What A Landing !!!

[jid]

Location Manchester International Airport (EGCC)
08-01-2005
Winding guesting to 50 knots.
Airline Thomas Cook ~ G-FCLJ ~ 757-2Y0/ER

I would love to hear the comments of the flight crew as they made this approach. Not mention the passengers! I have never seen so many go-arounds in one morning. Ten minutes before this landing an Emirates 777 diverted to Heathrow after his third attempt at landing was aborted.



Congrats to the flight crew...

Jid.

[babypurin]

Love the animated picture.

[MaDbOy]

woohhaa, looks like an Six-flags ride, i like the part of the picture where it is all up again,

[Dazbo5]

Thanks for sharing that with us, I'd love to have been on board! Looks like the crew were battling with the elements but they did a great job considering how many go arounds there were. It reminds me of a heavy landing when I was on board an Airtours (now MY Travel) Boeing 757-200 in Crete in 1999. The winds were gusty and we made a hard landing on the right hand gear. Everthing was perfect until a few feet above the runway, a gust banked the aircraft to the right as we touched down, with quite a thud. Great job my the crew but there were some worried faces!

Darren

[philip]

08-01-2005
Airline Thomas Cook ~ G-FCLJ ~ 757-2Y0/ER

should be TCX497K (!?), I got her departing INN around 10:40am (local time):

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kewl! !

[jid]

should be TCX497K (!?), I got her departing INN around 10:40am (local time):

[photoid=405075]

kewl! !

Touch down at MAN was 11.29z. I did not catch the flight as the wind was that bad I could hardly hear the radio!!

Great shot BTW Philip

[Foxtrot]

Re:

Aaiiii, reminds me of the "Windy Wellington" videos I've seen on airsidetv.com. Awesome stuff, though not for the pax lol.

Thanks for posting that!

Foxtrot

[yyz-yvr]

Wow! Thats crazy. I wonder too what ppl on board have to say!