notes above, the cabin silence was very noticeable.
This is when pilots really earn their money.
Last edited by: DP on Sat 15 Dec 12 at 22:48
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Scary, even though the first clip is from April :-)
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I've experienced (what seemed to me) a couple of precarious landings.
1. I was sitting near the tail of the 'plane and saw the fuselage twist on touchdown, several lockers also opened.
2. I swear a wingtip touched the ground on a particularly windy day at Stansted. I tried to walk that side, but was stopped and forcibly moved into the terminal when I paused to have a longer look for evidence.
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A few weeks ago I was driving back from Stoke to Leicester on a very windy afternoon. Approaching the M1 from the A50 I watched a 'plane abort a landing about 400ft from East Mids airport and go back up for another try - I thought to myself how glad I was not to be on it.
Back in Leicester I phoned a colleague, only to find he'd not long landed at EMA from Edinburgh after they'd had three attempts at it in the wind... He was fine, but he said some passengers had been screaming and others were physically sick!
Last edited by: Dave_TDCi on Sat 15 Dec 12 at 23:27
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I was in a holiday flight during the final stages of a normal landing when the pilot applied full power, climbed and turned rapidly prompting screams from several passengers. The pilot announced "Sorry folks, the aircraft that landed in front of us was a bit slow getting off the runway. I will let him get himself sorted out and we will be landing in a few minutes." There were a few sheepish looking "screamers" after landing. The most scary landing civil landing I have had was a shuttle from Washington to Orlando landing in a tropical storm. The Noise abatement take off from Washington is interesting, throttling back dramatically immediately after leaving the ground. Remember the plane that crashed into the Potomac river soon after take off a few years ago?
Last edited by: Old Navy on Sun 16 Dec 12 at 08:41
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>>>Remember the plane that crashed into the Potomac river soon after take off a few years ago?<<<
tinyurl.com/79kz6k
Remember it well. I was in the States at the time. Thhe day after the crash, I was in a 737-200 flying from Milwaukee to Washington, with a stop in Cleveland. Passengers had newspapers open on their laps with pictures of the bits in ther Potomac. When we came to takeoff at Cleveland, in freezing conditions and blowing snow, we had an aborted takeoff halfway down the runway. The pilot came on and announced that 'the engines were not giving all the power he expected' and that he was going to 'have another go.' We U turned, he went back to the beginning of the runway and and then sucessfully took off. You could have heard a pin drop in the silence between the odd passenger screams.:)
I was subsequently told by a hostess that there was no way the crew wanted to stay in Cleveland, ( known as 'the mistake on the lake'), and that the airport was about to be closed, but the pilot had the discretion on takeoff if he was still on the runway.
An experience!
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Nowadays you can score the approach and landing from inside the passenger cabin:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R35Syw49yHA
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Had a couple of aborted landings, first was at a private airfield. We were just about to touch down when the pilot powered up and flew back around for a second attempt - apparently there was a light aircraft still on the runway.
Second was into heathrow in a storm. It was silent in the cabin as we approached, and just before touchdown we performed a go-around. Typical BA - the awfully well spoken pilot come over the intercom "Terribly sorry about that Ladies and Gentlemen, cats and dogs down there this evening, so we are just going to pop back up and have another go" I found his somewhat calm attitude quite relaxing
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First air trip I ever did we were coming into Heathrow from Amsterdam with BA on a filthy and very windy November evening and from the window it looked like we were almost sideways on. We landed with a sort of twist and a lurch and some bumps. The guy in the next seat - he was a travel writer, I was just on a freebie - said 'wow, that was a bit hairy wasn't it?'. I said 'I dunno - I've never done this before'.
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I don't think the screaming was caused by the pilot being a female for the go around I mentioned earlier. :-)
Last edited by: Old Navy on Sun 16 Dec 12 at 12:48
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The planes in Madeira do it as well.... see attached link.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq9WrCFqmbI
The windshear off the mountains affecting the approach is notorious among pilots and the airport runway shown is considerably longer now than it used to be....
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Mike,
Something like this one in Hamburg a couple of years ago? I think the wing actually grounded but the pilot was able to take off again and land safely on a different runway.
www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en&v=nNR0a4TMxeA&gl=EN
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The Planes in Spain fall mostly ......... - Armel Coussine
