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Posted on 11/14/2026 3:54:28 AM PST by DFG
A packed British Airways jet was involved in a terrifying landing scare during its touchdown at Heathrow Airport.
Flight BA431, flying from Amsterdam to London on Thursday local time, had to dramatically abort its touchdown after its tail struck the runway when attempting to land.
According to The Sun, screaming could be heard coming from the 220 passengers as the aircraft hit the tarmac at around 11 a.m. on its left-side tyres.
In unbelievable footage captured by a plane-spotter nearby, the tailfin of the twin-jet Airbus A321neo crashed into the runway before having to climb back into the air again.
On board, passengers dramatically lurched forward in their seats as the pilots struggled to control the aircraft.
In unbelievable footage captured by a plane-spotter nearby, the tailfin of the twin-jet Airbus A321neo crashed into the runway before having to climb back into the air again.
On board, passengers dramatically lurched forward in their seats as the pilots struggled to control the aircraft.
The horror landing was captured on video by a stunned plane-spotter nearby.
“This is most irregular. There were screams. No one knew what was happening,” a source told The Sun.
“This near-crash is very rare. The plane was buffeted by high winds, but usually the pilots have this scenario under control.
“An investigation will get to the bottom of what happened.”
The outlet reported that early investigations pointed to a “misjudgment” in the cockpit, while it had been reported to the Air Accidents Investigation Branch – tasked with investigating “civil aircraft accidents and serious incidents within the UK.”
News.com.au has reached out to British Airways for comment.
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You Nailed It
Looks like they landed long, tried to force it on, left main hit pretty hard and at the last minute decided to do a go-around. The pull up was pretty steep. Didn’t appear to be much of a cross wind.
Aviation Ping!...............
That’s really wild.
The winds were crazy. Not going to assume DIE though, because my initial impression is that a DIE pilot wouldn’t have had the skillsets nor psychological mettle to take back off for the successful go around and landing.
Years back, I experienced an interesting landing in Hawaii — forget which island — where mere moments before touchdown, the pilot suddenly aborted and weeee, up we went. Instead of the expected tap to the ground it was full throttle.
It were as if a sudden collision hazard had appeared on the runway.
Well, after some seconds, it became.. obvious that whatever it was, he had successfully avoided it. 😃
He explained that there was a sudden downdraft, without explicitly stating that if he didn’t do that, the plane would have slammed onto the runway and game over.
Nobody screamed or otherwise freaked out. He was most apologetic as we all passed by the cockpit upon departure.
It was Halloween. The flight crew was eagerly handing out candy for their best effort at offering a consolation prize.
It’s Always Something.
The pilot must have been Australian. He landed the plane like an Oomigoolie Bird...........
I would think by the video there was a very strong cross wind and upon landing the pilot crabbed properly but did not have his upping wing dipped into the wind as he attempted to get the aircraft back on the runway centerline. Pilot misjudged the wind speed with likely high gusts and did not properly configure the aircraft for a significant cross wind landing.
That’ll buff right out and be good as new.
Oopsie. Spoke too soon.
The pilot’s name was Rip Cord. Always check before you board.
There’s a pilot who will NEVER fly again.
Pilot was Captain Pajeet Mudhra.
And you thought they were bad truck drivers.
You are not really supposed to hit the tail. However, it happens often enough that these planes are reenforced in this area. It’s not exactly a skid plate, but an incident like this is not a “near fatal.”
Here we had a mildish cross-wind so touching down on one gear is not unusual. (I would have expected the right gear first, though.)
Well he was flying a jeet airplane. Ahem...
Yes, why not just continue the landing? Seems intuitive to me, too.
I have the same question. I’m hoping one the Freepers can answer it.
And pack your own ‘chute lest it become carrion luggage.
can someone explain why they aborted the landing? unknown tail damage and they put it in the air again?
The tail damage was from raising the nose while throttling up to climb again. The wing is the axis; nose raises - tail drops. They were already committed to the full throttle aborted landing. Pulling back the throttles at that point would have pancaked the plane or overshot the runway.
Tail strikes happen more than they like to admit. If this wasn’t on video, the propaganda news media would have buried it.
Same thing happened to me coming into Honolulu. I was listening to the ATC radio audio (do they still do that?) and after I felt the pilot go WFO the tower started screaming at some 747 pilot to get off the runway NOW.
Our pilot kept climbing straight out and finally asks the tower what he should do.
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