Your worst ever landing experiance?

my worse landing ever

i was flying with excel airways on a 737-300 from london gatwick to minorca near spain, we tryed to start the engine on pushback but something went wrong and we were pulled back in, the next thing the captin came on the tannoy and said “right we will give it another go” no very reasurring! we came in to land at minorca and the wings were going from side to side and when we got close to the runway he was still doing it and the wing came litturally 2or3 feet from clipping the runway, but the best thing is we got the same aircraft and the same pilot on the way back! wasn’t good at all! 🙁

rhino

I’ve had a few bumpy landings and a few go-arounds but nothing too bad.

However, I did once see an ATP land at IOM and the nose gear broke! My heart raced, I thought it was a major event, but there were only a few bruises I think.

Landing at Stornoway in an ATP about 8 years ago we were somewhat surprised to see the airport’s fire crews rushing out towards us as we were almost on the ground.

Thinking the worst was about to happen, one or two passengers got a little panicked and others asked the bewildered fkight crew what was wrong ?

Once on the ground and parked up we discovered that the fire crews were giving a demonstration to a party of local schoolchilidren of how they’d handle an emergency. It would have been nice if they’d let the flight crew know about it mind you.

I had an interesting landing when I flew into Rome Campino last August. I knew we were approaching too fast so sould tell we were in for a rough touchdown.

Soon as we hit the runway the aircraft bounced up quite high. On this a great deal of the other passengers screamed, including my good lady, even after a warning from me that it would be a hard landing.

A couple less pronounced bounces later we were heading for the gate. I was amazed at the reactions of the other passengers, I can understand it but didn’t expect quite so many panicked screams.

Apart from that, all other landings have been very good, apart from when I took control of a Cessna 152 a few Chrimbos ago, but thats another tale 😮

landing at corfu a few years ago in an AMM752; the approach felt way too fast even for Corfu so we touched down, kangarooed abit and I’m sure there was a sudden release of manual braking to say the least! lol

overhead bins opened then but the cabin crew were amused so it gave everyone else a laugh from what i remember!?

cheers,

LGKR

Flying back to UK aboard a ‘Trooper’ from Cyprus a few years ago.
The take off was…well it was abit like ‘look at me, I’ve got three chuffing great engines and we’re gonna wheelie this thing if its the last thing we do’. I think the pilot that day had watched one too many car chase movies the night before.

We pulled onto the runway and almost before he was straight, the throttles hit the stops and we where mushed back in the seats (Half empty the plane this trip !). It was as if someone’goosed’ the old girl and we fairly leapt off the tarmac. D*mn, it good !

The flight was as bumpy as the chair I’m sitting in at the moment, no turbulence or anything till we started to let down through the UK clag into Brize.

It must have resembled one of those days when you come home and find your kids trying to get Concorde down on the Isle of Wight in MS Flight SIm version whatever…you know how it goes…the joystick is actually stirring a particularly thin porridge mixture cos its trying to be everywhere at once and the loud levers are iether fully open or fully closed !.

I dont think he barrel rolled but wouldnt like to swear to that fact.

We werent shot down…I dont think…but when he’d finally got it stopped and started to taxi back to the ramp, the right hand main undercarriage squeaked and ‘graunched’ like an overladen wheelbarrow being pushed on a rocky building site.

It’s funny but the captain wasnt there at the top of the stairs to say ‘bye’. Personaly, I think he was an ex-Naval carrier pilot and wasnt used to the runway being so damned stationary !

Mine was in 2001, on the return trip back from Cyprus. 7th June, flying with Britannia on a 757.

It was a woman pilot, which didn’t bother me in the slightest. Until we got back too LGW. I really thought that she was gonna make that plane overrun. She seemed to be coming in at quite a high speed, faster than any flight I had been on previous to this. But not only that, she seemed to take a long time getting the thing on the ground.

Eventually we touched down, right gear first, then the other two, racing along the runway, again I though very fast?

I swear the woman did a “handbrake turn” at the end of the runway. She took the whole of it to come to a stop.

For this sort of size aircraft, they usually take half to 3/4 of the runway to slow down.

