Cross winds. My plane was landing at Portland Intl. once and the plane was bouncing up and down and shearing from left to right so bad that I thought we were going to crash. The stewardesses didn’t seem to think it was any big deal, though.
Just a silly observation but, what’s an Emirates plane doing in Alabama?
Looks like a normal cross wind landing to me. Did a bunch of them in a Cessna 152 out of Hooks Airport in Spring, TX. It’s wild your first time and feels totally unnatural but definitely nothing unusual.
That article is pure tabloid journalism.
We did nearly the same angle landing in Spokane, WA a few years ago. We came in at an angle and we watched out the window wondering what the pilot would do. A very smooth landing which we gave him great marks for!!
When we got off the plane we could hardly walk in the wind ourselves.
BUFF could have handled that with those steerable landing gear.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LziQDgQ7lvU
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That landing would have been a cake walk for a B-52 pilot. Seems every picture of them landing, the plane is sideways.
Youtube is filled with hundreds of videos of crosswind landings. The article said the plane made three aborted attempts and then diverted to another airport. I wonder if their pilots are any better than Asiana’s?
Took off from Newark, NJ one time. as a big storm was approaching. You could see small light planes that had tipped over, as we approached the take off area. Kinda scary to see that. Take-off was so turbulent , that I stopped looking over the seat back, as everyone’s head was jiggling all over. Really rough take-off. We were told that we were the last plane allowed to take-off. Just above the clouds, all was calm. Memorable experience.
There are two ways to do a crosswind landing, a side slip and a crab. That was the crab method, the slip method is much better in my opinion. The axis of the plane stays in line with the runway and you cross control the ailerons and the rudder. It is more work and takes a constant corrections on final but to me is much better. The crab takes no effort to set up until the end when you have to do 6 things all at once to straighten the aircraft so you don’t rip the landing gear off.