Originally Posted by
Maisk Rotum
Heroes or Zeros??
Why only two possibilities? How about a third: lucky.
I think Shot Nancy might be correct: They landed in a lull.
I once flew into HKG about four hours after a Typhoon had passed and it was still very windy and turbulent. Nobody was getting in - everyone was going around due to Windshear. About 20nm out, we hit some some very short, but very sharp, turbulence that physically tripped a couple of BTB's (they reset OK). And yet when we had our go, it was as smooth as a baby's bum down finals, in the flare and on the landing roll-out. The aircraft immediately behind us went around due Windshear. Were we heroes or zeros? No, we were very lucky.