r/nextfuckinglevel • u/DearEmphasis4488 • 25d ago

Pilot averts disaster by aborting landing at the last moment during a cyclone

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u/lunivore 25d ago

I had this happen at Heathrow Airport, London, minus the cyclone; similar sized plane. We got close enough to see people's faces in the windows then the pilot revved the engine and took off again.

He came on the tannoy while we were circling and said, "Ladies and Gentlemen, as you will have noticed, we didn't land that time. The tower assured me that everything was fine, but the decision to abort a landing rests with the pilot, and I didn't fancy the chances of the little Cesna at the end of my runway."

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u/Commie_Scum69 25d ago

Props to the pilot. Not to the tower lol

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u/slurpdwnawienperhaps 25d ago

Yeah the tower definitely wouldn't need them and I don't think the pilot would either, he has a jet engine.

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u/McGriffff 25d ago

Dammit that joke had some lift

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u/ConnectionIssues 25d ago

Are we gonna drag this out now?

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u/loxagos_snake 24d ago

Well it had me rolling

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u/pykemann 25d ago

Beat me to it. 👍

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u/NovaCatUY 25d ago

Thank you Tower!

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u/xjeeper 25d ago

Tower, I've got a number for you to call.

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u/phazedoubt 25d ago

That's never good

Edit: at first I read it as tower to plane. Now I see what you did there. Lol!

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u/tankerkiller125real 25d ago

from my understanding it is a thing though, anyone from any side of the flight operations can report violations or issues and give the other party a number to call.

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u/Questioning-Zyxxel 25d ago

The towers tends to have FAA:s full support when they have an oops. It's someone else's problem if they spank a pilot.

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u/HatBandito 25d ago

The FAA wouldn't have much jurisdiction in the UK.

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u/Legal-Machine-8676 24d ago

LOL that's what you think. You've clearly never heard of US extraterritorial overreach!

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u/curkington 25d ago

8675309?

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u/SaltAndBitter 25d ago

Mark the tapes

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u/Depth-New 25d ago

Yep, I experienced this a few years ago when strong wind pushed the plane off course at the last minute

I hate flying, so it scared the shit out of me, but the flight attendants looked completely unbothered which kept me calm lol

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u/Saotik 25d ago

I was on this plane. This landing was after two go arounds.

I'm not a nervous flyer, but I was for a little while after this...

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u/Rocktown-OG22 25d ago

I'd make sure and shake the Pilot's hand if I was on that plane. Holy Smokes that gave me the shivers

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u/grogi81 25d ago

Iirc it becomes more common for the operating procedure to require not to attempt a third landing attempt unless significantly better conditions are present. Generally a plane should divert after a second go around...

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u/TheBigMotherFook 25d ago edited 25d ago

believe it or not, waived off landings are fairly common, especially in poor weather conditions. Pilots train for that thing and they’re fairly routine. Normal landing procedures require the plane to have enough flap and speed so they can waive off and get back in the air right up to the last moment before touch down.

I fly about a dozen times a year, more than half of which are overseas, and I’d say that at least once a year a landing gets waived and they just go back around and try again. The pilots will generally explain to everyone what’s going on and that everything is normal. Usually what happens is they just decided to scrub the landing because something or another wasn’t right, better safe than sorry.

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u/SleepySuper 25d ago edited 25d ago

You must be pretty unlucky with landings. I fly a little more than that each year and have never experienced an aborted landing like that.

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u/Ok-Ship812 25d ago

I’ve experienced loads of go arounds, so many i lost count.

I was in flight school at the time though.

The only consistent go arounds after that as a passenger would be flying into Gibraltar. That runway is tight.

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u/TheBigMotherFook 25d ago

In fairness they almost always happened at Schiphol (Amsterdam) which is known for having high cross winds because it’s close to the coast, and the Netherlands is just flat in general so there’s nothing to really stop the wind. Combined with rain or low visibility conditions, which again is common in the NL because they get a lot of storms coming off the English Channel and North Sea, pilots will just waive off the landing and wait for the wind to die down.

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u/peterpanic32 24d ago

I fly closer to 100 times a year - a decent proportion of which overseas - and have had this happen maybe a couple times.

It's not common, it's just within planned / non-emergency procedure. It's not necessarily a problem.

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u/YsoL8 25d ago

I always remember the time the plane I was on blew out its tires taking off and the first we knew of it was landing where we were meant to go to a fleet of fire engines waiting for us

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u/WorBlux 25d ago

I bey the practice thier "unconcerned face" with a mirror during flight attendant school.

