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Old 03-17-2015, 02:07 PM
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Riverside
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Originally Posted by kfahmi
We were taxiing near the approach end of 8 at PHX yesterday afternoon as a Mesa -900 landed. From the excessively high pitch attitude and flare height, I could tell it wasn't going to be pretty. I mean, sure, you have to flare the -900 way more than a -200 or even a -700, but this thing looked like it was a piston seaplane trying to get on the step.

Sure enough, it gave up the ghost maybe 10 feet off the deck and dropped in. Darn thing hit so hard, the wings flexed dramatically, a few billowing clouds of tire smoke swirled around, and it bounced back into the air, dropped a wing, and then pancaked back onto the ground. Easily the worst 121 landing I've ever seen. And in calm winds, too.

Don't they teach you guys how to land?

(opens popcorn) *

*True story, though.
Easy for you to say when you're flying a Cessna.
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