TOP TEN Crosswind and Scary Aircraft Landings

[the actor]

some of these had me clinching my fists just watching the video's, I can just imagine being in one of these...

Top Ten Crosswind Airline Landings

 

[wolfman]

I was on a plane (a 727/737 I think) that made a landing like that in a storm once in Ukraine. I remember sitting in an isle seat and looking directly forward in the direction that the plane was traveling and I could see forward through the side windows on the plane. It was much like the 3rd or 4th ones on that link. After I was on the ground we heard that the storm uprooted quite a few large trees around town. In he US the pilot usually flys to an alternate area if they can avoid wind like that. Scary stuff.

 

[indieMD]

that approach to the old Hong Kong airport (Korean airlines 1:40 to 2:00) was nuts...

 

[A. BETTIK]

Almost nothing can compare to that...

If you want to trick somebody for April Fools, send them this link. An airplane loses a wing during flight but manages to land. The pilot is seen popping the cockpit lid at the end.

 

[Longhorny630]

that april fools day video is terrible. the photoshop job is brutal on the landing.


that first pilot was even worse. granted he may have been in a crosswind, but c'mon, he pulls the nose up way before the ground and almost stalls, then proceeds to tilt the wings and overcompensate like crazy.

 

[Rayug]

I watched a B-52 do this once...freaked me out, the landing gear is steerable so they can be lined up with the runway but the plane can be sideways. (crab landing)

 

[Lat22]

Number 1 for me was our Cherokee Six landing at Walker Municipal Airport in Minnesota circa 1983. The most scared I've ever been.

 

[ImissWallyPryor]

I was golfing at Morris Williams 25+ years ago on a very, very windy day. We got to one hole that had a view of one of the Robert Mueller Airport runways, and we about freaked out when we saw one of the big jets make a landing much like the one at the :45 mark. I thought for sure it was going to miss the runway and crash. We saw a couple of smaller jets make similar landings, but the big jet made the most spectacular impression.

 

[wherzwaldo]

The last two on that video were