Check out this crazy video of an Astra Airlines Boeing 737-800 landing at Thessaloniki Airport:
The runway is 7,900 feet long and the weather was nice, so I think it’s safe to say this was pilot error and they should have gone around. They were coming in way too fast and without enough flaps. And while I’m sure everyone was just happy to be alive, I can’t help but chuckle a bit at all the clapping.
Reminds me almost exactly of the Airphil Express runway overrun in Kalibo last year:
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the logo on the wing does not look like an Astra Airlines airplane at all. Where did you get your info from?
Simon, you wouldn't happen to be eightblack... You've got a way with words!
Bravo, Simon! Can't stand blowhards like Sean M.
Good God mama-Sean. I hope you didn't knock the Candelabra off your piano when dictated your comment. The thing on your head. I think it's a tiara, but I have no proof. Oh dear God, what did I just do there? Hum a ring at me. And may I point out that you needn't worry about Lucky doing it again since there's nothing after thrice. I assume the people in history who liked to say thrice didn't live long enough to come up with another. Oops, I did it again. I played with your heart. Got lost in the game. Hum another ring at me. Oh baby, baby. I do love your last paragraph though. It's very theatrical. While I suppose most would see you and the white silk gloves as Voltaire, I prefer to imagine you as Uncle Ben with white silk gloves in the scene where he looks up at Spiderman and says "With great audience comes great responsibility." But, for a surprise twist, you then sit up, completely unharmed by Spiderman's web of assumptions and start slapping the sticks out of him while you scream things like "How dare you" followed by "Royal Jordanian", "787" and "now this". And, for a grand finale, you pull one glove off, whip your hair back and give him one last long, sweeping slap while you let out a shrilly "Seriously dude, I expected better from you." Magnifico. But Lucky, seriously, really. Some of us, maybe a good number are as Sean pointed out, are less knowledgeable. Or, if we're being completely honest here, are just plain stupid. Your pen is to be used wisely. After all, your pen-is-powerful and if you just starting shooting from the hip a lot of us will have red eyes. From being mislead of course.
@ Stefan -- If there were hydraulics issues maybe the pilots shouldn't have landed halfway down the runway, no?
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