Hat tip to Martijn Moret for finding and posting this video of what appears to be a very dangerous landing of a B-737-300 (that was previously owned by US Airways) at the Tegucigalpa airport in Honduras. Clearly if you have already flown over 50% of the runway, you probably should consider doing a go-around again. However, and judging from the nearly 500 comments posted on the video’s YouTube page, landings at this particular airport are apparently tricky given the short runway and the crosswinds. Nevertheless, I would not have wanted to be the passengers nor the flight crew of this particular aircraft!
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I was stomping my feet on the floor just watching it head for the edge of that runway!
Thank you, so much, for showing Captain Eric “Winkle’ Brown making the first jet landing – ever – in December, 1945. That particular Sea Vampire is in the Fleet Air Arm Museum, of course.
I suppose that we shall have to pray for the F35, and hope to goodness that it doesn’t turn out like the RAF’s F-111K !!
Cheers
Ross
It’s quite depressing to think how far downhill the British aviation industry has come. We used to make lots of planes. Now we make wings for the Airbus and some engines and other assorted bits. I think the B-N Islander is the last aircraft to be wholly manufactured in the UK and even they outsource some of it overseas, I think, and they’re (possibly) foreign-owned. What’s sad about the F111K story is not the cancellation of that misbegotten plane but the prior cancellation of the TSR1, which could have been a world beater. Ahhh. Nostalgia.
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