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Flying may a thrilling experience or a frightening one. Did you ever experience hard situations on a plane?, How were they?.
Despite the hard landings and trubulences I usually have to experience in SCQ, landings abortions....I point out two.
-Spanair flying from Madrid in MD83 a couple of months. 50 knots winds, night and the plane moving a lot. We were almost touching the trees at threshold and it collapsed (windsheer), shouts, and sudden acceleration and going up. It hasn´t much time so it touched the tarmac really violently, the lights were off, the racks oppened and it was quite hard.
-Taking off from STN in B737 to SCQ. Sudden despresurization, the masks went off and we had to land again.
What about you?

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RE: emergencies

My most horrifyin experience was in an Indian Airlines A320, when it entered a C-Cloud formation and had a free fall. The free fall was for around 10,000 ft. We were being served lunch at that time and everythin went strait up to the roof including the air-hostess and a few more people. This was the most horrifying experience yet.

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RE: emergencies

My first flight from Antwerp to Londen in a VLM (now banckrupt) fokker 50. The plane was so old that i thought it could crash every second. But last week when i flew from Capetown to Joburg in a SAA 747 the pilot more or less was a cowboy. He descended way too fast, but i like it. This makes some extra fun during long flights. But the airlines i flew with more or less had a good reputation. Next time i'll fly with North-Korean airways or Virgin :-)

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RE: emergencies

Sorry its not about emergencies i appologise,but geforce are you shaw vlm went banckrupt because they come over to guernsey(where i live) and jersey every satuday from, muchenglabach,rotterdam,berlin,london city and antwerp using fokker 50's and i read they were the largest operater at lcy.Sorry if i'm wrong.

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Yeah really are they still operational? Cool, than maybe o come back to jersey. VLM is nice to fly with because it's very local and you don't have to wait hours to get checked in.

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Geforce

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Vlm have a website at www.vlm-airlines.com.Its nice to see them using there fokker 50's,you don't see many at my local airport any more.Once again i appoligise for not posting anything about emergincies.
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RE: emergencies

Hey KabirT
Whats it like droping 10.000 feet? How long did it last? Whats a C-cloud formation? Drops like that scare me, I think my sanity would be forever jeopardized!!!!I have problems riding a long drop roller-coaster!!
Did the captain say what was going on, and does the plane just have to wait to come out of it or is there a way of stoping it?
Imagine being that steward stuck to the roof with everyone looking at you, hardly dignified.