To address a lot of the comments regarding autoland, the airport is not equipped with the necessary ILS beacons and systems to perform an ILS landing. Hope that clears up a lot of the questions.
Ouch. In his/her defence Heraklion has an awful runway. There is a hump in the touchdown down where the runway rises up to meet the aircraft and more time than not it will be firm.
What I find intriguing is the fact that the hard touch-down resulted in the pilot having to not use full thrust reversers, since the hard impact took out a lot of the speed.
I guess the reason for this hard landing is the runway ramp. Check that stiff drop of ground into the sea right before the runway threshold. Imagine how a river (air is 80% water) rushing down the runway and a waterfall at the end of the runway. Before the landing, the airplane flew through this waterfall and smashed into the concrete, with the pilots being surprised as much as passengers. I got into this myself at GCLB on my second landing when the wind was different. That's how pilots learn.
Its not pathetic and seeing as this comment was written a month ago, you should have been aware that easyjet have since changed their polocy allowing passenger to book seats. know the facts before you start complaining.
I've done the Heraklion landing many times and I found easyJet were the worst too! Doesn't fill me with confidence about their pilots...and the seating system was rubbish. Speedy boarding at Heraklion (& Bristol) was no different to normal boarding!
Glad you liked my video Kate, as you can see you have a lovely view of the sea and land, lovely island too
Cool landing!! I flew there in 2012 and I'm going back in August. I remember thinking that we'd land in the sea! :)
Nothing cool, in fact. Clearly landing mistake by the pilot, cause the plane, after the initial touchdown, jumped into the air again.
Theres no better feeling than vacating the runway at your destination of your choice
I have been now for 5 years on the run and I can't wait to go back in June :) stalis :)
To address a lot of the comments regarding autoland, the airport is not equipped with the necessary ILS beacons and systems to perform an ILS landing. Hope that clears up a lot of the questions.
Ouch. In his/her defence Heraklion has an awful runway. There is a hump in the touchdown down where the runway rises up to meet the aircraft and more time than not it will be firm.
What I find intriguing is the fact that the hard touch-down resulted in the pilot having to not use full thrust reversers, since the hard impact took out a lot of the speed.
well i flew to marrakech from paris with them and my seat was allocated. is it some flights have allocated seating and some dont?
Aer lingus have amazing landings
I love easyjet and RYANAIR and wizzair not aer lingus. 😲😒
An organised crash landing? Looks like a tropical paradise.
I guess the reason for this hard landing is the runway ramp. Check that stiff drop of ground into the sea right before the runway threshold. Imagine how a river (air is 80% water) rushing down the runway and a waterfall at the end of the runway. Before the landing, the airplane flew through this waterfall and smashed into the concrete, with the pilots being surprised as much as passengers. I got into this myself at GCLB on my second landing when the wind was different. That's how pilots learn.
Wow really hard landing
There is a VOR approach to RWY27
+Manchester Aviation yep my bad, just realized the charts i saw were outdated
+André They updated it just 10 days ago in fact :D
+Manchester Aviation ohh ok that explains a lot. Will be landing there tomorrow late morning btw.
+André Nice, I'm there mid August
+TheHead777
You can see perfectly fine sat behind the wing. And most of the time your sat where the airline says you will sit...
Nice smooth landing
Is it was a hard contact with a runway or it's just on video?:)
Pierre Samica it was a kiss landing
We had a hard landing here once they said it was to do the wind coming off the sea!!
Great video but safety first!
Owch :/ That was rough... Bet the pilot was a bit red in the face after that!!
I habe done this landing 4 times with different airlimes monarch thomas cook and jet 2 onl ever had 1 hard landin at that was on a thomas cook a320
rip me im gonna fly easyjet sooon to berlin (HARD LANDING AWARE)
Owww I could tell that hurt when touching down
I think it stalled at the last moment who else thinks that?
Its not pathetic and seeing as this comment was written a month ago, you should have been aware that easyjet have since changed their polocy allowing passenger to book seats. know the facts before you start complaining.
I've done the Heraklion landing many times and I found easyJet were the worst too! Doesn't fill me with confidence about their pilots...and the seating system was rubbish. Speedy boarding at Heraklion (& Bristol) was no different to normal boarding!
VERY HARD LANDING !!
@Tuiflyfan313 I was being sarcastic :P
ooooooooooooooooooooccccccccccccccccchhhhhhhhhhhhhh hard landing
A planes descent rate is irrelevant to the airline of which it flies for.
This video is proof that fspassengers is unrealistic with its tyre bursts!
This year was Thompson,went to Ibiza and the landing was near the same,wouldnt fly Easyjet again,can't be doing with mad rush to get a seat,pathetic.
Adrenaline!
Fucking Easyjet.... Might aswell autolanded that instead I'm sure it would've been way better.
sod that i would of slapped the polite lol
lol
That landing was terrible, I would never ever fly with easyjet.