what goes around

[psocoptera]

In theory, go-arounds are pretty rare in commercial aviation, but I was just in my second one landing in Boston today. The previous time was in heavy clouds/fog, so I'm not actually sure how close we came to the runway before pulling back up - this one we actually bumped on the runway, but the plane was rocking a lot, so I guess they decided it was less risky to go back up than to try to complete an iffy landing. The captain said something about wind conditions. Second landing attempt from a different direction went fine. I was pretty rattled and tbh am still - even knowing that's a normal thing they practice, I would rather not be a passenger in any kind of unplanned airplane event. My heart rate went through the roof at the time and keeps having little upticks. (I guess now I know what Justin meant when he said he didn't want to think about it.)

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[glassonion]

Yikes. I'm glad you're okay.

[glynhogen]

I began to Not Enjoy flying pre-Covid, then very very actively wanted to not fly any more, and the past couple months have been enough to (irrationally, numbers-wise) doubt the "safest form of transit" mantra.

I, too, am glad you're okay.

[psocoptera]

Yeah, I wish I had a better sense of whether things have really gotten worse and how much. My family are "flying people", if that makes sense, like, it is very much our family culture that we take planes places... so it would be convenient for me to keep being a flying person... :/