> My wife and I were flying Vangaurd airlines (now defunct?) into Kansas
> city (on a 737) a couple years ago and on *very short* final the pilot
> made us all temporarily weightless to get back down on the glide slope
> quickly.  Recent x-rays show that my wife's fingernails are still
> embeded into the bone of my left forearm.  It was a windy day, but not
> *that* windy.

This reminds me of a flight in a British Airways 757 back in 1993,
into London Heathrow, when the crew engaged full spoilers plus
reversers at full throttle about 3nm from the airport...

  Andras

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