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Old Aug 26, 2011 | 12:29 pm
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Sheikh Yerbooty
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Pardon me, but I'll have to raise the BS flag here, and I'll explain why.

All airlines have what are called SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) and FOMs (Flight Operations Manual). I've lived by quite a few, and helped write parts of a few more. What's in those books is the law, and being the disciplined folks that we are, airline pilots follow them as near to the letter as humanly possible.

When the manuals comes to the point of landing, specifically when and when not to abort one, there are a couple of very clear rules. One of them is that you never, ever, abort a landing AFTER speed brake deployment and / or selecting reverse thrust - unless the situation is such that you are certain to have an accident if you stay, but there's a chance you may not if you abort. Those situations are extremely rare, so rare in fact that I don't know of any airline that teaches aborted landings after spoilers/brakes/reversers.

Aborting a landing after speed brake deployment (which, if they have been armed, happens automatically when sensors register weight on wheels and thrust levers in idle) is akin to rejecting a take-off after V1 - you're in test pilot territory with a high probability of things going awfully wrong.

I'm not saying it didn't happen to the OP, but it is a one-in-a-million occurrence, and he's quite lucky to have walked away from it. The subsequent posters, however, who claim they've experienced the same, on several occasions even, well ... trust you understand why I'm taking that with a large dollop of salt. What might have happened is a very late go-around, which may result in the wheels briefly making contact with the runway before going back up, but that's as far as my imagination will stretch.
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