plane landing in high wind

[DMosher]

This was on the news this morning.



Plane scrapes wing during landing in Germany - CNN.com



Doug

 

[Crash&Burn]

What a crosswind..... he just missed his or her timing coming out of the crab...

Good job going around ... ..... bet the pass. were making some noise. :-laf

 

[GAmes]

I wonder how long it took for doctors to remove the seat cushion from the pilot's rectum. Amazing skill in getting airborn again for the go around!

 

[JGrefenstette]

that was some dang good flying right there, i tell you what. i bet them passengers had a story to tell...

 

[OKish]

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[Skydiver]

I've always been fascinated by aircraft. So much that in 1993 when I was still a newly wed I would take my bride on mini vacations to Atlanta. Would rent a room about 6 floors up right beside the Int. airport. This night it was about 26 degrees F. wind was at 30 to 40 mph. Had my scanner tuned to the approach frequency. I could see the whites of the passengers eyes. It was scary!

 

[AH64ID]

He did a nice job on the go around... . makes me glad I fly helo's... cross wind, what cross wind BTW that was one HELL of a crosswind... he got the left wing in a wind pocket as he took the crab out and it gave the left wing less lift than the right, and you have scrapage... .

 

[GAmes]

He did a nice job on the go around... . makes me glad I fly helo's... cross wind, what cross windQUOTE]



I guess you never worry about a singe engine failure, with a full load of ammo and fuel? It's been 15 years since I've been in a AH-64, I sure do miss them.

 

[SGibson]

Just another day on the carrier, even threw in a bolter, probably an ex A-3 pilot.

 

[PC12Driver]

Yeah, that was a nice go-around, but...



The winds reported at the time were from 290* (west-northwest), 35 knots gusting to 55 knots, and he attempted to land on runway 23. That's a 60* crosswind angle, which works out to be a 47+ knot crosswind component. The maximum component for a 320 is something like 33 kts with a 38 kt gust component. No wonder they couldn't hold it.



After they broke it off (literally), they circled around to runway 33 and landed safely (runway 33 works out to a 40* cut and a 35 knot crosswind component).



So, yes that was a nice go around, but they put themselves in a bad situation to begin with. Kinda like congratulating a firefighter that just put out a fire that he started.



You know it's probably not going to end up well if someone is already waiting there with a video camera...

 

[AH64ID]

I guess you never worry about a singe engine failure, with a full load of ammo and fuel? It's been 15 years since I've been in a AH-64, I sure do miss them.

Well then your just having a bad day Or in that much wind you could hover single engine We had some serious winds here 2 weeks ago and were doing "roll-ons" w/out ground run... was pretty fun... .



I do like the bird, its an amazing airframe. I start my APART today... be glad when thats done

 

[The patriot]

I saw that vid the other day on live leak.

You should see some of the landings at Tegucigalpa, Honduras. :{

 

[PToombs]

I've seen a bunch of those! That place is down in a hole. Hole, heck! It's in a darn crater!

 

[JoshPeters]

Like these?



Watch at about the 2:50 mark... man they get close!



YouTube - Toncontin Internation - Tegucigalpa, Honduras

 

[DJW]

A few years ago flying into Wellington New Zealand, (a city known for high winds) the ride was rough, looking out of the window I thought I could see tuffs of snow on the mountains and thought, 'it will smooth out near the sea'. In fact that was the crest of waves and we were close to them. The way I felt at the time was, 'after getting out of this how will I get back to San Francisco?' as at that moment further flying was out of the question. My wife's aunt who I was staying with, lived at 600 feet elevation on a hill next to the airport, so after seeing numerous landings my faith was restored.

 

[bighammer]

I was on one of the last flights to land in New Orleans one night years ago. When the landing lights came on, all you could see was blowing snow. (I was thinking I must've gotten on the wrong flight ) First attempt was aborted and after being tossed around for a really long time, we were finally landed. They closed the airport shortly after until the storm passed.