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Old 26th Dec 2011, 14:06
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escortmk2
 
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Over the years I too have had the hankering for the go around experience. My wish was granted a couple of years back during a landing into Malta. The approach had been very bumpy and it took an age before we could see the ground. Just as we got over the runway and I was expecting touchdown the left wing dipped and immediately the power came on and we climbed out. It all went very smoothly and it was great to experience the surge from the engines.

We sat there for a few minutes wondering what had happened when a voice came over the pa system and uttered one word which sounded like "gosh". Because we had an all female cabin crew I reckoned it came from the flight deck and I began thinking that if it scared them what must some of the passengers feel like. A couple of seconds later the senior cc member took a call from the flight deck and shortly after that the captain advised us that we had picked up a tailwind just as we were about to land and, because the runway was wet, he decided to go around. I think I would have preferred not to have know that for the second approach and instead find out once we were on the ground.
Anyway, on the way out of the plane I noticed that that the senior cc members name tag said Goosh. The captain had obviously selected the wrong button when trying to communicate with her and managed to scare a few people in the process.
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