Originally Posted by
physioprof
Sounds pretty scary. Did you have any sense for how close to the go/no-go point the plane was?
Never experienced an aborted take-off, but once was on EWR-SNA flight very close to touching down to land when the pilot aborted landing and zoomed back up. Once we were back up and circling to land again, pilot came on PA and told us there was a small plane still at the far end of the runway and he didn't want to take any chances.
I've had both and the aborted landing is much scarier. On the takeoff, you're still on the ground and it's over quickly.
One time at ATL, we aborted at what felt like 30 feet above the runway in a RJ, after descending through pretty strong storms. Not only do you know something is wrong, but you know the ordeal is far from over at that point. Not to mention in this case we had to climb back up with lightning all around. I had never heard passengers go as completely silent as they did on that flight.