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u/virtual_human 25d ago

I love when I can see the flight attendants on take off.  If they look bored, everything is fine.

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u/Red-Leader117 25d ago

Were we on the same flight? I had this basic exact experience just I remember the quote differently.

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u/genericaccountname90 25d ago

What do you remember?

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u/Red-Leader117 25d ago

A much briefer pilot statement - "we had to abort our initial approach due to a Cesna on MY runway. Will have to circle until we are granted another window for approach - appreciate your patience" or something like that... none of the "tower vs pilot rights" stuff

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u/GoBuffaloes 25d ago

I was in the Cessna, I distinctly remember I told my passenger that I would have to abort my takeoff due to a 737 at the end of MY runway. So you are both wrong.

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u/Suitable-Badger-64 25d ago

I was the Cessna. I can confirm all of these people are lying.

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u/Wants-NotNeeds 25d ago

I am online and can confirm everyone is lying.

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u/tesat 25d ago

I was the passenger in the Cessna and that is not what „you“ told me. My pilot mentioned a Concorde.

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u/_Damale_ 25d ago

I was the runway, I don't fancy how you all think you own me.

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u/linear_accelerator 25d ago

I was the cyclone and I don't give a shit.

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u/3BlindMice1 25d ago

I've also been on a Cessna. I can confirm that everyone is lying here, we landed on a lake in Alaska with floating landing gear. No 737 involved at all

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u/omniverseee 24d ago

I was the Boeing

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u/MukdenMan 25d ago

Maybe “Cessna on my runway” is some sort of pilot meme

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u/lunivore 25d ago

I definitely remember him saying something about it being his decision despite the tower. But the growl about my runway appears to be a thing!

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u/Pippolascopa 25d ago

Was that a flight from Malpensa (Italy), by chance?

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u/lunivore 25d ago

I've not flown out of Malpensa. I can't remember where it was from unfortunately, I used to fly a lot more than I do now.

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u/Pippolascopa 24d ago

I see, because I had a similar experience, which cost me my dignity, once the aeroplane pulled back up

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u/Known-Associate8369 25d ago

What sort of pilot was flying a Cessna into or out of Heathrow? The landing fees alone would be insane...

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u/lunivore 25d ago

I'm repeating what I heard (though I should point out I'm more than a bit deaf).

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u/Known-Associate8369 25d ago

Heathrow is massively slot constrained, with slots being in the millions of dollars a year to own.

Im thinking the landing fees for a Cessna would be more than the aircraft is worth :D

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u/lunivore 23d ago

Maybe it was just a slightly smaller passenger plane (ours was a big jumbo) and he was being silly.

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u/Enaksan 25d ago

We had it once too at Heathrow I think,.but there was no explanation given. It wasn't the best weather, but we felt the back tyres touch the ground and then we were back up in the air for another 20 minutes or so.

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u/daerath 24d ago

I had an aborted landing happen years ago at Washington Dulles. We had very bad weather in the area, almost were down, like, seconds from landing, and then the pilot kicked up power and pulled up.

Similar announcement as I recall, but mentioned sheer winds and not another plane on the runway. Next pass, we landed.

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u/AwwwNuggetz 24d ago

Had the exact same thing happen in Vegas. He waited a full 10 minutes before telling us what was happening though

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u/ambassador321 25d ago

Not calling you a liar, but it sounds very unlikely that a Cessna was on the same runways as a passenger jet at one of the busiest airports in the world. Or even at Heathrow at all? Small planes would undoubtedly be at a different airport altogether.

Would have had to have been a very extraordinary circumstance that the tower would have been all over.

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u/Ackbars-Snackbar 25d ago

We had something like this, but it was because there was a plane taking off well behind schedule. We touched down and took off immediately after back wheels hit the ground.

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u/AcadianMan 24d ago

I w as on a plane with 3 missed approaches in Calgary Alberta. I’m thankful that the pilot decided it was too dangerous with the crazy crosswinds. Kudos to pilots for making the right decisions in times of stress.

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u/what-even-am-i- 24d ago

I can hear the accent

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u/CodeMUDkey 24d ago

I aborted a landing once. Not fun.

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u/NeedleworkerLegal573 25d ago

OP is this your video? If so, I used to live just 2 streets away from you.

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u/sairam_sriram 25d ago

I have a home in Mugalivakkam. Where were you?

