Because they don’t do this at the station…
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ddb_1204404185
HOLY [censored] !!!
That is some scary stuff, bet everyone on that plane had to change their undies when they eventually DID land !
Cheers,
Warren
OMG! That looks like one of my FS9 approaches![:O]
-George
That’s some pretty severe crabbing. I’m kinda surprised the left gear never touched the ground and extremely surprised the left wing didn’t. Definitely shouldn’t have tried to force that landing. Maybe he though he was piloting a B-52, that actually could have landed like that. Before the part where it rolled over, I mean.
Thanks…this reinforces my promise to never, ever ride in anything that leaves the surface of the earth. Planes scare the beejeebus out of me.
Good save!
David B
Same video was all over tonight’s news. The pilot is being hailed (publically) as a hero. (I’d like to be a fly on the wall of DirFliOps office when he’s debriefed!) Incidentally, the left wingtip did touch - not hard enough to cause a ground loop, or there would have been a fireball instead a pullaround.
He was allegedly hit by a 100mph gust. That happened to a train on the FEC in 1935 (IIRC) - with the result that DIDN’T happen today.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
I thought I saw the wing hit. He’s lucky he didn’t damage any hydraulics for his go around.
They said on the news that the plane was back in service the next day.
I was in a bad cross wind landing once but not like THAT!
I’m sure a lot of laundry had to done that night![swg]
I just saw that clip on The Weather Channel!
Rotor
When they ran that first on cnn.com, the text said that the wing did indeed touch. I’m kind of surprised they didn’t abort the landing sooner.
I was in an RJ coming into Manchester, NH a couple of years ago. The descent was very rough, and I remember looking around and counting rows so I knew exactly where the emergency exits were. We got a couple of hundred feet off the ground and then went around, eventually diverting to Portland, Maine.
I talked with the pilot after we landed, and he said they got a wind shear light just a few seconds before touchdown, so they aborted the landing. “Good call,” I told him. Besides, they serve Shipyard Ale in Portland.
Wow, that’s insane! I can’t believe they made it that far without deciding to abort. Is that normal to try to land like that? I mean, obviously it isn’t ‘normal’, but does that happen very often?
Somebody is going to spend a bunch of time in the simulator practicing his cross wind landings …rofl.
If you look at the crab angle on his final approach, you can plainly see that was not a gust, it was a pretty strong sustained, though gusty, cross wind.
I’m mildly curious why he neglected to cross control when he straightened it for touchdown. I would have dropped the RIGHT wing. Maybe he trained on an Ercoupe.
I’m not a pilot, but wonder why the landing was attempted to begin with. You’d think the tower would have advised an abort well before the landing attempt, but I’m not sure what authority the tower has once a plane is that close to landing. Either way, I think the pilot should have pulled out long before the wheels got close to the runway.
I AM an instrument rated commercial pilot in both airplane and helicopter.
Air Traffic Control’s responsibility is co-ordination and advise. The Pilot-in-command bears the sole responsibility, and is the final decision maker for his flight. He can refuse the controller’s decision regarding which runway he should use.
Every flight is given the current wind speed, direction, and gust factors, when it is cleared to land. That pilot CHOSE to land in that cross wind.
…Or do you like to ride roller coasters?
Not a good day to fly. I wonder what the anticipation was like for the passengers when he attempted the second landing.
Could it be that the 100mph wind gusts developed while he was attempting to land? I really doubt the pilot would put his life in danger, never mind the passengers lives just to land the plane. I bet there is more to the story then what we know. Cool video though.
I definitely don’t want my wife to see that…she’s scared of flying as it is!
I’m also a provate pilot (but not current).
One thing I learned the hard way… You can’t salvage a good landing from a bad approach.
I actually flunked my FAA practical the first time I took it. Why? I’d just done my short and soft field takeoffs and landings at Vero Beach, FL, and I was feeling cocky. So, when I got a little low and slow and the normal approach and landing I tried to continue the approach. Honestly, it wasn’t my worst landing, but not one I wanted to do on my practical.
The examiner (an airline pilot and not a very forgiving guy) told me point blank that if I’d have gone around I would have passed. But because I ended up having to apply a lot of power at the end and landed shallow, I failed.
His argument was that you should never have to add power on approach and landing. One should only reduce power.
Of course, now that I pay attention to these things, most airline pilots are adding power at various points on approach and even on short final. Clearly one size does not fit all.
…but if I were the guy in the video I would have gunned it long before the threshold, and probably asked for an alternate airport!
So I’m thinking this pilot’s going to have a real ‘fun’ time with an inquiry board? [:-^]