A few years ago we had 'one of those landings' on an AA flight from JFK. We were sitting way up front and watching out the window and we both commented we thought our position for landing was way off and as we actually neared the Maho area, the pilot powered up and did a go-round. It had happened one other time so we weren't too worried.

Back again and all lined up and we can see the faces of the fence hangers as we're coming in and at what seemed like a quarter of the way down the runway, we did another up, up and away and another big circle.

By this time, there was almost dead silence on the plane and not word one from the crew. Thank God, the third time was a charm, for more reasons than one.

We were later told by someone who actually watched this all happening from the Sunset Beach Bar that had the pilot not made it in to land on the third attempt we were then bound for Puerto Rico. I don't know if that last is fact or fiction but I want to tell you, it was one very scary arrival and I don't think we were ever as low over the water as that plane in question appears to be in the photo posted. His reaction was, "Oh my God! You were on that flight? We were all praying for you....." I didn't think it was quite thaaaat bad but I was somewhat worried too. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" />