[smartd]

Watch the news and You Tube for this one.
Just on the news a Lufthansa trying to land in high wind. Blown all over the place before pilot aborted and flew around for 15 minutes before trying again.

[flyXwire]

Yahoo!

[STARMAN 352ND]

Wow....See how close his wing was to hitting the ground.....He was very lucky to get out of that one.
JP

[JustPlaneNuttz]

That's one scary attempt, I'll say. Talk about about loading ones pants. . . YIKES. It looks like if he DID actually make more than one point contact with the strip he may have destroyed the landing gear with greater consequences. Yeah -- scary, indeed!

Anyone here ever experience anything like that??

JPN

[STARMAN 352ND]

Originally Posted by JustPlaneNuttz

Anyone here ever experience anything like that??

Not in a airliner i haven't ......Other aircrafts maybe once or twice... but not like that...
That one right there will scare the living daylights out of you in the passenger seat.

Now this is what he was trying to do:

[jim]

I am trying to figure out why the pilot attempted a landing in those conditions.

He was in trouble all the way in on his approach.

I think it was nothing short of miraculous that he managed to recover and climb again.

Look at how much rudder he had on the plane, either he is the best pilot ever or the stupidest?

What do you all think?

I wonder if he was a B52 pilot in a previous life?

[JustPlaneNuttz]

Originally Posted by STARMAN 352ND

That one right there will scare the living daylights out of you in the passenger seat.

Just watching that from the comfort of my desk gave me some serious cause for concern. Fortunately I have no business trips plannedand with luck I will have forgotten about that video by the time I do have to make one !! (That really IS a great close-call video, though!!)

JPN

[coldupnorth]

Have you ever seen this one? At the end of the video, the 747 still doesn't seem under control...

YouTube - Boeing 747 cross wind

The scariest landing I experienced was without flaps. It was a rough one but nothing as scary as this...

CUPN

[Nockers]

HAMBURG, Germany (March 3) - A Lufthansa jet carrying 131 passengers was caught by gusting wind as it tried to land during a storm, causing a wing tip to graze the runway before the pilot got the plane back off the ground, the airline said Monday.

The incident happened on Saturday as the Airbus A320 approached Hamburg airport on a flight from Munich.
Airline spokesman Wolfgang Weber said the plane was rocked by wind clocked at 155 mph as it tried to land.

The left wing grazed the runway for a moment, but Weber said the pilot was able to stabilize the aircraft and take off again in what he called an "absolutely professional maneuver."

The plane landed safely shortly afterward on its second attempt.

"It was a dicey situation," Weber said. "People were quite shaken."

"It is hard to describe - it went very quickly," passenger Hansi Kuepper said on n-tv television. He said there was silence on board for several minutes after the incident.

The plane went back into service Sunday after repairs, Weber said.

[djjeffhall]

The Lutfansa video made the evening news last week. Pretty scary stuff. I think the pilot did a great job, but I ain't no pilot so he could also have been REALLY foolish. I'll leave it to the pros to tell the difference.