In 40 years of flying, I have had five aborted landings, two very hard landings, and two aborted take-offs. I can say without reservation that as I walked off each one of those incidents that we were lucky to be there. Pilots in your country, and thank God mine, are trained to be the very very best and my thoughts are that they ought to be rewarded for hauling a lot of souls skywards and away from certain death.

As a Lufthansa captain said at Dusseldorf after a very heavy landing in a 727

"Every landing is a good landing"


Paul