Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Hairy, bouncy landing


At the beginning of the month I posted a video of a hairy cross-wind landing in England.

Now comes this one, in slow-motion.

All I can say is, if I'd been on that plane, a landing like this would instantly have cured any problems I might have had with constipation! Wow!





They say that "any landing you can walk away from is a good landing". Methinks this video is about as close to the ragged edge of that saying as I want to get!

Peter

7 comments:

  1. Don't have that kind of problem on trains. Then, trains only go where they want to go. Not where I want to go.

    My rule: If distance less than 500 miles, drive.

    If more than 500 miles, don't go.

    gnholb

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  2. That, at the very least, would make me feel deeply unhappy about ever flying again.....

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  3. That was not so much a landing as a controled crash,just reminded me as to why i dont fly.

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  4. We landed like that once in a little puddle jumper from Cairo to Luxor. I saw God...and Anubis, Horus, Isis, Thoth, Bastet, etc. etc...

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  5. You might want to take a look at this landing of an Airbus A320 in Hamburg during this weekend's storm "Emma".
    http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=b_e_k-QuG8Y

    According to news reports, "only" a winglet was damaged. The pilot described the landing attempt as "challenging", the actual landing some minutes later as "uneventful".

    :)

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  6. 1. Why does a BAe-146 have 4 engines? Because 6 won't fit.
    2. If you can use the passengers again, good; if you can use the airplane again, and it doesn't take full power to taxi, great!

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