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Crazy Airbus landing
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Crazy Airbus landing


Feb 17, 2020, 4:24 PM

https://www.richmond.com/news/trending/watch-pilot-lands-world-s-largest-passenger-plane-sideways-during/article_e0e4214f-fca7-50d4-ae9e-982232309d22.html
Watch: Pilot lands world's largest passenger plane sideways during massive storm in London
An Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger plane, was forced to make a spectacular “crab” landing this weekend amid fiercely strong winds at London’s Heathrow Airport. The name is derived
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Balls freely swung on that one.


Feb 17, 2020, 4:46 PM

Also shows the problem with bigger and bigger planes. That thing has a TON of side surface space to catch a crosswind. Would have been way easier to land a normal sized plane.

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These types of landings are a lot more routine than you'd


Feb 17, 2020, 5:03 PM

think. Happen quite a bit and they make for spectacular footage but on one is ever really at risk.

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I'm guessing they're way less scary for the pilot than


Feb 17, 2020, 5:53 PM

observers. Planes almost never land in 0mph wind, and a 7mph crosswind requires the ability of the pilot to measurably adjust, even if it's not really visible to a guy with a cell phone. They probably do it just about every time they land.

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I still love videos like this and didn't mean to sound


Feb 17, 2020, 6:09 PM

like hipster "big whoop" doooshbag, but a buddy of mine who flew C-130's and now flies for Southwest says they make adjustments like this all the time when I was asking him about a similar video. Who knew.

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I love the vid too. I think it's different for a........


Feb 17, 2020, 6:15 PM

pilot.

I've flown since I was a youngster and love it. Kelli and I landed once in PA in a puddle jumper sideways. People throwing up etc. Our friend who picked us up said we both looked like Casper.

We both were like where's the nearest bar!

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It's not so much a landing, but a "controlled crash"***


Feb 19, 2020, 9:46 AM [ in reply to I still love videos like this and didn't mean to sound ]



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Flew into the Flores, Guatemala international airport on a


Feb 17, 2020, 7:12 PM [ in reply to I'm guessing they're way less scary for the pilot than ]

flight from Belize City. Pilots were very local. Totally open airplane/cockpit, small prop plane with 8 passengers. As we started to land I noticed we were sideways to the runway, and I feared the pilots were drunk. Just as I clutch my seat bracing for a certain death on a runway in BFE, Guatemala, the plane suddenly turns straight JUST as the wheels hit.

I appreciate those landings I don't care how "normal" or "safe" they are.

This place. They've upgraded. This was 28 years ago.

https://goo.gl/maps/ta5uLL228bewbUDN6


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The first time I flew into Key West airport


Feb 19, 2020, 9:48 AM

It looked like a hut with wooden floors. I'd imagine by this point they store spare engines or something in that building now.

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Re: Crazy Airbus landing


Feb 18, 2020, 9:50 PM
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Las Delicias Honduras, Feb 1992...Flew low level from San Pedro Sula thru the mountains. Guys were puking in their kevlar helmets, I was laughing my #### off, lol. Fun times

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