(Paul Tomblin) wrote in message ...


I've been on a heavy that did a go-around. The pilot said that another
plane blundered onto the runway.

We had to do one in a DC-10 in Las Vegas a bunch of years ago. I was
watching out the window and we kept floating down the runway. Just as
we passed the halfway point on that runway, the pilot went to max
power. We went screaming off the airport boundry at about 150'AGL and
well over 200kts. Wheeled around and landed on another runway. Never
did climb above 500' in the turn. The captain's explanation was the
sudden wind shift of more than 90 degrees and it raising up to 30kts
continous. I still remember the dust clouds we set rolling through a
subdivision as we roared over it.

Craig C.