Author Topic: Airbus attempts to land on a 3360ft strip (Read 528 times)

Wilfrid · « **on:** September 10, 2003, 12:20:39 PM »

The story

TSB spokesman Bill Yearwood told the National Post, "The pilots descended low enough that, for all intents and purposes, they appeared to be lost, and that's a concern." Yearwood is convinced the airliner would never have completed the landing but the incident is being investigated.

Gadfly · « **Reply #1 on:** September 10, 2003, 01:15:11 PM »

Oh they would have completed the landing alright.......

CyranoAH · « **Reply #2 on:** September 10, 2003, 01:46:47 PM »

Show-offs...

Chairboy · « **Reply #3 on:** September 10, 2003, 02:00:07 PM »

I bet they could have made the landing. The real show would have been the take off...

Dingbat · « **Reply #4 on:** September 12, 2003, 11:25:41 AM »

Short-Field Take-off in an Airbus, LOL, yea riiiiight

Chairboy · « **Reply #5 on:** September 12, 2003, 11:34:11 AM »

Hey, if I can land and take off from a CV with an Me-262... anything's possible.

I can almost take off from a Nimitz class carrier in a 747*with low fuel, this field looks bigger then that.

* in X-plane

Fishu · « **Reply #6 on:** September 12, 2003, 12:27:05 PM »

Wot.... I am regularly landing on 2300-2700ft strips with B737 and the airbusses..

MarkVZ · « **Reply #7 on:** September 12, 2003, 01:23:56 PM »

One winter night few years ago a stretched DC8 landed at a local county airport in Michigan instead of the former air base 10 miles to the north it was supposed to land at. The pilot landed the stretched DC-8 on the 4800 * 75 county airport runway, got stopped at the end and discovered that he couldn't even turn the plane around. They towed it to the other end of the runway and waited for a windy day and miraculously got it back out of there. They said that is the ground hadn't been frozen, the DC-8 would have cracked the runway up. It was strange to see the DC-8 parked among Pipers at a small local airport for a week.

rpm · « **Reply #8 on:** September 12, 2003, 01:36:37 PM »

They were trying to qualify for Continental.

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On 11 May 1997 a Continental Airlines pilot misjudged the location of Corpus Christi International Airport Sunday and landed a Boeing 737 on a World War II-era auxiliary landing strip 4 1/2 miles away. It essentially was pilot error and he landed on the wrong runway. The jet, which took off from Houston with 59 people aboard, landed around 10:40 a.m. at Cabaniss Field. The runway at Cabaniss is about 3,000 feet shorter than the strip at Corpus Christi International. Passengers had to wait on the plane for almost three hours before buses arrived to take them to the right airport.

Staga · « **Reply #9 on:** September 12, 2003, 02:07:31 PM »

A319 is one of the smallest aircraft of the Airbus family and it, like Boeing 737, are capable to operate from Gibraltar's 1800m/5900ft long runway.

Loaded A319 needs about 1700m/5570ft for takeoff and 1300m/4260ft for landing so 3300ft sounds little short...
Numbers from Google, not sure how correct they are.