I was on a flight back to Humberside once that aborted landing three times due to low visibility. Even the Stewardesses looked petrified. We just got lower and lower and then they gunned the engines and took us back up. After the third attempt they took us to Manchester and bused us back. Not for the faint hearted!
I've had two bad landings because of the wind, one going into Jersey and the other going into Chicago, no wonder they call Chicago the windy City, scared the frigging life out of me.
The original reason for calling it the windy city was because a rival city said its politicians were full of hot air after losing out to Chicago to hold the World’s Fair.
I was on a flight back to Heathrow from the Middle East with a Saudi pilot on a 747... it was worse than today... the pilot allowing for the wind put it out over the grass and let it drift in to the runway... it missed on the left side... the shudder on the plan as it hit terra ferma you'd have thought it was going to break up... screams a plenty...
My dad was in the RAF during the war, he used to say "any landing you can walk away from, is a good one"
The most dangerous part of flights is the take off and initial climb Pilots are trained for extreme crosswind landings Might be a hard landing
Same happened to me a few years back, in fact it’s the only time I’ve flown from Humberside. Could have been same flight.
I was once on a flight from Humberside to Schiphol on a twin engined jet. Not that long after take off one of the engines didn’t quite catch fire that you could see, but there was definitely smoke coming out of it. The pilot came over the tannoy and said he’d turned that engine off but we were fine to continue. Not long after that all the lights went off briefly and he came on again to say that some of the electronics had failed, but he was fine to fly manually and we could still continue. Maybe 2 or 3 minutes after that the plane almost literally ‘fell over’ - the side with the failed engine sort of dropped out of the sky and a couple of the overhead lockers sprang open with bags flying around. There were people screaming, but after maybe 30 seconds the plane got level again and the pilot came over the tannoy again to explain that we’d had to turn around because it was foggy in Amsterdam and he couldn’t land there without the electronic assistance. He apologised that the U turn had been a bit rocky as the result of only having the one engine. I wasn’t far from the toilet and I saw several people pass soon after with big damp patches on their trousers - they must have all spilled their drinks…
Worse one for me was landing at Leeds, it hit the ground so hard felt like they’d not dropped the wheels, almost put my spine through the top of my heeed !!!!!
Unbelievable! Supposed to be closed to high sided traffic! https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/new...kCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar
Spare a thought for the cowboy roofers HCC have employed to do roofs on bransholme, first questionable thing is when they turn up in a tranny pick up with no company name on it, this morning working on a roof no hard hat, no hi viz no harness and not seen such dodgy scaffolding since I was in the middle east where they used bamboo poles tied together with string.