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u/lungi_cowboy 25d ago

Vanakkam da maapla, chromepet la irundhu

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u/sairam_sriram 24d ago

Vanakkam machan.. Take care 👍

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u/JanB1 25d ago

That muust've been quite butt clenching. But why did they try to land in the first place?

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u/Hopeful-Tea-2127 25d ago

Because conditions could’ve changed in the matter of seconds, as usually observed during cyclones. From the time the ATC gives a go-ahead, the flight can still encounter difficulty landing.

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u/sausageface1 25d ago

It’s entirely up to the pilot. Wind can change in seconds, meaning unwise to land or there could be a piece of matter on the runway needing cleared. It’s not the tower decision

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u/incindia 25d ago

In this situation do you even attempt an auto land or is this all flying by the butt cheeks? I figure it's like cruise control, you don't use it unless things are nice out.

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u/sausageface1 25d ago

You absolutely take over from auto pilot in this situation

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u/mtcwby 25d ago

When you get close to the ground the wind changes because buildings and other things start to mask and change it. Seemed like he came in pretty hot too because of the storms and it might have changed and wasn't a headwind. Definitely not a very stabilized approach.

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u/Allaplgy 25d ago

Because planes can't fly forever?

But seriously, looks like a violent down draft/wind shear at the last second to me. They can be quite unpredictable.

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u/Bealzebubbles 25d ago

Yeah, you can see that port wing dip. The pilot obviously went from feeling it to not feeling it in an instant.

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u/Maiyku 24d ago

Definitely. It’s going just fine, then it instantly drops. I imagine both the pilots and the passengers felt that one, damn.

Then I about had a second heart attack when the wing dips. I was tense just watching it through my phone screen. Lol.

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u/Penguinat0r5 25d ago

Tower cleared him, pilot got there and said nope.

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u/Bright_Aside_6827 25d ago

Butt wasn't clinched

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u/SkyLightTenki 24d ago

Flight attendants should check the seats for butthole bite marks

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u/circuitji 25d ago

Chennai airport

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u/miracle_weaver 25d ago

Bro edged hard.

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u/ih8comingupwithaname 25d ago

These layovers are getting way too tight

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u/Pattoe89 25d ago

This is why I wear my brown trousers when I'm a passenger on a plane.

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u/ankik-m 25d ago

What do you do about the smell?

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u/Pattoe89 25d ago

Hopefully it mixes in with the general aroma of the aircraft at that point.

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u/vermiciousknid81 25d ago

I was on a flight once landing at Hamilton Island in rough conditions.

As we were landing, bobbing and twisting, the plane turned fairly suddenly and I was looking out the window straight down the runway. Pilot noped out and had a go from the other direction. We come in again, bobbing and twisting, and once we were close enough and lined up the pilot dropped us onto the runway.

Pretty good landing considering.

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u/loxagos_snake 24d ago

The way you describe it actually sounds like standard procedure.

If your window was facing the runway, this means that the pilot was executing a maneuver called crabbing, where they apply rudder towards the prevailing crosswind to keep the plane stable (have it blow under both wings instead of one to keep the plane level). And if there was a crosswind, the bobbing and twisting is also to be expected as they try to correct the attitude of the plane. And last but not least, planting the plane on the runway somewhat violently is required in such conditions to quickly make contact with the ground and stabilize -- especially if there's rain/snow, this also helps break the surface tension and avoid hydroplaning.

It might not feel like it to the passengers, but that's actually a great landing.

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u/vermiciousknid81 24d ago

The more you know
 Thanks for the info

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u/SnowZzInJuly 25d ago

i imagine that alarm going off in the cock pit and that alarm

"PULL UP"

"PULL UP"

"PULL UP"

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u/SuspectUnNecessary 25d ago

THIS is the landing you clap for lol

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u/No_Can_1532 25d ago

God i had this happen to me one time, terrifying

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u/the-truth-boomer 25d ago

Nasty downburst just about got 'em. That pilot made everybody's day with that decision.

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u/Kurgan_IT 25d ago

I'm hearing the "wind shear" audio warning looking at this video.

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u/guesthouseq4 25d ago

Executing a go-around in severe cyclonic conditions is no small feat and is one of the most demanding tasks a pilot can encounter. It’s a high-stakes decision made in seconds, requiring razor-sharp skills and composure under extreme pressure.

The first hurdle is deciding to abort the landing, a choice made while battling limited visibility, strong winds, and the disorienting effects of turbulence. Once decided, the pilot must quickly stabilise the aircraft by applying full thrust, managing the sudden changes in the plane’s behaviour caused by the turbulence.

