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Mar 6, 2007 | 12:40 pm

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Pat89339[/B];7348587]For me it has only been once so far, a very long time ago at NRT on a PanAm 747. Captain Bob announced he had overshot the runway and we were going around. The engines were screaming trying to gain altitude. I'll never forget that.

for me, it was twice-both at bos. the first was a 37 and just shot up like a bullet but the other was a tw l-1011 and like Pat89339, it screamed & moaned and groaned on the way back up (and also somethig i will never forget)

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