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Old 4th December 2005 | 18:47
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northwing
 
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I was a pax coming back from a holiday with the family courtesy of Britannia on the night of the Gatwick landing incident. We were overshot and landed off a second approach. Taxying (sp???) in the captain made some disparaging remarks about BA being on the grass, but by the time we reached the gate he had apparently got hold of some more reliable info and became more complimentary about the BA crew who had obviously averted a serious disaster by quickly veering off on to the grass. The incident itself was definitely not their fault. The incoming crew had been confused by the not brilliantly designed temporary lighting. It was a typical cock-up of an unfamiliar crew composition with all sorts of weird authority gradients. As I heard it they held a lot of earnest conversations during the approach about which runway they were supposed to be landing on, before finally agreeing unanimously on the wrong one. Then again, I wasn't there so I stand to be corrected.
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