Honeymoon Ruined !!

[RooFlyer]

My first thought was: why on earth would you fly to Manchester for a honeymoon? Ah, they are returning from honeymoon.

Would have thought that a go-around was one last, um, ... Never mind.

 

[harvyk]

Yeah, if a simple go-around is enough to ruin an entire honeymoon, then something tells me it was simply the icing on the cake and they should perhaps re-evaluate their honeymoon.

I've been in go arounds (and I suspect a decent proportion of AFFers have been as well). They are hardly a scary thing, surprising for sure, but hardly something which made me want to start writing out a will, and certainly not something which needs to be given world wide attention.

 

[docjames]

I guess the exploding taxi and guy on fire we saw on our honeymoon (yes, really) doesn't rate compared to this couple's terrible experience.

After all, our honeymoon wasn't ruined.

 

[drron]

Yeah, if a simple go-around is enough to ruin an entire honeymoon, then something tells me it was simply the icing on the cake and they should perhaps re-evaluate their honeymoon.

I've been in go arounds (and I suspect a decent proportion of AFFers have been as well). They are hardly a scary thing, surprising for sure, but hardly something which made me want to start writing out a will, and certainly not something which needs to be given world wide attention.

Though 2 go arounds when landing in a typhoon at NRT are a little on the scary side they certainly didn't ruin our holiday.

 

[TomVexille]

I've taken several hundred commercial flights and the only time I've done a go-around is when I was PIC (C172).

So I guess what I'm saying is that while they are common place, it's not that common.

 

[amaroo]

In my 700 odd flights I've only experienced two. Both at MCY in atrocious conditions - I found the experience exhilarating!

 

[Captain Halliday]

They live in Manchester. There is a whole lot more to be terrified about in Manchester than a go-around. Soccer hooligans for starters...

 

[knasty]

My wife has sent me on a go-around a few times but she won't let me divert to another airport!

 

[Blinky]

I opened a thread about this in another forum I occupy (forums.randi.org, a skeptics forum) and got some fantastic stories of honeymoon disasters. So thanks guys.

 

[Blinky]

My wife has sent me on a go-around a few times but she won't let me divert to another airport!

Oh, very very good.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

My wife has sent me on a go-around a few times but she won't let me divert to another airport!

Nor hanger!

 

[Deleted member 29185]

I remember in the early '80s, Avalon was used for touch and go practice for the 747s, so it is a reasonably well practiced manoeuvre.

The funniest I was ever on was just after 9/11 when not so many people were flying. I grabbed a domestic leg (BNE-SYD) on an int. incoming flight. I got a seat next to a young lady travelling alone and on final approach, just metres from the tarmac, we were caught by a crosswind that spun us a bit and the pilot did a touch and go and went around. My lovely seat companion latched onto my arm so tightly I had fingernail punctures and she was shaking like a leaf until I explained what had happened (actually she was still shaking like a leaf after that). There never is a running commentary from the coughpit in situations like that.....I think they may just be busy doing other things, like flying the bloody plane. I agree, it gives you quite a start, but that's life........I still fly and that nice English lady had to get home somehow!

I can only remember one other, very similar coming into HTI and was hit by a bullet (wind bullet) coming into land. A bit of a shock, but thankfully no real dramas.

 

[elbarto]

This is like reading a trip advisor review where someone says their holiday is ruined because the curtains don't match the carpet.

 

[Pablo]

This is like reading a trip advisor review where someone says their holiday is ruined because the curtains don't match the carpet.

Have you had one of those holidays as well??? :shock:

 

[TomVexille]

There never is a running commentary from the coughpit in situations like that.....I think they may just be busy doing other things, like flying the bloody plane.

I'd think sterile coughpit rules would also be in play

 

[harvyk]

I'd think sterile coughpit rules would also be in play

They do give a brief explaination when they get a minute. IMHO if it's a choice between flying the plane or keeping the pax informed I'd really want them to be flying the plane, pax emotions be damned...

 

[GoldCanyon340]

I've had three go arounds in over six hundred flights and all were here in ADL. They were enough to put me off my pie floaters let me tell you.

Sunday is my 666th commercial flight so I'm expecting drama on the approach to SYD.

 

[TomVexille]

They do give a brief explaination when they get a minute. IMHO if it's a choice between flying the plane or keeping the pax informed I'd really want them to be flying the plane, pax emotions be damned...

Well in the US the FAA mandates no announcements below 10,000 feet. Which is when they would have a minute.

 

[harvyk]

Well in the US the FAA mandates no announcements below 10,000 feet. Which is when they would have a minute.

But AFAIK they only go up to around 4000, and I've def heard announcements made from the flight deck. But that was in NZ, not the US.

 

[anat0l]

Hmmmm... so if go-arounds are "common place" they will never fly again?

All I can say is, thank bl**dy God! Two less idiots in the sky to put up with.................

I mean, people who are not familiar with go-arounds may be understandably confused by them for the first time (and perhaps especially those who are terrified of flying, but from the article, it is somewhat clear that these two people have no fear of flying). I don't think that is hardly grounds to claim moral compensation, let alone that their vacation (which had pretty much already come to an end) had been ruined.

Pretty much all of the comments on the article are at least on the sensible side. I'm not sure that couple may live another normal day.