Regardless, I bet he needed a new pair of underwear!
It still has its rudder. I guess they beefed that up on the 380.
That didn’t look so scary to me. Go watch some of the videos of planes landing at the old Hong Kong airport. Some of those are scary.
Anybody know what the cross wind was? What was the angle? I couldn’t find that info in the article.
Wow. The pilot bravely trusted the huge plane to land correctly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF9n7ShkOJ0
As soon as the rear landing gear touched down, the plane was controlled again by the engines instead of the wind.
Airplane is designed to do this, for an airplane that size he did exactly the right thing, coulda been a bit earlier kicking it straight but it’s a strong crosswind, the trucks are built for it and it was short sideload duration.
You don’t land on the upwind wheels in an airplane that size, you’ll break the gear.
The most fun (or “fun”) landing I’ve had on a civilian commercial flight was on the island of Saba in the Caribbean.
Highly recommend it.
every one on the news is freaking out about this video. I don’t know why. Crabbing a landing - regardless of the plane’s size - is a basic flight skill.
Here’s how it’s done-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCUHQ_-l6Qg
IMO a side slip is less scary and easier than crabbing. For some reason the jet Jockies always crab.
Beyond good pilot. Just plain tops.
Looked pretty nice actually..
That wasn’t that terrifying. Fairly routine for any large jet landing.
Hopefully they DRUG TEST the guy.
"German air traffic controllers at Frankfurt Airport are infamous for being a short-tempered lot," an U.S. pilot notes. So it was with some amusement that a United 747 listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt ground control and the pilot of a British Airways 747:
(BA 747, call sign Speedbird 206) "clear of the active runway after landing at Frankfurt and headed to off load passengers at his designated gate."
Ground: "Guten morgen, taxi to your gate."
(The BA 747 pulls onto the main taxiway and stops.)
Ground (brusquely): "Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?"
Speedbird: "Stand by ground, I'm looking up the gate location now."
Ground (impatient): "Speedbird 206, have you never been to Frankfurt before?"
Speedbird (coolly): "Yes, several times in 1944, but I didn't stop."
The 380’s like all the Air Busses are just to wired for me, I much prefer Boeing (if it ain't Boeing I ain't going)but Emiratis has mostly UK pilots so I'm not surprised with this guys skill.
Who are they kidding?. That was a perfect crosswind landing. To the uninformed it may look scary, but you have to keep the decent path over the the runway with the plane’s nose pointed into the crosswind until the moment of touch down. Once the wheels contact,you bring the tail around and straighten the craft down the runway. It was masterfully done.
Saw this on tv last night. They also showed a smaller plane having the same difficulty landing at the same airport..