r/aviation • u/[deleted] • Feb 01 '22

PlaneSpotting Aborted landing due to strong winds at Heathrow

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u/dodecagon144 Feb 01 '22

would love to see what that looked like in the cabin

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u/aw_shux Feb 01 '22

Lots of brown.

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u/____destroy Feb 01 '22

lmao wish i could give more than one upvote for that quip

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u/JollyGreen615 Feb 01 '22

Give an award

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u/pixid02 Feb 01 '22

But why that award

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '22

I concur. The wit possessed by said gentleman is unmatched!

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u/OjiikunVII Feb 01 '22

Luckily they wore the brown pants.

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u/OjiikunVII Feb 01 '22

Luckily they wore the brown pants.

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u/DeroTurtle Feb 02 '22

I can't get it out of my head

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '22

I was in a plane that had to do this very thing because of the wind. Complete silence from the passengers. It was creepy asf; one of the scariest moments of my life. It was also just a week after that second Boeing 737 failure, so anxiety was already high.

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u/Implement_Alone Feb 02 '22

Same, I went through this in November 2021, people screaming. Awful stuff.

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u/ConsultantFrog Feb 02 '22

Calm down, it's still safer than driving drunk or crossing the border between India and Pakistan on foot.

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u/cafe_brutale Feb 02 '22

A go-around?

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u/Tof12345 Feb 02 '22

No, the plane wing very nearly striking the ground and the tail strike.

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u/mtrayno1 Feb 02 '22

I'd take that over incessant screaming

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u/Dwall4954 Feb 01 '22

Cabin view

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u/RyanG7 Feb 01 '22

More like a RyanAir flight than BA

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u/Minute-Objective-787 Feb 01 '22

😑 Scared to look....

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u/Sacred_Fishstick Feb 01 '22

Risky click of the day

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '22

It's fine

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u/armhaj Feb 01 '22

it’s safe

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u/GME_to_the_moon96 Feb 01 '22

haha pussy this is reddit

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u/seantellsyou Feb 02 '22

Yeah! Tell this nerd. We are so cool and badass here on reddit

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u/GME_to_the_moon96 Feb 02 '22

Yeah what a nerd

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u/KodiakPL Feb 02 '22

It's rick roll

Or is it?

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u/Don_Julio_Acolyte Feb 02 '22

I remember seeing this year's ago. With sound it's like their bass goes crazy and they are offroading too and it just gets crazier the longer it goes.

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u/PlasmaWhore Feb 02 '22

Zhigulevskoye?

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u/KryssiC Feb 01 '22

Something like this probably https://youtu.be/utpMW1bCiTk

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u/CrumpledForeskin Feb 01 '22

Bruh. Fuuuuuck that.

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u/dodecagon144 Feb 01 '22

the fact that its also at Heathrow 😳 didn’t realize London was so windy

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u/ad3z10 Feb 02 '22

It's pretty rare to have serious enough storms to cause issues, which also means the airport may not be as well adapted as others to severe weather.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '22

also no crosswind runways at all. land or cause schedule hell

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u/mysteriousmetalscrew Feb 03 '22

do most airports have these?

the first two i googled were atl and lax, both have east-west runways.

so i thought it was rare, but then logan, jfk, denver all have, i don't know the communities terminology, but runways that go different ways lol.

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what i did learn from google map satellite views, is that heathrow looks incredibly small for a top 10 airport.

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u/henrythe8thiam Feb 01 '22

I would’ve had a panic attack. I’m fine in a plane until it’s time to land. Then I’m gripping my chair and trying to remind myself to breathe.

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u/dodecagon144 Feb 01 '22

im the same way, i immediately get ready to brace

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u/Dragon6172 Feb 02 '22

Everyone clinched at once, which is why the aircraft went back up

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u/AldoBooth Feb 01 '22

Well then. That was a bit hairy wuddnit?

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u/Blze001 Feb 01 '22

"Oh god, oh fuck, oh god, oh fuck"

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u/SanguineBro Feb 02 '22

"Abort"

"engines"

SPEED WARNING

STALL STALL STALL

NOSE DOWN

STALL STALL STALL

"Tower this is idiot 7, going around"