Rather a good crash landing

[Simpo Two]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9zXweJ4O3s&feature=re...

[WorAl]

i've had rougher landings than that with wheels down

[Adenauer]

Very cool

[SpydieNut]

lovely flying / crashing

[illmonkey]

Bloody hell great landing! Guys didn't seem to fazed coming off the plane either.

[TonyHetherington]

WorAl said:

i've had rougher landings than that with wheels down

[escargot]

Incredibly skilled flying from the pilot there.

[stigmundfreud]

if people enjoy crash/rough landings may I recommend the Manchester to NYC route flown by continental? I think every flight was an experience when I used to do that route!! PRobably hire ex NYC taxi drivers for pilots

[Simpo Two]

stigmundfreud said:

if people enjoy crash/rough landings may I recommend the Manchester to NYC route flown by continental?

Is that the one where the Captain is seeing the passengers off the plane and a little old lady says: 'Excuse me, did we land or were we shot down?'

[stigmundfreud]

Simpo Two said:

stigmundfreud said:

if people enjoy crash/rough landings may I recommend the Manchester to NYC route flown by continental?

Is that the one where the Captain is seeing the passengers off the plane and a little old lady says: 'Excuse me, did we land or were we shot down?'

Yes! My last flight on that route was about 12 years back, for reason. REmember the Continental DC-10 that had to abort take off from ringway due to fuel leaking from the rear engine during the take off? A week later I was flying a Continental DC-10 on the return route from NYC. Getting to Nova Scotia the rear engine developed the same fault, we were told it wasn't the same plane. Turn around for longest flight in my life, land and hten we were told we could not leave the plane they would fix it. 4 hours later they sent us on the death flight home.

I imagine it was similar for those in the Spanish crash last year where a fault was fixed rather than a new plane supplied. We were kept on board by security and not allowed to leave, the atmosphere was very charged and the flight back to the UK was terribly quiet.

The previous week on landing at NY we hit the tarmac so hard we bounced, luggage came out of overhead bins the works. Landed and found a nice puncture. I am sure they were flown by vietnam vets

[bull996]

It seems that landing at JFK are always hard. Do you think they are told to get down and out the way sharpish by traffic control?

[stigmundfreud]

bull996 said:

It seems that landing at JFK are always hard. Do you think they are told to get down and out the way sharpish by traffic control?

this was pre-911, back in the days when pilots could drink and get away with it

[Dave 500]

Cool award goes to the bloke slowly walking out with his bags

[maser_spyder]

Phew.


"Will you have nuts or a cigar, sir"


Great landing!

[The Moose]

Dave 500 said:

Cool award goes to the bloke slowly walking out with his bags

+1

(as he's the captain!!)

[911motorsport]

No spring chicken either! Pilots do seem to gain some incredible skills with age

[dan1981]

Returning to Liverpool on a horrible ryan air flight, we made a rather hard landing.

To be fair it was a horrible night - misty and raining.

The Steward..... over the tannoy

"As you can probabaly tell folks, we found the runway, and pretty soon you'll all be able to exit the plane, without the need for the emergency slides"

Queue much nervous laughter.

[griffdude]

bull996 said:

It seems that landing at JFK are always hard. Do you think they are told to get down and out the way sharpish by traffic control?

Yes, JFK's a fg nightmare. Lots of traffic, ATC shout at people & parallel runways plus the canarsie (interesting visual approach). Good fun tho', keeps you on your toes!