BB: I have never experienced an aborted take-off, and I don't think I want to.

The nearest I have come is an aborted landing coming into Birmingham about 18 months ago.

After the inital 'suprise' the captain came on and said "Sorry about that. As you can probably tell we decided we would have another go at that landing. Unfortunatly there was another aircraft was taking rather longer than we had been advised to clear the runway."

The Captain was typical BA. If both engines were on fire he would have said something like "we seem to have a slight technical difficulty".

When we landed he came out of his cupboard and appologised to everyone as they left, which I thought was nice.
MF