Dodgy landings

jester77

I've had a few scary landings in my time, but I wouldn't have liked to have been on this attempted landing here in Hamburg at the weekend :eek:

Nice pic of it here

I remember one time landing in Stockholm, sitting over the wing looking out and I thought the wing was going to clip the runway from the way we landed, rough landing. Think that was the worse I had!

Anyone have a near miss?

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

now that looks scary

Miguel_Sanchez

Never had a dodgy landing but had a bizarre take-off once.

Flying to Boston about 12 years ago. The plane started accelerating down the runway and then after about a minute the brakes were slammed on and we slowed and came to a stop. The pilot comes on the intercom saying "sorry about that folks, thought we could make it out between those two planes landing but looks like we can't." People laughed.

Rob_l

Best landing was flying into koh samui airport plane looks so close tot he trees as it flies into the runway that it might clip them best aiurport too.

Most of the time I only wake during landings and always wonder why the takeoff is so rough am always pleasantly surprised to be where I should

zuutroy

Check out the old Kai Tak airport in Hong Kong for crazy landings. There's like a 45 degree turn about 20 seconds before touchdown..Here's a guy that had to do it with engine trouble....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTl1nQ9bO1Y

ImDave

Best one I ever had was a go around on final approach into dublin. The aircraft which had just landed ahead didnt clear off the runway on time. We were only 200 or so feet of the ground, but nothing really dodgy about it. Fairly standard procedure

Radharc na Sleibhte

jester77 wrote: »

I've had a few scary landings in my time, but I wouldn't have liked to have been on this attempted landing here in Hamburg at the weekend :eek:

Holy crap!!!!!!
Thankfully, I have never experienced anything too bad.

drdre

OMG, I wouldnt want to be on that .

Heisenberg.

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BKtje

That was some amount of wind. Never had anything that bad :eek:

dfx-

Remember landing in Dublin from Heathrow in an A321 on New Years Eve night 2003 and the plane really really struggling on the descent and keeping straight on the runway.

Also remember being on an aborted Ryanair take off from Blackpool when the tyres hit a stone on the tarmac while accelerating..and that was scary, but not quite that :eek:

Krieg

Never had too much of a rough landing personally.
There is an airport, I think its called 'st maartens airport' and its on a small island.
Anyway, the runway is tiny meaning that the planes landing have to apply breaks immediatly after landing. It gets better, there is a road right beside the start of the runway for normal traffic and the planes (Which include large planes such as 747's I believe), fly about 20-30ft above the road just before landing.
I cant access you-tube through here (college), but theres loads of videos and pictures.

Edit: here we go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAfQwDizpRo

Bendihorse

I was on that same plane flight no BA038 from beijing to heathrow that crashed a week before it happened, thats been my closest call in relation to a flying, plenty close enough too thanks!

leninbenjamin

that's insane. them pilots have some amazing skills to have been able to rectify that.

sunnyjim

I had a bad one landing in Vienna in January.

While we were approaching, I was thinking to myself "Odd, I can see planes taking off, must have a few runways" Nothing strange, right?

So on final approach, and were passing red and white beacons, and the plane is getting quite low, I was expecting touchdown in about, oh, 15 seconds. Then 10... And then the engines ran up to what sounded like "Super-200%-megapower" (trust me on that word, I'm a scientist :cool:), and we shot back upwards at what felt like vertical.

Pilot comes on to announce that there was a communications failure between the ground and the plane, or something like that.

**** me!

My girlfriend didn't notice a thing though!

Board-in-work

I'm sure the airport runways criss-crosses (no not the band) ...... a golf course in Bangkok. Strange to see guys playing golf oblivious to 747's landing nearby.

Another time in Havana, the plane landed hard, and I woke up in a wild panic, only to be consoled some Cuban granny sitting next to me - couldn't understand a word, but she was very worried about me!

Danbo!

Dodgy take-off once at dublin airport (well it was a fine take off, just some passengers shítting themselves..) The air conditioning was on and there was a very fine mist in the cabin. Have seen this before, so no panic. taxied out to the runway and, as the pilot applies full throttle, the mist starts pumping into the cabin. So we're shooting down the runway, about half the passengers played it cool while the others thought it was smoke. People screaming "stop the plane" and "shít were going to die!!" girl in front of me took off her seatbelt, turned around and hugged the back of her seat while screaming in my face. So I laughed right back in her face. Id say if you were scared half to death and some blokes laughing in your face itd be kinda wierd. the plane takes off and the air hostess is climbing up the aisle shouting at everyone to relax. and after all that, the pilot comes on and says "We believe there was some panic in the cabin, we've checked our systems and everything seems to be fine." rather than saying, "it was just air conditioning."

Search "crosswind landings" in youtube, first result.. great video

Guy:Incognito

How come theres always footage of these landigns? Is there people that just sit at the end of runways with video cameras/phones? Do they do it in Dublin?

