MyTravel Manchester Airport - Tue 10th May What happened???

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~~ Ray ~~ - 16 May 2005 18:20 GMT

I was told on Tuesday a MyTravel was going to land on one the runways, but
at the last minute put full power on and climbed then did a hard bank.

Does anyone know what the problem was? I've a funny feeling they had landed
on or was going to land on the wrong runway.

Any info would be great.

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RAK - 17 May 2005 09:55 GMT

>I was told on Tuesday a MyTravel was going to land on one the runways, but
> at the last minute put full power on and climbed then did a hard bank.
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> Any info would be great.

I have had that experience at Heathrow last year. The pilot announced that
the plane in front had not cleared the runway so we had to go round again.
Noisy and a bit dramatic but not dangerous, just a waste of 10 minutes or
so.
With planes landing every 90 seconds or so they have to clear the runways
very quickly, and I guess sometimes one is slow finding the right taxiway.
Landing in the wrong direction sounds most unlikely, air traffic control
should easily have spotted it much earlier. Don't know about the wrong
runway idea, I dont know if traffic control can spot it on the radar if the
plane is heading for a parallel runway but I assume the runway lights would
be off or set wrongly for landing so the pilot should have seen it easily.

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Ralph Holz - 27 May 2005 23:30 GMT

Hi,

> I have had that experience at Heathrow last year. The pilot announced that

[Go-around experiences]

Reminds me...

I've experienced an aborted landing once when we were coming into Birmingham, on
a RegionalJet. Seemed to me that we could almost have touched the runway with
our hands, it seemed so close...

The pilot did a go-around, then came on on the intercom and told us some safety
warning in the cockpit had apparently come to life in the last second and they
had decided to abort the landing. Drily, she added "Don't worry, it might happen
again". Well, it didn't and everything went smoothly.

My fellow passengers, British to the core, did not move so much as a muscle and
continued reading in their newspapers, apparently unperturbed. Me, always a bit
nervous on flights, could not share their peace of mind. ;-)

When my friends picked me up from the terminal, they explained that Birmingham
sometimes has really strong winds and that just the week before a plane had
taken damage due to a wind shear or something...

Ralph

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