Originally Posted by
Rocket Bob
IOE on the 727, pulled the throttles to idle at 30 feet!! Heard the engineer audibly gasp, captain say "not yet!", then put a crater into the runway at DEN. I think the rollout was less than 500 feet. Never happened again, but in the 72 everything was a crapshoot... Passengers never said a word, at that place you got what you paid for I guess.
I remember a trip in the JS of a 727 into MCI where the Capt. went to flight idle on an extremely high downwind, and never touched the power again! Had an extremely high vertical speed right to the runway and the airplane hit so hard that it practically stopped on the touchdown zone. Scared the sh** out of me, but there was nothing I could say, and I'm sure that the other two crew felt the same. Pax were speechless on the way out...