Overheal

Stekelly wrote: »

How come theres always footage of these landigns? Is there people that just sit at the end of runways with video cameras/phones? Do they do it in Dublin?

Theres always someone waiting to board an airplane, sitting at a terminal, with a camera. We call them 'tourists'

Nightwish

Yes they're planespotters. In Dublin they're usually parked along the road near St Margarets.

bluto63

Closest call I've had was pilot over shot the runway and had to go back up. More of an inconvenience than anything else :mad:

Alun

I remember an interesting landing at Charleroi, or as Ryanair laughingly call it 'Brussels South'.

Anyway we were descending quite quickly as if we were almost about to land, but then when I looked out of the right hand side windows and I could see we were travelling parallel to, but a good few metres away from the main runway. We got lower and lower and eventually were just about to fly above the houses that aren't too far away from the end of the runway. Then, all of a sudden, the pilot did U-turn to the right, the plane's wings were almost vertical, stall alarms going off all over the place, stuff falling out of lockers, I swear the wing tip was about to touch the ground below (OK, slight exaggeration!) , then he flicked it back to horizontal and then *thump* we landed.

Basically it transpired that the wind was in the wrong direction, and because there were regulations about not flying too low over the houses at the end of the runway, this was all he was allowed to do .. at least that was their explanation. There were some very green looking faces coming off the plane, I can tell you.

kelle

Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »

Never had a dodgy landing but had a bizarre take-off once.

Flying to Boston about 12 years ago. The plane started accelerating down the runway and then after about a minute the brakes were slammed on and we slowed and came to a stop. The pilot comes on the intercom saying "sorry about that folks, thought we could make it out between those two planes landing but looks like we can't." People laughed.

Exactly the same happened to me on an Aer lingus flight taking off from Schipol Airport in 1994. I was after being to Asia and Australia and this was my final flight before returning home!
Scary video. Can't imagine what was going through the minds of the poor passengers!

- bo -

Well this is just fantastic, Im a nervous flyer and am flying from Dublin tomorrow, nice...

GLaDOS

- bo - wrote: »

Well this is just fantastic, Im a nervous flyer and am flying from Dublin tomorrow, nice...

What were you expecting with the thread title?

eldeabroad

I once went into a very old house and the stairs all creaked so much, I thought I would fall through them, thankfully the landing was close...

Sherifu

ScienceNerd wrote: »

What were you expecting with the thread title?

Housing market?

Red Alert

Shows you they shouldn't have let women fly planes!

GLaDOS

Red Alert wrote: »

Shows you they shouldn't have let women fly planes!

LOL!

Clytus

Did the planes wing tip strike the runway???

Looks like it may have...could see a bit of dust being flicked up.

Now we know why ATC give pilots the wind speed,direction and gust strenghts just prior to landing.

Bet the pilot could be in trouble.

eldeabroad

looks like the pilot was drunk, wonder if they tested his alco-mo-hol levels after "the incident"

Ruddy Jimbo

- bo - wrote: »

Well this is just fantastic, Im a nervous flyer and am flying from Dublin tomorrow, nice...

Im a nervous flyer myself!I was in Manchester airport in 1997 when that plane had to make a crash landing...i was about to board my flight just after it came in...my flight was delayed 4 hours...i was bricking myself coming into land in Dublin later that night :eek:

Sherifu

- bo - wrote: »

Well this is just fantastic, Im a nervous flyer and am flying from Dublin tomorrow, nice...

Don't read this:
http://starbulletin.com/2008/02/24/news/story02.html

homerjay2005

holy sh*t, that is unreal. and some of those youtube vids are crazy altogether. have had a few scares myself, but nothing major thank god. (tough wood)

- bo -

Ruddy Jimbo wrote: »

Im a nervous flyer myself!I was in Manchester airport in 1997 when that plane had to make a crash landing...i was about to board my flight just after it came in...my flight was delayed 4 hours...i was bricking myself coming into land in Dublin later that night :eek:

Funny enough its Manchester Im flying to...DUN DUN DUUN :eek:

Sherifu wrote: »

Don't read this:
http://starbulletin.com/2008/02/24/news/story02.html

*is tempted*
Nah I'll read it when I get home

IF I GET BACK HOME

pd101

I've had no bad landings, but on one flight the plane attempted to take of twice but couldn't. Ended up having to change planes. We got got third time lucky though.

Lump

Been watching "Air Crash investigations" Some A330 pilot lost both engines and guided the Jumbo for 80Km before pulling off a landing on a short runway. Good lad.

John

o1s1n

We had an aborted landing flying to New York. Really bad winds. Just as we were about to touch down, the wing almost clipped the runway. The plane took back off. We circles for another 15 minutes or so before the pilot attempted another landing.

