Scary Landings Time

Whenever you are in your final minute of your flight, the words that you would like to hear from your captain are - welcome to "destination", local time is so and so and hope you fly with us again sometime in the near future. But, have you ever been in a situation, where you heard your captain say - he is aborting landing because there is another plane on the runway or an announcement saying - huh, hey we landed! Now, that's scary!
My most scariest landing ever, was a southwest flight from Baltimore to Raleigh-Durham, a very bumpy landing by the pilot, almost ended up dragging the plane all the way to the end of the runway and the words - hey, we landed safely, congrats!. Jeez...that would scare the heck, even out of a seasoned road warrior. Even though i was in the middle of the plane, i could feel that runway was about to end!
Another scary landing experience, was in a very turbulent weather at New York's Laguardia airport in a very small 30 seater Embraer jet. Flying in from Toronto into LGA, i have never felt scary or rather never felt happy to be back on ground again after that experience. I was actually holding onto armrests on both the sides, looking outside through the window in a freezing rain, imagining that this is how its gonna end! The plane landed in wind gusts of about 40-50 mph, flying like a drunk bird, swaying right-n-left and the pilot warned that it would be a rough landing. I bet no scary ride at six flags can beat the heck out of that landing. Just close your eyes imaging that, landing on a tarmac in those conditions at 250 mph and breaking into a right turn towards your gate.

Another landing, i donno if i would have ever known how close i was to a very danger zone, but on a Continental flight from Newark to Salt Lake City, the pilot, about to land at salt lake city airport announced that he is aborting the landing because there's another plane on the tarmac, and he lifted the plane upward, took a very wide circle around the salt lake and came back for a safe landing.
These experiences have made me very paranoid about flying or rather landing when flying in a small plane like Embraer or bombardier. I have vowed to avoid them at all, if possible. These days when flying, i also look for what aircraft is being used to fly that route. Have you ever been in such an awkward or tense moment before? Share them, may be we might have something in common - scared of small planes!
Relax - until the next rumble.