Originally Posted by fli48rc

Had an opportunity to fly NRT-AMS on KLM... 2nd flight of their new 330. Got to AMS, and the pilot had to guess where to park the plane at the gate. The ground crew hadn't yet painted the spot on the pavement, where to place the nose gear. Well the pilot missed by about 4 feet, took 20 minutes for a tow motor to arrive to reposition the a/c. The flight crew opened the doors and no one wanted to jump between the jetway and the door... wonder why... long fall, hard landing... like most of my r/c flights lately