Scary Landing

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

This is the landing you don't need to experience. The pilot pulled this out, though. This plane eventually landed safely in Hamburg, Germany.

[Sinergy 3]

omg

thank god he didnt continue to try and land

[AnewKINDofFEELIN 0]

Holy #######. I can't believe he even attempted that landing. Lucky he didn't kill anyone. He did a pretty good job, though.

[KiKi 0]

I am TERRIFIED of flying. That literally made me sick to watch....

[GaryC 7]

I saw an interview with an airline pilot on this. He said the pilot was wrong in even trying to land with a cross wind like that and to top it off he didn't preform the maneuver correctly to try it anyway. He said everyone on that plane was lucky they didn't get killed.

[eau_xplain 2]

A long time ago we had an almost similar experience as we were trying to land at the Frankfurt airport. There was a storm at that time and as we were making our approach the head winds were too much that the pilot decided to abort the landing and went back up for another try. It was very scary as we were already so close to the ground that we could see the runway lights when he decided to go back up.

[payxibka 10,045]

Sure must have been a he!!uva crosswind to make that airplance "crab" like that

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

A long time ago we had an almost similar experience as we were trying to land at the Frankfurt airport. There was a storm at that time and as we were making our approach the head winds were too much that the pilot decided to abort the landing and went back up for another try. It was very scary as we were already so close to the ground that we could see the runway lights when he decided to go back up.

I've sat in on one of those landing in D.C.

[garya505 2]

Looks like he just forgot to straighten out before touchdown.

[LoriLawless 0]

I am TERRIFIED of flying. That literally made me sick to watch....

Me too

[garya505 2]

A long time ago we had an almost similar experience as we were trying to land at the Frankfurt airport. There was a storm at that time and as we were making our approach the head winds were too much that the pilot decided to abort the landing and went back up for another try. It was very scary as we were already so close to the ground that we could see the runway lights when he decided to go back up.

Actually headwinds are a good thing when landing. It's the crosswinds that make it tricky. The first time I soloed I had too much crosswind (I thought) but my instructor said, "go ahead, you can do it". It was a little rough.

[lucyrich 20]

Holy #######. I can't believe he even attempted that landing. Lucky he didn't kill anyone. He did a pretty good job, though.

Doing a pretty good job and being lucky not to kill people seem to be contradictory.

There's a saying in aviation circles: A superior pilot uses his superior judgement to avoid situations where he would have to demonstrate his superior skill.

It's very hard to judge the amount of risk by just looking at a video -- I certainly can't say how close he came to disaster, or whether he should have aborted the approach earlier. I used to fly small planes, and I'm just glad nobody was filming all of my attempted crosswind landings. Some were pretty ugly.

[simple_male 1]

This is the landing you don't need to experience. The pilot pulled this out, though. This plane eventually landed safely in Hamburg, Germany.

Scary!

[Bootylicious!! 2]

I'd have $hit my pants. :lol:

[Sinergy 3]

I'd have $hit my pants. :lol: