Normal descent into Entebbe, familiar sight of Lake Victoria
out of the window, then all the engines increase power and we are going up
again… fly on for 20 miles, turn and, after an impromptu over-flight of the
Ssese Islands, we head back and land in the opposite direction.
Apparently the reason was that we had a full
aircraft and a significant tail-wind… but we actually wondered if perhaps the
co-pilot was having a go and the Captain took over!
Reminds us of a
number of times taking over medically from junior colleagues also about to hit
a heavy landing!
So we don’t just take travel for granted, we had had a
similar experience years ago coming into Nairobi on a Kenya Airways airbus…
that episode was more dramatic with the plane lurching up having been almost at
touch-down. It turned out that a Air
France plane had pulled onto the runway ahead and we would have collided. So we are grateful to arrive here safely once
again…
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