Afaik they touched the runway with the tip of the wing and damaged it but landed safely in the end...
Anyone of you had similar "situations" during flight? Thank god I didn't have yet. I don't have any fear of flight at all but in this moment I'd still have shat quite a brick....
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Yeah...the weather and wind has been horrendous here the last few days...and I have a flight tomorrow morning.
When I was leaving Birmingham last week the pilot had alot of trouble keeping it straight and on rotation the plane shifted violently to the right of the runway. I looked out the window as the rear wheels got airbourne and we were nearly off the runway completely (down it's main axis). Some people in the plane (dumb brits) began screaming like they were going to die. The landing in Hamburg after that was also pretty rough and we aborted our first approach with the pilot later saying "there was a helicopter on the runway". Yeah right.
Also too...when I was on the ferry from Denmark to Germany yesterday they had closed the outside decks due to the wind.
The waves were fucking massive (at least 3 metres) and I saw...for the first time in my life...a rogue wave. This thing was huge but luckily wasn't coming towards us. Keep in mind...this is in the Baltic Sea, which isn't that deep (relatively speaking) so the wave height was quite unusual.
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Afaik they touched the runway with the tip of the wing and damaged it but landed safely in the end...
Anyone of you had similar "situations" during flight? Thank god I didn't have yet. I don't have any fear of flight at all but in this moment I'd still have shat quite a brick....
Wouldn't they usually land a plane on a runway perpendicular to the one actually used in the video?
GONNAFISTYA wrote:Also too...when I was on the ferry from Denmark to Germany yesterday they had closed the outside decks due to the wind.
The waves were fucking massive (at least 3 metres) and I saw...for the first time in my life...a rogue wave. This thing was huge but luckily wasn't coming towards us. Keep in mind...this is in the Baltic Sea, which isn't that deep (relatively speaking) so the wave height was quite unusual.
Kopenhagen - Lübeck/Travemünde ferry?
That's where I worked last year. Always got itchy feet when watching the ferries leave...
I didn't find the storm too rough (i live southeast of hamburg). At least not as rough as the media hyped in their predictions. Ok there were some casualties but hey, life's no pony ranch...
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Holy SHIT! I've never seen a plane crab that hard into a crosswind on landing! That's one hell of a pilot, and a lot of brown, full lederhosen on that plane. The airfield operations director should have the shit slapped out of him for not changing the runways.
it looked impossible to land....because as soon as the plane hits the pavement the wheels will try to force the plane straight on the runway at which point the gust weill catch the wing . That wind looked so heavy that I'm sure a plane at a complete stop would still be a hazard.
Respect to the pilot no doubt, yet I can't stop thinking that both the pilot(s) and the air traffic controllers should know better to even attempt it...they should have redirected the plane to another location ...but I don't know all the variables ( fuel availability / available regional airports etc.)
ps
it had to be a total mind fuck for the passengers on the left side, being able to look down the runway while landing
Yep, that was the one and only Bob Hoover in a Shrike Commander doing a 1g barrel roll. That was also him doing all the engines-off aerobatics. Guy was a fucking aviation legend.
That's pretty cool. Reminds me of when I'd swing a bucket full of water around in a circle when I was a little kid and it would all stay stuck to the bottom.
