The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!
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
Don't have that kind of problem on trains. Then, trains only go where they want to go. Not where I want to go.
ReplyDeleteMy rule: If distance less than 500 miles, drive.
If more than 500 miles, don't go.
gnholb
Holy bejeezus!
ReplyDeleteThat, at the very least, would make me feel deeply unhappy about ever flying again.....
ReplyDeleteThat was not so much a landing as a controled crash,just reminded me as to why i dont fly.
ReplyDeleteWe landed like that once in a little puddle jumper from Cairo to Luxor. I saw God...and Anubis, Horus, Isis, Thoth, Bastet, etc. etc...
ReplyDeleteYou might want to take a look at this landing of an Airbus A320 in Hamburg during this weekend's storm "Emma".
ReplyDeletehttp://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".
:)
1. Why does a BAe-146 have 4 engines? Because 6 won't fit.
ReplyDelete2. 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!