WTF - Clapping when the plane lands.

[uuf361]

I don't get the clapping thing either - makes me cringe when I hear it - happens more on flights with people who I suspect travel very infrequently.

I've been in aborted landings and even in a forced emergency landing on foam (landing gear only partially down) and nobody clapped then either....

[dram]

Saw it recently on my Niece's facebook - a video was being taken of the landing then the clapping and cheering started !!??

Mainly a bunch of kids / teens attempting to be all grown up , and being 'cool' , all going on holiday together , with a couple of drinks inside them , getting all excited ..

Cringe material for those that travel regularly....

[fido]

HTP99 said:

Well yesterday evening we flew in to Sardinia on a Ryanair flight; they do do the "da da....." music when landed and also a very few minority clapped upon landing however it didn't last long.

Proles.

[aggraa]

back in the eighties ,my grandad went missing in the guyanese jungle....during our search for his plane,we would stop at a diamond mine to take one of our plane doors off,tie a rope around my waist...i then held an IR camera and we would take off ,do a grid search until we ran low on fuel.....this went on for days....on the friday as we where coming into land at the diamond mine i noticed 2 queues of men....as i pointed this to our servant...he started clapping!a big grin came on his face.... `dem gettin der dollar der and spend it over der`
what they spending it on?
a woman!
a woman,,,you mean women!
no massser...the big boss flies her in 1 week a month!

[John D.]

You what?

[NRS]

Prize to the person who works out where that was meant to be posted,

However to be honest from what I understand it's a bit like the place I am now if you want a prostitute. Northern Norway, so not the end of the world. But apparently if you want a prostitute you have to order her when she comes on the 3 hour boat trip here,

[Martin_M]

Only time I've heard folk clapping was when we landed in bad weather.

On another note, my mate's brother just got promoted to captain with Easy Jet - 100% pay rise to £107k!

[ukkid35]

aggraa said:

as we where coming into land ... he started clapping

Perfectly appropriate anecdote, despite complaints from others.