Video of Airbus almost eating shit in crosswind today
 

If this dont make your ass pucker.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ddb_1204404185

http://www.lars-tretau.de/forumbilder/LH(c).jpg

Holy shit, fucker did a touch and go! Nice save!

be interesting to see where the plane ended up. He had no choice but to abort the landing but scraping the wing down the runway like that had to fuck it up.

Fuck, that was so scarry, and my hats of to the pilot. Keeping the cool like that, and managing to at least try to bring it down....

Tho, should have no tried to land at all.

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holy shit holy shittttttttttttttttttttttttttt

people wonder why i pop a bottle of Xanax befoore flights

That shit came in crooked as hell.


So what is he rest of the story???

crazy video man.. You should have shopped that around to some TV stations prior to posting it on the web.

Nice .... errr .. I am flying out to Orlando from Vancouver at 9:00 am tomorrow .. nice to see that kind of footage .. only comforts me like a mother hugs her child .. sept the hugging and momma part ..

holy shit, wow, haha

Nice shot. Wow!

Did the wing actually touch the ground or is it just so close it's throwing up the water spray?

That was fucking nutty...

if i was on that plane, there would be a big pile of shit in my seat

Fuck that would be scary.

Crosswinds were above Airbus limits. Apparently an Airbus is harder to land in crosswinds than a Boeing due to adjustments their computers make.

Pulled from another board in regards to crosswinds

Holy disaster averted

Imagine you were a passanger in that machine, wow what must they have thought.

Wowsers.

Remind me not to fly Lufthansa :)

If you look closely at the photo you can see the wing is actually flexed so it is definitely on the ground. Also, look at the wing tips - the one on the right wing tips out, the one on the left wing touching the ground is vertical.

Too close for comfort

now I know where not to fly

Why? The pilot saved that shit from a disaster. If anything, i'd definatelly fly lufthansa.

Also, it's visible how the computers were trying to re-adjust the plane to the winds. Amazing vid.

On the news this morning they said the plane landed safely on the second attempt.

You know that there was not one unsoiled pair of underwear on that plane.

:2 cents:

Something similar happened to me once landing in fog on the East coast.

You couldn't see a thing until 10' off the deck. I look out the window and we're at about a 30 degree angle to the runway. I thought for sure we were going to wipe out on the grass. The pilot literally bounced the plane off the runway and hit it full throttle. We circled around and landed fine.

I'm surprised this guy tried so long before saying fuck it and hitting the throttle.

Slipping a plane like that is a bitch. and then right when he was about to touch down, the wind gusted. Man

I am not certain, but due to the sheer size and force of it coming down, i would be willing to bet that once committed, you are committed, i was shocked to see him even able to bring it back up to air speed and climb.

Murdoch picked up on it http://video.news.sky.com/skynews/vi...ing_030308.flv

They reported here that the pilot is getting some kind of reward, as he should. Pure mastery at driving a plane that size like that.

I would crap my pants

The pilot may have done a good job getting it back into the air (I believe TOGA is Throttles Open Go Around or something like that) but it's no use calling him a hero when he probably SHOULDN'T HAVE TRIED TO LAND THERE in the first place!

CNN reported that wing did scrape, he went around again and landed safely. They said the cross-winds were gusting above 110 (not sure if that was MPH or KPH).

I would have to assume he was low fuel or that was the best weather airport in range. No way a pilot would *voluntarily* try that landing in those conditions.

there she blowwss

i would like to mention that the second pilot was a 24 year old chick ;)

Pilot is not the one making those decisions, especially in a weather like that. He was given a green light from the tower, or else he wouldn't have tried to land.

So the air traffic controller knows the intimate details and quirks of every model of aircraft landing there, like an experienced pilot would? Nup. They have some control over the landing such as choosing runways but ultimately the decision about whether it is safe to attempt a landing rests with the pilots.

I've seen some people say it may have been low on fuel which kinda limits their choices. :Oh crap

WTF does that have to do with anything?

They know is it safe to land or not better then the pilot and what kind of weather they have on the strips. He was given a green light from the tower 100%. 0% pilot responsibility on this one.

whoa intense

When people ask why pilots get paid so much, it's for times like that.

Those pilots must have nerves of steel

Little wing scrape never hurt anybody......

tower says clear for landing, computers handle the landing with that aircraft.

it appears that the pilot bailed the computer out on that one when the wind shifted at the last moment there.