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Old 5th February 2008 | 18:46
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main_dog
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From: Krug departure, Merlot transition
Well there was that time...

Ok since we're letting all our skeletons out of the closet...

Last month I crunched a 747-200 into 30L Singapore so hard that Jeppesen had to lower the threshold elevation but a couple feet. Good they build the old girls tough.

And back in 2004 I ploughed a 320 into 20 in Palermo... the bounce was so high the captain and I had time to look at each other when we momentarily got airborne again... his mouth a perfect O... the ashen pax de-boarding and the poor engineer who had to inspect the scarebus all night long were not amused...

Feel better now!

PS Best comment after a hard landing I ever heard came from a Captain reminiscing one of his harder "arrivals": apparently, shortly after pummeling a DC-8 into a runway, his Flight Engineer exclaimed, "Stuff me, mate, I've seen better landings were everyone was killed!"

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