Originally Posted By: Virtus_Probi
Years ago, in perfect weather, was in a plane which landed really hard with a pronounced tilt, bounced, came down again with the tilt, seemed to be running on only one side of the rear landing gear, and then suddenly slammed down the airborne side down.
All of us passengers were talking about what a rotten landing that was, and suddenly the captain came on and said we should all congratulate copilot blahblah on his first ever landing of a 737! The whole plane jeered and then razzed the poor guy on the way out...he looked really embarrassed and [censored] all at once.
The captain didn't want to take the heat for that landing.
We had one, once, the ground came up so fast I instinctively pulled my feet up off the floor. BANG, the plane slammed down. A number of the oxygen masks popped out of their overhead compartments. So there we are, taxing to the terminal, with a half dozen or so oxygen masks hanging down. I still remember one of the fellows (who's oxygen mask deployed) looking back, with a rather unsettled look on his face.
Usually, the pilot opens the cockpit door and cheerfully thanks you for flying their airline, have a nice day, yada, yada. Not this time. The cockpit door stayed closed and we all shuffled out in silence.