The scary part was that the nobody actually made an announcement till about 5 minutes or so after the aborted landing. During this 5 minutes, while we were circling around to have another go at the runway, there was a moment when we were heading for downtown New York. With absolutely no clue what was going on.

Scary stuff :eek:

Danbo!

This is the vid i was talking about above, couldnt get it in work....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RdxU-0W-RE

Nightshiftguy

I remember in the late eighties flying from luton to dublin.. last flight allowed out of luton and last flight allowed into dublin.. due to storms.. well take of was hairy, flight was dire as for landing.. well only took 6 attempts.. was a scary scary time..

OPENROAD

Have not really had any bad landings although at the time they may have felt bad during heavy winds. Had a couple of go arounds at Heathrow, first time it did spook me a bit, an Air France plane still on the runway according to the pilot.

Have had a couple of bad take offs though, both from Heathrow, take off itself went fine but as we were climbing we experienced wake turbulence which was quite frightening, I now always try and check what type of plane is taking off just before us and if it is a large aircraft, always count the gap before we take off.

bronte

Had a scary one in Funchal airport, Madeira a few years back.
Tis a weird runway with a busy main road right beside it.
Some cool vids on youtube from there!

Steyr

Asbad wrote: »

Never had too much of a rough landing personally.
There is an airport, I think its called 'st maartens airport' and its on a small island.

Yup its Philipsburg / St. Maarten - Princess Juliana International (SXM / TNCM)
Netherlands Antilles.


Check these out..At Maho Beach

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Air-France/Airbus-A340-313X/1331394&photo_nr=6&prev_id=1331395&next_id=1331200

http://www.airliners.net/photo/US-Airways/Boeing-757-2B7/1331199&photo_nr=8&prev_id=1331200&next_id=1331198

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Amerijet-International/Boeing-727-233-Adv(F)/1328058&photo_nr=15&prev_id=1331007&next_id=NEXTID

http://www.airliners.net/photo/American-Airlines/Boeing-757-223/1322797&photo_nr=31&prev_id=&next_id=1322796

http://www.airliners.net/photo/American-Airlines/Boeing-757-223/1322797&photo_nr=31&prev_id=&next_id=1322796

http://www.airliners.net/photo/KLM---Royal/Boeing-747-406/1169903&photo_nr=192&prev_id=1169904&next_id=1169902

Now who said Aircraft spotting was boring! It rocks!:)

Gekko

had a ryanair landing that ended with a thud coming into bournemouth.

Dodgy landing into Gatwick last February during gales. The plane was being blown about like a leaf so I was very nervous. I'm a bit of a nervous flier.

Apparently one old heap of a plane that used to be used by Ryanair on the Bournemouth route is now in Peru or somewhere. The London Independent's travel writer tracked it somehow.

Ballerina

i dont like flying but i definitely prefer the long flights because they always use (what seem like) better planes and you dont feel the turbulence as much because theyre so big aswell.

my friend was flying to hawaii before though and the crew kindly announced that it was the last flight that the airplane would take as it is so old...WHY would they tell the passangers this!!!hahaha i would have a panic attack!

Steyr

Ballerina wrote: »

my friend was flying to hawaii before though and the crew kindly announced that it was the last flight that the airplane would take as it is so old...WHY would they tell the passangers this!!!hahaha i would have a panic attack!

Prob just reached the end of her service life with that particular Airline or the end of her Structural life span.

Naos

Not that I held it in question before, but those videos definitly justify a pilots salary.

I've been pretty lucky, "scariest" thing being turbulance.

Einstein

wasn't so much dodgy, but was landing in Biarraitz yeaar or two ago, and was very foggy...i was sitting by the window and knew we were onour descent cos my ears were a poppin'...but couldn't see ground...just cloud.

Next of all we hit the ground...everyone screamed cos they all thought we were still in the clouds!!
Couldn't see a dam thing- thickest fog ever!!!

mental07

- bo - wrote: »

Well this is just fantastic, Im a nervous flyer and am flying from Dublin tomorrow, nice...

And this time tomorrow I'll be somewhere in the vicinity of a check-in desk, too....!

I remember watching a documentary about the Concorde disaster at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris once. That pops into my head each time I'm taking off somewhere :eek:

MOH

zuutroy wrote: »

Check out the old Kai Tak airport in Hong Kong for crazy landings. There's like a 45 degree turn about 20 seconds before touchdown..Here's a guy that had to do it with engine trouble....

I remember flying into Kai Tak years ago - looking out the windows as you descend between office building, onto a runway sticking into the sea which you're convinced the plane is going to run off the end of. As they did every couple of years.

There was something in the paper over the weekend about a Ryanair plane having to turn back after its tail hit the runway on takeoff.

Thirdfox

Taking off from Brussels South a bird flew into the engine (well that's what they told us anyway) - made an emergency landing (with the fire engines chasing us down the runway). Had to wait 9 hours for the next flight! :mad: