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Old 4th Mar 2008, 17:59
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MSAW_CFIT
 
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I have had the opportunity to be a passenger on a landing similar to this on a Continental Airlines flight into BHX.

After a wobbly approach on short finals to RWY33 the wingtip just avoided the tarmac as the MLG hit the deck pretty hard, the aircrew then decided to initiate a go-around and landed on RWY15. Wind conditions were gusty.

I was working in ops for a BHX airline at the time, this is by far the worst landing I've sat through.

I'd like to know if get there-itis was a factor. The go-around would have been a good choice before the MLG touched down.

I remember a CPH flight from BHX with Maersk that had to make a fuel emergency call in severe weather after trying a diversion to Billund.
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