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Old Dec 3, 2015, 3:45 pm
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UTex09
 
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Texas
Programs: Former 1K turned UA Kettle
Posts: 413
Had one this past summer IAH-GCM on a 738 or 9. GCM has a 6,100 ft runway that terminates in the Atlantic Ocean. As we were in the final stage of the approach on a cloudy day, we suddenly went full bore and ascended at a fairly steep angle - much steeper than takeoff. It actually felt more like the few times I have been on a corp. jet that seemed to take an aggressive takeoff at a steep angle, I assume because they're so small. From my vantage we couldn't have been more than a few hundred feet in the air - felt like last second to pull up (though I'm sure we had much more altitude than I thought). Flew a big circle around the island and landed. Found out a storm had popped up over the runway literally as we were landing, and we would have had a hard time stopping before the ocean according to the Captain.
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