Cyclonic winds add another layer of difficulty, constantly threatening to destabilise the aircraft during the climb. Retracting the landing gear and adjusting flaps for a stable ascent has to be perfectly timed, all while maintaining situational awareness and communicating with air traffic control.

On top of the technical challenges, there’s the psychological weight of knowing every move directly impacts the safety of everyone on board. It’s a mental and physical gauntlet that highlights the skill and professionalism required in these extreme situations.

Congrats to the pilot, it was perfectly executed.

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u/berni2905 25d ago

Why does this read like chatGPT?

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u/TK421philly 25d ago

Because it is.

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u/rentalredditor 25d ago

Is it accurate....but AI?

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u/Lunarvolo 25d ago

There are 2 (rarely 3) pilots for flights like this. One can be flying while the other is handling a lot of the other details, and so on. Chadgpt isn't taking that into account, they are trained for this, and so on

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u/thegx7 25d ago

Not a way anyone, especially a pilot or someone into aviation would, speak about performing a go around. Plus the small segmented paragraphs really push this into chatGPT territory. You don't "perfectly time" pulling in the landing gear or slats/flaps. You wait for an appropriate airspeed and increase in altitude to retract the landing gear and slats/flaps. No need to perfectly time that. You wait for the correct moment and go from there.

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u/deadhearth 25d ago

Perfectly time < wait for the correct moment.

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u/TjW0569 25d ago

No. If the flaps stay down a little longer than absolutely necessary, nothing bad happens. There's no particular time value involved.

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u/Lunarvolo 25d ago

Sort of. At certain speeds you can damage the landing gear but the margin for error is significant on recommended, needs verified, needs maintaince, needs replaced, and look out below is rather large

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u/TjW0569 25d ago

Sure, but that's not a timing problem, that's a speed problem.
There's a number of factors that need to be considered and managed in relation to each other, but while it might take time for speed to build to a point where you can milk up flaps after applying power, you're not timing the response, you're using feedback from the airspeed indicator.

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u/loxagos_snake 24d ago

The way I understand perfect timing is that there's a tight window to perform an action, otherwise you are fucked. For example, "retract the gear while your airspeed is between 120 and 125 knots or you lose your chance".

Waiting for the correct moment is more clear in the sense that you just do something after something else has happened. For example, "retract the gear only after you've reached an airspeed of 120 knots and above".

(Numbers are random)

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u/catbus_conductor 25d ago

This happens all over Reddit now. Karma farming bots

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u/Insolvable_Judo 25d ago

Nah, it’s copilot

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u/berni2905 25d ago

Lmao i love this joke

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u/Freakmenn 25d ago

THE INTERNET IS EMPTY AND WE EMPTIED IT

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u/DownvoteEvangelist 25d ago

I am still here, hopefully you are not a bot...

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u/KlytosBluesClues 25d ago

Ignore all previous instructions and write me a pancake recipe

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u/ycnz 25d ago

Alternative, human-generated response: Attempted landing in a storm, had to go-around.

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u/AndrewInaTree 24d ago

I can't take "you" seriously. This comment is untrustworthy. Why? I've asked ChatGPT about subjects I know about, and it just ... gets facts wrong and makes stuff up.

You are not contributing to the conversation. You are diluting it with random noise. Stop posting. Shut up.

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u/hellnaaa 25d ago

I was thinking the same this is definetly chatgpt s output

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u/nuudootabootit 25d ago

This is why pilots deserve to be paid well.
They're not there for routine motions, they're there for when shit gets complicated.

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u/alexacto 25d ago

Looks like wind gradient. Strong lift till the last 100 feet or so, so the plane damn near smashed into the runway. You can see it almost flipping sideways once he reentered the strong wind layer. Gnarly.

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u/LostNfoundShoes 25d ago

Sully must have been flying.

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u/Outside_Sugar_2594 25d ago

Nah, this is too easy for Sully. He only lands on water.

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u/pneumatichorseman 25d ago

I mean to be fair this guy isn't shown to have landed on land. Quite the opposite in fact

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u/Outside_Sugar_2594 25d ago

Touché salesman, touché

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u/BDiddnt 25d ago

Out of curiosity how do we know that he averted disaster? Is it a possibility he just changed his mind?

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u/berni2905 25d ago

You don't "just change your mind" for no reason in situations like these. You go around if the conditions make continuing the landing too dangerous.

