I’ve never had an aborted landing in a civil jet but did have to exercise that option when coming into land behind a Jabiru on a gravel runway a couple of years ago. I was also flying a Jabbie and followed the first plane at a reasonable distance, watched him land, coast a bit then drop to his right wing tip as his under-carriage collapsed. Time for power on and put out a PAN call for others in circuit that a plane was down. Actually it skidded just off the gravel and onto the grass but was still within the runway markers. Just to be sure,on my second attempt, I landed half way down the runway having received a wave from the pilot and pax from the downed craft. I guess the point I’m making is that it might look scary for on-lookers, from the cockpit it is ‘just one of those things’ we’re all trained to deal with.
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