A passenger on board a flight into Newquay Airport this afternoon has described passengers' "gasps and nervous laughter" after an aborted landing was followed by a 'spicy' touchdown.
Matt Fisher was on the flight from Manchester earlier today, which suffered a heavy landing on the second attempt. He said: "The plane was already late taking off from Manchester.
The pilot had to abort the first landing and then he came in for the second landing and hit the runway very hard. I was under the impression that one of the passengers was hurt during the landing, but I can’t be sure. When we were picking up our bags we saw that the next flight on the plane that we had come in on was delayed due to technical problems. Then the flight was cancelled entirely."

It is thought that the plane received some damage. He said the flight was delayed at Manchester due to an "admin" problem.
Th Matt added: "It was due to take off at 10.20am from Manchester, but instead it left at 11.55am. It got into Newquay at around 1.30pm. The pilot warned us that the landing would be a bit ‘spicy’ – he said on a curry level it would be a jalfrezi, but it was much spicier than that. When he aborted the first landing we knew we were in safe hands. There was no real fear until we hit the deck.
There were lots of gasps and nervous laughter. Taking off and landing was turbulent, but it was fine during the cruise because we were above it."

A spokesman for Newquay Airport said: "We can confirm that there has been a ground incident at Cornwall Airport Newquay today. The incident is currently being investigated."

A spokesman for Flybe said: "Flybe can confirm it is investigating a possible tail strike that occurred on landing in adverse weather conditions at Cornwall Newquay Airport earlier today. All 56 passengers disembarked safely as normal when the aircraft arrived on stand."

Reminds me of a Brymon flight from LHR via PLY to NQY when after a very bumpy ride from PLY to NQY we hit the deck really hard, bounced a couple of times and raced to the stand to the thrown off the back of the aircraft. As we were making our way back to the stand the pilot announced that we'd all be pleased to hear that NQY had a runway divot replacement machine, used often for the RAF blokes during training. The guy outside opened the rear door to let us off poked his head into the aircraft and said "I bet he drinks Carling Black Label!"

and ALC, twice a week!

as one who has expressed serious doubts about the viability of Newquay in the past I put my hand up and say the management have done a really good job

when you see the connections they've got up in such a short period you can see why places like Prestwick, Durham Teeside, Carlisle, Doncaster and even E Midlands are envious

Inverness has similarly got it's act together it seems

Not sure what happened to the Eurowings STR-NQY flight yesterday, FR24 showed it turned around and returned to departure point from just west of Paris.

​​​​​The flight was rescheduled for this morning, but yesterday's DUS was also cancelled.

Whatever would he have said if Newquay HAD been chosen. Arguably the most puke making press release I have read for ages!!!

Former VS 744 G-OWOW (now on the US-reg) is the launch platform:

I thought Gatwick was staying as an E195 for S19?

slightly puzzled is STN running or not thanks

NQY-STN
 

STN is operating 3 weekly for summer 18 down from daily summer17 and not currently scheduled for summer19


cs

thanks - so SEN LCY and STN have all fail and LGW is twice a day?