Sky Airlines real close call

[Gabriel]

3WE, I think I've found the right words:

When he touched down, he was still turning to final.

[snydersnapshots]

Originally Posted by Gabriel

3WE, I think I've found the right words:

When he touched down, he was still turning to final.

PERFECT!!!

[TheKiecker]

Originally Posted by snydersnapshots

Maybe he was trying to dodge the proverbial "busload of nuns" on the runway. (Simulator instructors sometimes want you to go around from the flare. In the past I've had them say "there's a busload of nuns on the runway--go around!)

Were the busload of nuns drinking gin and tonics and leaving skid marks ?

[3WE]

Originally Posted by Gabriel

3WE, I think I've found the right words:

When he touched down, he was still turning to final.

I too have found the right words, "He screwed up"

[Kpeters]

Not even my worst FSX landing :S. I'm not a professional pilot and I was not in the cockpit but I can't possibly think of something that would make this guy do what he did.

And btw where the hell was the copilot in all of this!?

Interesting analysis here: (In spanish but sefl explanatory)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...FIsI2913g&NR=1

[3WE]

Originally Posted by Kpeters

...I can't possibly think of something that would make this guy do what he did...

I can possibly think of something that would make this guy do what he did.

It happens.

Probably a lot to student pilots have made similar maneuvers.

There are youtubes of other incidents with airliners...wing tip scrapes, crazy sideways touchdowns at Kai Tek, Airbus in Germany.

...and, let's even go so far as to think of a vehicle leaving it's lane on a highway.

Yeah, it's a bad mistake, humans do that sort of thing from time to time.

[Evan]

Originally Posted by Kpeters

I can't possibly think of something that would make this guy do what he did.

Lack of serious pilot screening and training requirements. Lack of mentorship. Blind task-orientation.

[3WE]

Originally Posted by Gabriel

3WE, I think I've found the right words:

When he touched down, he was still turning to final.

It's kind of tough to detect the turn from that angle, but yep, on review, he's more our less turning to final for good long while- right through his touchdown.

...That being said, is that a 'normal' approach for that airport?...where you 'must' make a significant turn and (when you do it right) have a short final where you are 'perfectly' aligned with the runway.

...or is he operating in a visual and light-plane mindset, downwind, base, final...except he blows it due to not seeing the runway, and/or, bad flying and leaving himself no space for final nor being aligned....