2001…CDG-JER on a BA Dash 8. On descent over the Cherbourg Peninsula we had to fly through some very dark and dense cloud. A lot of turbulence, hail stones against the windows etc, scary stuff! Once below the clouds you could see the sea was extremely rough so I knew that was a good indication that the landing would be bad! The pilot told us that he expected the landing to be bumpy so to sit tight. Coming over the east of the island the wind was catching us and we were being thrown all over the place until we eventually landed which involved a lot of manoeuvring around until we finally hit the runway quite hard. Worst thing was I had to catch the connecting flight back to GCI on a Trislander…less than impressive. Again it was very bumpy and again we got bashed and bumped around by the wind because those Trislanders are very vulnerable to the wind.
After we arrived I found out the islands had been hit by some terrible storms over the weekend when it was lovely and sunny in Paris!

Back in the mid 80s a few of us Traffic staff from STN hitched a lift for the day on a BA 747-200 which should have been local circuits. However due to wx probs at STN we ended up doing the circuits at PIK! Atrocious weather, air sickness and many awful landings followed, the final one being so hard as to bring down ceiling panels as well as overhead locker doors. On return to STN some 6 hours later the cabin resembled the set of a disaster movie! However I learned nothing from this and repeated the same experience on a BA L1011 some weeks later in SNN – Happy days.

Last February (2002) with British Airways. I mentioned in my flight review that we hit the runway at quite an angle.

The little A319’s rear right wheel whacked down first followed by the others with a few lockers flying open at the rear of the aircraft.

A very nerve-racking experience!

All by my own doing… 😀

Went out with the instructor’s blessing on one of my first solo flights in a Bölkow Monsun. When I came back to the airfield the wind had increased to about 25 knots with gusts up to 30 knots. Although straight down the runway it was incredibly turbulent and I somehow neglected to maintain the correct approach speed, touched down way too fast, bounced twice before coming to a stop at the end of the runway. The airfield employees found it hilarious and wanted me to pay three landing fees… 😡

Just remember a couple of landing in Britanny.

The first one was with huge head wind (normal for landing) aboard an AF A300 something like 100Mph , everyone was throwing up or just about to do it.

The second one was something similar aboard an ATR42 landing on a small airpot (Lannion) with short runway.
The cross wind that huge that the angle was about 45 deg and it was easy to watch the runway through the windows!!!

well i havent really had a BAD landing but i’ve had some interesting approaches.

For those of you who know Manchester on an approach inbound i a Boeing 747-100 last year we were inbound on a MESI1A STAR. shortly after passing WAL VOR at around 9000ft we entered a thick layer of cumulonimbus clouds and we’re advised that we would be taking up the hold at FL60 at MIRSI. At this point we heard a call from another a/c in front of us (i think it was a BY752) that said he was experiaenceing a fair bit of turbulence in the area – well not to worry eh!

After we left the hold we were vectored a severe patch of Green and Red on the weather radar which turned out to be the Thunderstorm which was in the vacinity of the field. The lightning was spectacular with a flash very close off the right hand wind, but not a strike before the downpour of rain and hail. At this point Jan the Captain put out an announcement stating words to the effect of “Ahhhh theirs nothing to worry about!!!” to the 400+ in th back! a very turbulence apporach folled onto 24R at EGCC wit reports of wind shear on finals – was just somwething differerant and Turbulent – a bit more exciting that a normal smooth desent!

well i have exerienced a few but worst was my flight on AF B735 from ZRH-CDG. When landing he reall brought her down on fast speed and with a huge bump…..some people actualy shouted out as the bump was sever…..the landing gear did suffer a little damage.

nothing to drastic…

Couple of years ago, a British Midland 737-400 coming into GLA from LHR, that wobbled a bit coming in in the crosswind on finals. As I recall, the Forth Road bridge over by Edinburgh was shut at the time, due to 80mph winds, so it can’t have been much slower than that on the West Coast…

Although, the worse landing was probably a really bumpy landing on a BA flight at LGW, coming from GLA, again on a 737-400. This was the early morning flight (leaving GLA at 6:15am) so quite a few of the pax had gone to sleep after the full english breakfast… they all woke with a start on landing, and I felt quite queasy for a day or two… not sure that wasn’t due to whether or not those Sausages had been quite done, though… 😉