A 737 Second Officer (3,500hrs) and an Instructor in a Seneca doing circuits.
The ‘student’ manages to dink a prop on the the runway when carrying out his first landing
The story then continues
On the next approach, the aircraft touched down in a standing crop short of the runway threshold and proceeded through the crop for some distance before becoming airborne again; the instructor told the student to go around during the ground roll.
The instructor took control of the aircraft as it climbed away, and flew a circuit with the intention of landing. From this approach the aircraft again touched down in the crop short of the runway, before climbing away into a further circuit, from which it landed uneventfully.
Moggy
By: Bushell - 18th February 2012 at 17:46
It also has rippled skin on the port wing indicating twisted or bent spar. The aircraft is at Shipdham awaiting removal.
By: Arabella-Cox - 18th February 2012 at 09:59
😮 I hope they reviewed the instructor’s certificate.
By: Dunbar - 17th February 2012 at 20:40
Interesting that it was a Second Officer on a 737…do we still have those?
All very odd. Pity no CVR…
By: TonyT - 17th February 2012 at 12:46
It also has shock loaded the engine 3 times and he is lucky to still be with us, how stupid can people get.
By: EGTC - 17th February 2012 at 02:43
😮 Woah!
By: Moggy C - 16th February 2012 at 23:26
That might explain the prop dink on the first landing – but not the second of the two crops landings, that was the instructor
(Edit: At least I think it was, the report’s wording is ambiguous)
Moggy
By: Newforest - 16th February 2012 at 19:30
You know how it is changing from big iron to the smaller fry! I let an ex Laker Airways pilot land my Cheetah in Luxembourg and he thought the runway was 20 feet higher than it really was. 🙂
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February 16, 2012 at 5:51 pm