had two really scary incidents:
1)
PTY-SJO on a LR 732Adv… we took off from Panama City/Tocumen airport in some heavy rain. About 5 minutes after departure, the aircraft turned sharply and the captain advised us that we were returning to Tocumen due to technical problems…..so we all assumed the position, and waited to land….as we were landing, i took a little peek out the window, and lo and behold, they had all their fire trucks out and chasing…after landing, we had apparently had a problem with one engine…
about 3 hours later, we take off again, this time with our problems “gone”……arriving at SJO, we were in the middle of the same heavy storm which had caught us leaving PTY, and looking out the window (visibility was very poor) i saw the tops of the trees immediately below the engines, at which point full power was applied (i had never seen an airplane rattle like it did that day) and we started a steep climb….we tried landing 2 other times with more or less the same result, except for the 3rd time, when a crosswind caught the airplane, the result being that we almost smashed into the ground….since the pilot simply couldnt land, we diverted to Managua (MGA), where we stayed until the storm had passed the next day…
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