Hi All,
I was a passenger on board the BA0943 Dusseldorf - LHR yesterday. As we came in to land, at about 100 ft, the pilot suddenly aborted the landing, and headed straight up again. We cut straight across the route of other ac taking off, causing another aircraft to roll through almost 90 degrees to avoid us. I'd estimate it's distance as no more than 500m from us. The incident was witnessed by a number of people omn the ground, waiting at the T1 drop off area. Turned out our aircraft (A320) had lost hydraulics, and the landing gear hadn't locked.
Plane headed out over the English Channel to use up fuel. The pilot appeared to have no rudder control, since all manouvers were made through rolling, and the pilot informed us that he had no brakes either. After preparing us for an emergancy landing, the plane managed to land back at LHR.
Was suprised not to have read anything in the media - so was anybody onboard the craft which had to manouver so violently to avoid us? What would have happened if we couldn't have locked the landing gear?
