Kuwait Airways hard landing caught on video

So I am guessing it was the pilots fault for landing to hard? or was it an emergency? Sorta lost here.

Yes, it’s not a good airline. Yes their maintenance has been in the news recently… but the KU pilots are second to none! Some of the most talented people in the air.

You have to love how Heathrow reacted so swiftly. They made it look so easy.

This was written in the newspaper before 1 week ago.
I think it was from the aircraft tyres on the front.

I get my tickets for free, there is no reason not to fly them, and the flight attendants and pilots are what makes flying with them worth it. Otherwise Its Qantas air, everything else including emirates AW and their noodle packs on economy class can kiss makwiti.

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2 of my brothers and 2 of my cousins are KA pilots..you guys don’t have a clue about how hard they train to be able to fly. They’re sent to UK’s finest air-flight schools, where they study up to two years, which includes their hours flying. Once theyre done the stay up to another yr studying for the actual fleet aircrafts.

The pilots ARE highly skilled and trained, their is no wasta once ur in the flight school in the UK, if your not up to standards and fail the exams, your CUT!

KA seriously needs new planes.

It’s so sad to see one of the first and best airlines in the middle east declining so rapidly.

the landing seems to be normal i have seen way worse landings that that !!!

“The pilots ARE highly skilled and trained, their is no wasta once ur in the flight school in the UK, if your not up to standards and fail the exams, your CUT!

KA seriously needs new planes.”

Flying airplanes is not about flighstchool and taking exams in two years… its about training training and training… MORE IMPORTANTLY PASSION.

Unfortunately most Kuwait Airways pilots dont have passion for flying, they do it either for money or cuz it sounds cool. Dont tell me there is no was6a, it is FULL of was6a to get there. And just for ur information, most of them are those who didn’t do well in their math and physics in highschool.. most of them are graduates from ma3had deeni, which is a religions school with very low admission requirements.

Dont blame it on the airplanes… in worst case is to have all engines shut off and no power… a true pilot would still be able to fly and land safely… a crappy landing like that (which is nothing new to KA) has nothing to do with airplane age.

@Les, thats exactly why they’re doing this. what a waste…

Actually last week I arrived from KA flight and both flights (depart + arrival) were good. I seen someone with 3-lines (I would assume to be the co-pilot) himself going around the cabin (including economy class) DURING LANDING to ensure everyone’s safety, asking everyone to fasten his/her seatbelts and checking that everyone has his belt fastened.

I gotta admit it though, that person was NOT a kuwaiti 🙁

@3azeez I agree with you, nothing wrong with the airplanes age!

we are human and we got rusty sometimes due long holiday, injury ..etc so as aviators, we get to do a lots of written test and check rides every time we got those rusty issues.

Kuwait Airways have to improve their maintenance staff and system, if everything is going to work bil was6aat nothing is going to work in this country.

notihng beats Egypt air to tell you the truth!

One of my colleagues aunts is married to a KA pilot and that pilot drinks a lot and only god knows when will an accident occur. Add to that the staff suck and the whole KA suck, customers care comes last here in Kuwait nothing strange! You wanna complain shove your head in the toilet. I have never seen flight attendants giving you a bad look the moment u get on the plane and they don’t even want to serve you properly wonder why they took that job in the first place. KA will never be respected.

I can’t help but remembering the golden era of Kuwait Airways ,, when it was the Elite airline of the ME !!! That was before the invasion,, What a BIG BIG gap between Q8 before 1990 and after !!! 3amar ya Kuwait !!

Dj Hams I am a Kuwaiti and I have never flew with Kuwait airways without experiencing a bad service and a bad attitude during the whole flight. I stopped flying with them more than a decade now. I also know an old Kuwaiti man, very decent and very respectful who was asked to leave the plane for no good reason just cause the pilot didn’t want him to come along I bet that never happened to you Dj Hams.

Kuwait Airways pilots are skilled, most of the flights I had with KA were smooth, better than American Airlaines pilots. but we definitely need new planes

DJ Hams… it’s ok, they suck if you’re European as well.

its funny how everyspeaks likes an expert on aircraft maintenance, i bet no one on this forum went on a round inspecting kuwiat airways planes and their daily maintenance, how many KU accidents have you heard of – ZERO – so if you hate kuwait airways for whatever reason fly another airline and stop hating and speaking like you know how the maintain there aircraft

thank you m, the only comment that made a valid point. Most of these comments are by people who do not even have knowledge about the industry, maintenance, etc. I have several close relatives working in KAC engineering and I do see how seriously they take their jobs. And to the uninformed people, was6a does not allow people to get pilot or engineering licenses and work in those fields. Since Kuwait follows the European system, their engineers must have JAR licenses and pass requirements from Kuwait’s DGCA. Try to make educated comments based on facts. You cannot judge the safety and maintenence because of the poor customer service levels or financial situation of the company.

i just love how kuwaities will never admit that they have any problem !!!!
thats like so funny 🙂