Hard Landing
BET Journal | February 01, 2024
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Hard Landing

BET Journal | December 10, 2025

The pilots of a passenger aircraft are landing at an airport that they’ve not flown to before. They set the plane perfectly down on the runway, but almost immediately see they are running out of space. They throw the engines into reverse and apply the brakes, and the plane just manages to stop before it runs onto the grass.

One pilot looks incredulously at the other and says: “Wow! I think that’s the shortest runway we’ve ever landed on!” The other pilot looks out the side windows to left and right, and says “Yeah, and you know something? It’s the widest one too!”

The pilots of a passenger aircraft are landing at an airport that they’ve not flown to before. They set the plane perfectly down on the runway, but almost immediately see they are running out of space. They throw the engines into reverse and apply the brakes, and the plane just manages to stop before it runs onto the grass.

One pilot looks incredulously at the other and says: “Wow! I think that’s the shortest runway we’ve ever landed on!” The other pilot looks out the side windows to left and right, and says “Yeah, and you know something? It’s the widest one too!”

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