Dodgy landings

jester77 · 03-03-2008 11:28AM #1

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... · 03-03-2008 11:37AM

now that looks scary

Miguel_Sanchez · 03-03-2008 11:41AM

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 · 03-03-2008 11:43AM

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 · 03-03-2008 11:53AM

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 · 03-03-2008 11:53AM

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 · 03-03-2008 11:54AM

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 · 03-03-2008 11:59AM

OMG, I wouldnt want to be on that .

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BKtje · 03-03-2008 12:49PM

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

dfx- · 03-03-2008 03:06PM

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 · 03-03-2008 03:11PM

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 · 03-03-2008 03:18PM

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 · 03-03-2008 03:22PM

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

sunnyjim · 03-03-2008 03:44PM

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 · 03-03-2008 04:56PM

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! · 03-03-2008 05:48PM

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 · 03-03-2008 06:29PM

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 · 03-03-2008 06:37PM

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 · 03-03-2008 06:45PM

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

bluto63 · 03-03-2008 06:49PM

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 · 03-03-2008 07:53PM

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 · 03-03-2008 08:15PM

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 - · 03-03-2008 08:15PM

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

GLaDOS · 03-03-2008 08:24PM

- 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 · 03-03-2008 08:26PM

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 · 03-03-2008 08:27PM

ScienceNerd wrote: »

What were you expecting with the thread title?

Housing market?

Red Alert · 03-03-2008 08:46PM

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

GLaDOS · 03-03-2008 08:47PM

Red Alert wrote: »

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

LOL!

Clytus · 03-03-2008 09:54PM

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 · 03-03-2008 10:01PM

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

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