6 Go Arounds At Gatwick in One go!

Gatwick Airport London LGW/EGKK 10th March 2008.A very windy day !! With 90 degree crosswinds .It was so windy it was very difficult to hold the camera still. Sorry about the wind noise.

[@paulnod]

26 and 08 although it does have 26r and 08l which is shorter and very rarely used and of course no good if the winds are 190 at 26kts plus!!But no other direction facing runway

[@paulnod]

i don't believe it was the same one as you would not want to try that approach again, i felt for the passengers ,i would have hated it.

[@paulnod]

@appleglory Remember, gusts of 71 Knots but not all the time it was one of the worst days i had seen at LGW for a long time.

[@paulnod]

as far as i am aware once they did a go around they did not come back until the weather got better

[@paulnod]

i believe on runway 26L it was 190 degrees most of the time with gusts up to 40 knots

[@gymcoach15]

Wow that had to be a very stressful day for air traffic control.

[@paulnod]

Needles Old Battery (Isle of Wight) 83 Knots 10/03/2008 13:00

[@paulnod]

Mumbles Head (near Swansea) 71 Knots 10/03/2008  0400

[@wifwat]

Very nice!! That would have been some ride! lol

[@paulnod]

Isle of Portland (Dorset) 67 Knots 10/03/2008 1300

[@paulnod]

Berry Head (Devon) 71 Knots 10/03/2008 0300

[@RingwaySam]

Excellent. Thanks for sharing! :-)

[@paulnod]

Here is a BBC Report . Many places had severe gales and heavy rain on the 10th, with the south-west of England especially taking the brunt of this storm. There were gusts of wind in excess of 70 m.p.h. and some of the rain and showers were accompanied by thunder. some very squally winds were noted further south. Berry Head (Devon) recorded a gust of 82 m.p.h. on the 10th and Crosby (Merseyside) recorded a gust of 75 m.p.h. on the 12th.

[@Missmorrigen]

71 knots.. is over a hurricane :p ? 64+ is hurricane, and when i's hurricane airports are suppose to be closed (:

[@warminator1091]

Looks like a typical nasty day that occurs in autumn or winter. Oh dear.. The poor pax.

[@congaleader2000]

I understand Gatwick only has one runway so there's no other option, correct?

[@darcougar]

lotta wasted fuel that day. safety comes first of course

[@Ben123planes]

do you know how many (in knots) thw wind was?

[@1037pm]

Only one landing out of all of those, scary

[@ManiacMitchUK]

My Tutor At School Was On That Plane xD

[@appleglory]

71 knots... your kidding me right?

[@ForeverBlue1989]

wow that is a very bad day to fly

[@gary747pilot]

wat if u was on those planes

[@stuartvaughan4677]

71 knots wow!

[@Ben123planes]

@paulnod wow

[@soeffingwhat]

@DarkDeseas - if you think it was cool to be on one of those planes then you don't know much about it. if feels like Hell.

[@soeffingwhat]

Yes and plenty of Vomit to clean up afterwards. I HATE Turbulent Landings, they make me feel sick

[@soeffingwhat]

@DarkDeseas good for you, I wish I could do that