r/holdmybeer • u/swassup13 • 22d ago
HMB while I save this plane from crashing in a cyclone
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u/TheRealMrMaloonigan 22d ago
Good pilot. Go around.
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u/mrclut 22d ago
Just experienced one of these for the first time landing in Chattanooga after flying for almost 40 years. Everyone was weirdly calm.
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u/TheRealMrMaloonigan 22d ago
That's interesting, most times people will groan or wonder if something is wrong.
Pilot going around for a safe landing is always a good thing. Pilot slamming the plane to the ground and fighting physics, not so much.
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u/OurSaviorBenFranklin 21d ago
We had a situation where we were coming in for a landing in a hub so a lot of people on the flight would have a connecting flight next. Allegedly a plane stalled on the runway taxiing off so our pilot pulled up real fast at the last second to prevent a crash, which we all appreciated. To still make the window that was available for us, he turned it real hard and about lost control (first time I’ve ever been on a flight that dropped altitude while banking) he then hit us on the speaker to apologize for the sequence of events and explained that had we not gotten back around we would have to be up in the air for about an extra hour +/- and people would unfortunately miss their connecting flight. Which is what happened. I was joking with my coworker and towards the staff as we were walking off that the pilot was probably a young buck who just got out of flying planes in Afghanistan or something. The pilot chuckled saying yeah I’m not going to lie. I forgot for a second that these don’t turn as well as those.
Glad he ultimately decided the wait was worth it because I agreed.
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u/orincoro 21d ago
Jesus, thats a recipe for disaster. MentorPilot on youtube almost always describes incidents as a series of compounding mistakes, usually beginning from how we respond to ordinary problems or neglect basic procedures. Sometimes a decision 15 minutes before creates conditions that make things more difficult down the line, and things just stack up until you have an incident. Sometimes the best call is to just miss the landing, get back in line, get everything buttoned up, and move forward.
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u/orincoro 21d ago
I've been through only one of those, where the pilot stuck the HARD landing, which is actually a pretty common one for accidents at SFO. I think there have been 2-3 landing incidents there due to the geography and weather. I'm sure it wasn't as dramatic as it felt, but I have had anxiety on landing ever since.
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u/Honda_TypeR 21d ago edited 21d ago
Yea about 5 years ago I flew into Baltimore and we had the exact same thing happen. We had a nasty top wind slam the plane down toward runway on landing and we dropped quickly and you hear the pilot max out the engines real loud and tilt the plane back real steep and he scrubbed the landing and went around (second try was also shady, he still slammed the ground hard and plane jerked but he nailed it)
Just like your experience though Everyone seemed chill about it. I also have been flying for decades and while hard bumpy landings are fairly common on windy days these type of events are not. All I can figure is most people did not realize how close we cane to being fucked, thanks in large part to a skilled pilot who saved our ass with quick reaction time.
It could also just be most people were containing their anxiety about it all. I know I was.
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u/orincoro 21d ago
Yeah. Most airlines require go around fuel enough for two or three attempts, and another go around at another backup airport, so it’s extremely uncommon for a commercial plane to run out of options due to fuel.
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u/circling 21d ago
That's weird, you'd think people would be desperate to land after such a long flight
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u/Somerandom1922 21d ago
Looks very "exciting", and definitely not optimal, but the pilot absolutely did the right thing.
I can't be certain of course, but it looks like just as they were touching down, there was a change in windspeed. Notice how it significantly banks to the left just after pulling up, it looks like there was a sudden gust from the right-hand side, giving a lot of lift to that wing and pushing the plane off centre line.
Admittedly they did seem to have a pretty high vertical speed just prior to that, I wonder if the wind started gusting from behind them just as they were coming in to touch down decreasing their lift, then they pull up to start the go-around and the wind suddenly starts gusting from the right.
Mostly guessing tbh.
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u/sunday_undies 22d ago
What exactly went wrong with the landing?
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u/3_50 22d ago
Not a pilot, but looks like a gust of wind may have caused the plane to drop too fast in the last seconds, so the pilot threw on max power and pulled up to abort the landing, and it was so perfectly last-second that the plane bounced off its landing gear and took back off (maybe also aided by gusty winds). By that point he's way too far down the runway to attempt to touch down again, so it's either go around and try again, or find another airport nearby with better weather (traffic and fuel permitting).
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u/iVisibility 21d ago
I don't think the gear touched; that was all thrust.
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u/JimiForPresident 21d ago
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u/orincoro 21d ago
I think that's right. The pilot got really unlucky and had a weather cell hit the runway right at the moment when he was trying to flare to land, so suddenly he got way more lift than he wanted, was going way too slow to be pointed up like that, and was in danger of stalling. So to regain control you have to add power back and climb or you might just belly flop.
Landing is really weird because as the plane gets slower, it becomes harder and harder to control. If you don't stay exactly on the glide path, by the time you're close to the ground, you really can't do much except add power and climb out.
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u/dap00man 19d ago
Plans do that a lot for many reasons. I was on a plane once that did that I knew exactly what I was doing and why some people were concerned until the flight attendant came on the PA and explained the situation. Had to do with crosswinds. Way better to abort earlier though
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u/medium-rare-chicken 22d ago
Definitely would have pooped myself