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Old May 22, 2010 | 5:48 am
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lordkeir
 
Join Date: May 2010
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How close to crashing was it?

Hello everyone,
Yesterday I was on flight Vietnamese Airlines flight VN740 from Singapore to Ho Chi Minh City.
The flight was pretty turbulent especially as we were making our landing approach.
On landing the plane hit the ground pretty hard and immediately the pilot started to attempt take off again. The plane was really struggling to get back up into the air and we were flying very low for about 60 seconds. there were a lot of worried faces to say the least!

Eventually, we got back into the air and landed safely second time.

I've scoured the intenet for information on incidents like this but can't anything. So what i'd like to know is:
Does anybody know how common an incident like this is? Was it really as dangerous as it seemed at the time?

Thanks

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