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Old 31st May 2008, 10:13
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Rod Eddington
 
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Two shocking videos of planes landing at this airport.
I'd say they are fairly shocking. Perhaps it is a visual illusion but no-one seems to cross the threshold at 50 feet, in fact one of the AA757s appears to touchdown prior to the threshold. Where I work that would definitely involve tea and biscuits with the management! Obviously you wouldn't want to land long but the runway isn't that short, at a guess you could stop a 320series twice using autobrake medium - and with manual braking & max reverse I imagine you'd need about a third of the runway.
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