09-30-2018, 07:17 PM
A few years ago, I was driving home and was near LAX on a road that had a clear view of the runways, when I got a phone call. So I pulled over to talk, and watched as a couple of planes landed on a very blustery day. The planes were having a real rough go of it, and one heavy started crabbing extra-badly as it neared touch down, and I yelled, "Pull up, pull up, pull up!!!", and you could see the jet wash increase. The plane's left wheels bounced, and then the plane lurched to the right, and stuff from the right side of the plane bounced as the plane finally pulled up while it was still crabbing.
When I got home and told stewardess wife, she downplayed the incident... until it made the news. In my description, I suggested that all passengers probably puked and/or soiled their pants. Stewardess still wasn't impressed, as she'd been on flights w/ lots of turbulence in the early days before vectoring around weather became routine, and there was lots of vomiting. The TV news showed the plane from a different angle than I saw, and clarified that it (thankfully) was a cargo plane, and that had it been a passenger plane, it wouldn't have been given clearance to land. When Mrs. Buzz saw the TV news, she relented and said that it wouldn't have been fun to have been working that flight.
Those smaller planes in the video brought the LAX incident roaring back. It just seems that whoever is in charge of letting planes take off and land, ought to have to go for a ride in some of the planes that they let land and take off.
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When I got home and told stewardess wife, she downplayed the incident... until it made the news. In my description, I suggested that all passengers probably puked and/or soiled their pants. Stewardess still wasn't impressed, as she'd been on flights w/ lots of turbulence in the early days before vectoring around weather became routine, and there was lots of vomiting. The TV news showed the plane from a different angle than I saw, and clarified that it (thankfully) was a cargo plane, and that had it been a passenger plane, it wouldn't have been given clearance to land. When Mrs. Buzz saw the TV news, she relented and said that it wouldn't have been fun to have been working that flight.
Those smaller planes in the video brought the LAX incident roaring back. It just seems that whoever is in charge of letting planes take off and land, ought to have to go for a ride in some of the planes that they let land and take off.
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