Posted on 03/01/2016 10:23:31 AM PST by Loud Mime
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On YouTube there are some completely jaw dropping videos of crosswind landings. Some of these, you see the plane practically floating sideways, 40-45 degree angle of approach. Unbelievable.
Nope. Get-there-itis made the pilot overshoot the runway.
GREAT job, sir !
Google “kai tak airport”, you’ll find a slew of these. Kai Tak was hong Kongs airport until replaced a few years ago.
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"Oh feces!!" The pilot lost it on the rollout. You can see the left main drifting toward the edge on the video but not the departure from the runway.
This type of windy weather is typical of European flying weather. Some more videos on youtube show that planes are always dealing with cross wind landings some more successsfully than others.
P.S. That looked like a departure from the runway, not an overshoot.
Yep, looks like he over steered or something after touchdown and rolled off into the grass. Hate to see how many firetrucks they’d roll if it was an actual crash.
As a private pilot, I thought it was a great landing.
That was one hellava crosswind he was bucking and he crabbed into it just right.
From what I could see, only one wheel went off the runway.
As they say, “a good landing is any landing you can walk away from”.
1) Doesn’t look like an overshoot to me.
2) Looks like it might be a taxiway accident.
3) Careful editing to be misleading
Well, looked on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBkAnda7Fv0
There, it is titled “Small Planet Airbus runs off taxiway “
So, the conclusion is clear - Fox lied.
#+*%+*%€£%¥ !!! I go to the video and get a Joe Straus campaign ad! And the thing froze up my screen at the end!
For you non-Texans Straus is our super-Rino never met a Democrat he didn’t like Speaker of the House.
It would be a good thing everywhere if airports would widen and lengthen runways and taxiways where feasible but they are not going to spend the money for that.
Airliners now sure have ugly paint schemes.
Any landing you can walk away from.....................
I had the Straus video too but then it played.
That pilot should have gone around....it was fortunate that he didn’t hurt anyone or badly damage the aircraft. He gave up on any attempt to align the fuselage with the runway and when he did touch down the lurch, as the airplane changed from the way the nose was pointing to the direction the aircraft was moving, had to scare the hell out of all aboard. It is, in no way, a “taxi accident.” I wonder what the “Max demonstrated crosswind speed” is in the limitations section of the aircraft manual. No matter what that may be, it surely was beyond the capabilities of the pilot. That, my friend, is the clear conclusion.
If you look at the aircraft when the emergency vehicles arrive, you’ll notice that the surface from which it departed has a yellow, solid centerline painted on it (taxiway marking). The runway marking would be white, broken lines and you would also be able to see the touchdown markings (for landing in the opposite direction) behind the aircraft if it overshot the end.
I can tell you haven’t watched many of the Youtube crosswind landing videos.
Youtube sensationalizes bad landings, not many good ones.
PS. Someone mentioned Kai Tek in Hong Kong. I have landed to the southeast there, countless times, with the DC-10 and the 747-400. An interesting approach with sometimes tricky winds.
You’re right. I didn’t even notice he was on the taxiway. I was just locked on that he was nowhere near an overrun.
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