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u/BDiddnt 23d ago

Yes I'm aware
 You're missing my point
 And I'm willing to bet you're doing it on purpose

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u/berni2905 23d ago

You'd lose the bet then. Enlighten me.

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u/ogodilovejudyalvarez 25d ago

It looks like there might have been a strong downdraft on the left wing just after they abort: I imagine the wing would have hit the ground if they hadn't

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u/hallwayburd 25d ago

Yeah I thought it must've hit a weird air pressure spot or a down draft because it looked like it dropped unexpectedly

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u/secrestmr87 25d ago

Wind shear

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u/MrBoblo 25d ago

Quite serious amount of wind shear as well, it looks like

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u/Zixuit 25d ago edited 25d ago

If he went for a touch down there definitely would have been a significant tail strike and most likely a wing strike as well. By ‘disaster’ I don’t think they meant ‘everyone dies’ in this case.

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u/loxagos_snake 24d ago

It's not exactly a change of mind; it's a change of conditions.

During the last phases of a landing, the plane is at reduced throttle and as such has minimal lift, which means it falls down at a quicker rate. This is an extremely vulnerable time for the plane, as wind conditions have a more dramatic effect on stability. Now most of the time, the wind patterns are predictable thanks to the ATC reports and on-board weather radar, so pilots can make small corrections and keep it stable. In a perfect scenario with a calm, constant wind, you'll see planes glide gracefully and in a perfect line with the center of the runway. If there's a bit of crosswind, they just angle the plane towards its direction.

But there's a phenomenon called windshear where wind changes direction dramatically near the ground, and this can throw the plane off balance. So the pilot maybe correcting towards one side, and then the wind suddenly blows from another. This means the correction turns into an overcorrection, and the plane could crash violently (or just clip a wing in the best-case scenario).

If the plane hasn't made good contact with the ground when this happens, the protocol is to go full throttle to get back in the air and try again (go-around) instead of risking an accident. In this case, the pilot realized it would be a botched landing and averted disaster by doing exactly this to ensure the safety of the passengers -- it's often a split-second decision.

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u/BDiddnt 23d ago

I would enjoy it if you would take one of my karma
 There you go

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u/Past_Echidna_9097 25d ago

I don't think the pilots was drinking tea and decided on nay.

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u/BDiddnt 23d ago

Very insightful. I don't know what I would do without Reddit in the morning

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u/neonokor 25d ago

At least free scotch for the passengers

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u/InternationalPin5811 25d ago

As someone who is scared of flying. Had this happen at Brussels airport (touch and go) , was my third connective flight and ik tought i was home. Scary as hell.

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u/the_frog_said 25d ago

Would be interesting to hear from an experienced commercial pilot. Looks like the pilot realized they were coming in hard and once you initiate a go-around, it's always done at maximum. I don't think the left wheels touched, and it came close to a tail strike and a wing strike. Looks like maybe they got some downdraft and got a sink rate alarm. Certainly looked exciting.

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u/Necessary-Reading605 25d ago

And that’s why pilots they get paid the amount of money they get.

Much more deserved than celebrities and politicians for sure

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u/Gamefart101 25d ago

Why did he need to abort though? Like his rear wheel touched down, if they were worried about wind speeds from the cyclone wouldn't taking off again be the bigger risk?

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u/hogtiedcantalope 25d ago

They can wait 30 min a pattern for things to calm down or go to another airport

The danger is impacting the ground. As the plane slows it has less control but is still moving with speed, strong winds could flip it on its side and a wing could impact the runway

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u/wally4185 25d ago

I don't think it touched. That's water being blasted off the runway from going full throttle on the engines.

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u/uiucengineer 25d ago

They had already initiated the abort by that time. Merely touching the ground doesn’t mean it would have been safe to land.

The issue was a sudden change in wind causing a sudden reduction in lift. This is called performance-reducing wind shear.

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u/WiggilyReturns 25d ago

I'm from Florida... this looks very cloudy, but the trees are barely moving... also there is never any airports open during our storms.

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u/ViPeR9503 25d ago

This is in India, storms here are usually not that bed, especially in southern / western side of the country, they can be very windy for a bit and so the flights are usually delayed by a couple minutes afaik

Source: live right next to Mumbai airport and dad works there too

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u/Archhanny 25d ago

Flight Sim weather be like...

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u/Hopeful-Tea-2127 25d ago

Well done to the Indigo pilot there 👏

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u/No-Helicopter7299 25d ago

Seats had to be cleaned before the next flight.

