I Would Not Have Been Impressed..

[Slagathore]

If I were on this plane!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw2yU1tZsSg

Dodgy pilot?

[Racefan_uk]

Good to see the massive amounts of emergency response units attending so quickly too!

[tegwin]

The pilot is a total and utter IDIOT! The golden rule is... if you think you might run out of runway, pull in power and go try again.... any moron can figure that out!

[edmellor]

The pilot clearly just wanted to reserve his spot on the beach before the germans got there

[TheEnd]

2/3rds down the runway and still not on the ground.

still, it was only 30 seconds before the fire engine was on the runway after it, they only cancelled the panic when they saw the people were out and no fires.

[DAVEVO9]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_yAUnprANw&fea...

"I hope I have enough film left to film the crash" brilliant..

[Flanders.]

tegwin said:

The pilot is a total and utter IDIOT! The golden rule is... if you think you might run out of runway, pull in power and go try again.... any moron can figure that out!

How do you knw that there was no mechanical failure?

[TheEnd]

It would have to be some unusual failure for to descent fine to 4 feet off the tarmac and then just glide for ever.

[kartmaster4213]

DAVEVO9 said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_yAUnprANw&fea...

"I hope I have enough film left to film the crash" brilliant..

those crazy aussies, turns out they're not quite as crazy as russian cargo plane pilots though!

[Roop]

Saving some mechanical or medical issue stopping the aircraft from going around, the throttles should have been firewalled at the 22-24s mark for a go-around. Maybe after all there was a mechanical or medical issue that mean they had one shot and just came in too hot...

Great commens from the camera operator

[eharding]

I understand from comments on another site that the runway is 650m long, which would focus the mind of the average twin driver even without a bloody great hill in the way of the final approach.

From that we can estimate the twin actually touched down with 200m or so of runway left. Whoops-a-daisy.

Presumably this Caravan driver *didn't* crash...



...but he was a lot lower over the ridge, and I'd bet a lot slower as well.

As an aside, anyone care to guess who are driving this:

http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources/Cirrus%20SR22...

[ariel]

eharding said:

As an aside, anyone care to guess who are driving this:

http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources/Cirrus%20SR22...

suralan wasn't it?

[IforB]

That is grade one muppetnosity I'm afraid and yep, Ed's link is Alan Sugar.

If the aircraft isn't going where you want it, you throw the approach away and try again.

This chap just earned a nice big FAIL tattoo on his forehead.