C-17 cargo plane oops

[Vieste]

Please excuse the american crap!

http://travel.aol.co.uk/2012/07/23/video-huge-mili...

[onesickpuppy]

Oops!

[shirt]

stupid mistake but 3,500ft runway length is hardly a problem for the c-17. also a bit stupid of the local pilot to observe that the military don't practice that kind of thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQChoy6mogA

[b14]

You can see when it comes back off that there is at least 500 foot of runway left - no problem at all for an unloaded C-17.

[Eric Mc]

Pete Knight would be proud.

[Vieste]

b14 i think you have missed the point same as the pilot missing the airport.

[LotusOmega375D]

Probably related to the pilot who landed his Ryanair 737 at that small military airfield in Northern Ireland a few years ago!

[b14]

Vieste said:

b14 i think you have missed the point same as the pilot missing the airport.

Not sure I did really, the video seemed to indicate some element of trepidation that it would make the take off. My point was that there was no need to worry.

But please do educate me.

[DamienB]

It's sucking up water from the tarmac.

[anonymous-user]

LotusOmega375D said:

Probably related to the pilot who landed his Ryanair 737 at that small military airfield in Northern Ireland a few years ago!

Are you thinking of here...?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Langford_Lodge

I can remember visiting the engineering company and seeing pictures of this incident all over their reception area.

IIRC, they couldn't take off again as they had no safety equipment on hand at the time - as the runway was only used infrequently when Martin Baker used to fly in their testing sleds which ran along side the runway on a rail (one of the companies activities was assembling said seats, again IIRC)...

Or has there been more than one such incident?

ETA - there has http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/485796...

Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 24th July 14:09

[silverfoxcc]

trust the Yanks

707 landsat Northolt instead of Heathrow.... ever since then there are direction signs on the water towers ar Harrow NH (with arrow) and Southall LH and arrow although now redundant as 23L is not used
The B1 952/) that did a flypast at Blackbushe instead of over Farnborough a few years ago

So par for he course

[Eric Mc]

B-52

[Chuck328]

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[Chuck328]

PW said:

"The C-17 is designed to operate from runways as short as 3,500 ft (1,064 m)"

Quite true I'm sure. It also says to me "we are close to the limits here boys".

I've had plenty of take off's where V1 is called out and you think "jeezzz there's not a lot of tarmac left"

[George H]

had ham said:

LotusOmega375D said:

Probably related to the pilot who landed his Ryanair 737 at that small military airfield in Northern Ireland a few years ago!

Are you thinking of here...?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Langford_Lodge

I can remember visiting the engineering company and seeing pictures of this incident all over their reception area.

IIRC, they couldn't take off again as they had no safety equipment on hand at the time - as the runway was only used infrequently when Martin Baker used to fly in their testing sleds which ran along side the runway on a rail (one of the companies activities was assembling said seats, again IIRC)...

I know a few people who work there and I remember them saying there was an email sent out saying not to talk about the 'alleged' landing. I don't know if it actually landed but I'm fairly sure I was told it nearly did, then realised the mistake and took off again.

They do make the ejector seats too, but the runway isn't used for that - it's on rails parallel to it. The runway is used for when Martin Baker fly in I believe.

[nonuts]

The bit about the security convoy right at the end of the video sounded like the most interesting bit, however makes you wonder why he didn't abort the landing rather than stopping.

[Eric Mc]

George H said:

I know a few people who work there and I remember them saying there was an email sent out saying not to talk about the 'alleged' landing. I don't know if it actually landed but I'm fairly sure I was told it nearly did, then realised the mistake and took off again.

They do make the ejector seats too, but the runway isn't used for that - it's on rails parallel to it. The runway is used for when Martin Baker fly in I believe.

I thought the Ryanair incident involved a landing at the old RAF Ballykelly - which had been a Coastal Command Shackleton base.

[George H]

Eric Mc said:

I thought the Ryanair incident involved a landing at the old RAF Ballykelly - which had been a Coastal Command Shackleton base.

No idea, I know that there have been 2 occasions at Langford Lodge though. I'm going for a few beers with 2 people who work there so I'll ask them tonight

[Eric Mc]

I did a quick Google check on the Ryanair incident. The aircraft definitely landed at Ballykelly - which is an Army helicopter base these days.

The Airbus A320 was actually owned by a company called Eirjet who were operating a Ryanair flight. Eirjet went out of business a few months after the incident.

[JW911]

Eric Mc said:

I did a quick Google check on the Ryanair incident. The aircraft definitely landed at Ballykelly - which is an Army helicopter base these days.

The Airbus A320 was actually owned by a company called Eirjet who were operating a Ryanair flight. Eirjet went out of business a few months after the incident.

There was a great photoshop of the aircraft afterwards with the name changed to "Eeejet".