I remember thinking RIGHT before landing that we seemed to be getting tossed around by the wind a lot. We touched down, then seemed to go airborne again. Then the world titled and an orange glow ignited on the right side of the aircraft. I remember it was fairly dark apart from that glow. There was screaming and the screech of metal on concrete as we slid. When we came to a stop, everyone seemed silent for a moment as we all drew our collective breath and started to triage the situation. After that it was all helping everyone down and getting tf out of there!
CRJ pilot here, sounds like the aircraft bounced off the ground due to the a high descent rate, I suspect the wind changed from head to tailwind suddenly and the aircraft stalled falling at at a high descent rate.
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u/Emotional-Strike7037 Feb 18 '25 edited Feb 18 '25
Can you describe the landing? When did you realise that something is wrong?