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Old Mar 4, 2007, 8:03 pm
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Robt760
 
Join Date: Aug 2001
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I've had three aborted landings, but only one counts as a pull-up:


Summer of 1988, HP flight into San Diego on a 737. 1st attempt, we were about 200 feet above the runway, pulled up and went around to land. Was not really scarry, everyone just kind of rolled with it.

May 2006, AA flight DFW into SNA on a 737. We got down to about 1,500 ft and didn't land due to aircraft unable to retract flaps/configuration. We were diverted to LAX with full force emergency crew greeting. No big deal to me, I'm not sure how I'd feel about a "touch and go" into SNA, it's just such a short runway. Other pax were griping about it though.

Just last week AA flight SFO into HNL on a 763 (NGBC). We got down to about 1,000 ft and didn't land due to reports of debris on our runway. Funny thing was when we did land on another runway, there was a small emergency crew on our runway.
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