Originally Posted by flyblue
From: Flight International
Air France says the A340-300 (F-GLZO) was “just about to land” at Douala in “very bad weather conditions” when the captain decided to go around, but the main wheels touched down before the aircraft climbed away, prompting the captain to seek a technical inspection. The aircraft landed safely on its second attempt.
Big true lie ! The new A340 Captain lost sufficient visual references at 100 feet because of heavy rain, but continued his approach till landing partly besides the runway due to his confusion between center line and runway right border lights, while his copilot was announcing "runway to the left". The plane has been rolling for 500 to 800 meters before he could get again in the air after he decided to go around because of the seven seconds needed to get G/A Thrust from Idle Thrust he had when touching down main landing gears. And the plane lost one gear door in this serious incident.....