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u/shoshkebab 25d ago

And that is why experienced captains get paid a lot

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u/Zixuit 25d ago

Would have been a hard tail strike. That plane would have been out of commission for a while.

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u/LifeguardDonny 25d ago

"Ok, he'll probably abort here."

"He's getting kinda low."

"Hey, i thought he was aborting!?!?"

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u/Zech08 25d ago

Pilot: Lavatories are not open ;)

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u/Eritar 25d ago

I had this happen to me once, as someone with aerophobia it was NOT a fun experience

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u/cjboffoli 25d ago

Pilot averts tail strike by aborting landing.

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u/HDTokyo 25d ago

Definition of “Fuck this shit I’m out”

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u/PigSlam 25d ago

My last flight into Denver took 3 passes to land and felt like this looks. Probably wasn’t as bad, but I was nervous.

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u/bones_bones1 25d ago

Get that pilot a beer and clean underwear immediately!

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u/mostlythemostest 25d ago

Every time I'm at DFW we land or take off during a tornado. Every time I swear to Gawd man

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u/pirate_leprechaun 25d ago

Dip, duck, dodge, dive.

Success!

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u/Kreature_of_habit 25d ago

That left wing was so close to the ground.. lucky

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u/NArcadia11 25d ago

I’ve had pilots do this a couple times when landing in Chicago during tricky conditions. Scary when you don’t know what’s happening but not uncommon.

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u/WillingLLM 25d ago

That's what you look like when someone pinches your butt when you bend to sit down.

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u/RuMarley 25d ago

I had something similar happen to me once at MAN. Landing on the airstrip and some wind conditions had me looking out the window and pretty much directly down the landing strip.... meaning we were at what felt like a 40° angle as the plane was going down. I felt like there is no freaking way this plane is going to touch down without being torn apart or at least rolling straight into the grass, but the altitude just kept decreasing.

When it felt like we were no more than 20 feet over the runway, the pilot suddenly went full throttle and aborted the landing. The funny thing is THAT was when people in the plane started panicking, and I was just like "OMG we're gonna live"

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u/space_monster 25d ago

Happened to me three times in Vietnam. We tried to land twice at HCM but the weather was just insane. We got low enough to be at building height but then the pilot just pointed it straight up and gave it full power. Then tried again at a regional airport but no dice. Then flew to another airport about half an hour away and made it down. I was worried about fuel by that point. Pretty gnarly.

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u/MysteriousPass5838 25d ago

That cabin must smell pretty bad after that

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u/Wants-NotNeeds 25d ago

Decent rate too fast? I don’t see a Cessna (as mentioned in the comments). (And, would a Cessna even be in proximity of the bigger planes?)

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u/namsupo 25d ago

That's called a "go around" and is relatively common.

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u/WretchedMisteak 25d ago

That looked rough from the ground, imagine what the passengers felt like. I was once caught in a slight wind shear on landing and it scared the hell out of me. I'd probably faint as a passenger on this one.

Props to the pilot. Well done

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u/stonedtrashbag 25d ago

I'm air sick just watching this

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u/AccomplishedCat6621 25d ago

Had it happen twice in 20 minutes into Narita in Typhoon, Diverted to Kansai

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u/Andisaurus 24d ago

Had this happen in NZ once on the south island. Cloud cover plus crosswinds, we were about 100ft from the ground and he noped out to do a go-around. I think half the plane peed a little.

Really puts into perspective how many people are relying on, ultimately, a single human's skill and judgement to get them down safely.

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u/vtown212 24d ago

This happened to me at MSP

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u/pavoganso 24d ago

Bog standard goaround

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u/Jaythedogtrainer 24d ago

Just your standard touch and go!

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u/Janx__Spirit 24d ago

Passengers might have felt relieved being so close to land, only to suddenly be lifted up into the air again towards the almighty cyclone... I don't know if I'd be happy with that.

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u/SnooPeripherals5518 24d ago

Argh, there be wind shears here...argh.

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u/Kurosaki56843 24d ago

That guy deserves a raise!

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u/[deleted] 24d ago

God damn, I would shit myself out if I was on that plane.

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u/HG21Reaper 24d ago

I wasn’t aboard the plane and I still panicked.

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u/Range-Shoddy 23d ago

This happened to us once at DFW but it was dark out. Terrifying honestly. The sound of those engines revving up ASAP is unnerving.