englishal
5th Jul 2001, 23:35
In the last 6 months I've been to Oz 4 times, and landed at Perth twice. Both times to Perth it has been onboard a Quantas 767-268 from Singapore, and both times I have had my life flash before my eyes.
1) Left cross wind, Pilot hits hard, plane veers to left and right wing dips 'alarmingly'. Jolt is so violent as to break my mates seat. Takes a few seconds for the aircraft to straighten up and feel 'under control' again.
2) Coming in to land, 400 feet or so (from the in-flight moving map thing) pilot executes missed approach. Comes back round for a try on another runway (opposite direction), lots of manouvering, surprised to see that at about 150 feet on final we're still doing around 300 km/hr. We hit the runway hard and the plane bounces, such a violent jolt the TV projector thing becomes unattached from the cabin ceiling.
Do Quantas use the SIN - PER run as a training route or something, I'm starting to get a bit concerned !
1) Left cross wind, Pilot hits hard, plane veers to left and right wing dips 'alarmingly'. Jolt is so violent as to break my mates seat. Takes a few seconds for the aircraft to straighten up and feel 'under control' again.
2) Coming in to land, 400 feet or so (from the in-flight moving map thing) pilot executes missed approach. Comes back round for a try on another runway (opposite direction), lots of manouvering, surprised to see that at about 150 feet on final we're still doing around 300 km/hr. We hit the runway hard and the plane bounces, such a violent jolt the TV projector thing becomes unattached from the cabin ceiling.
Do Quantas use the SIN - PER run as a training route or something, I'm starting to get a bit concerned !