Kinda wonder why they didn’t choose an alternate airport. Big downside risk.
Lots of “sail” area on an A380.
Is there a you tube link that does not require accepting their terms and conditions?
In a word, “Daaaaaaaaaaaang!”
Perfect.
Piece o’ cake!
Thing I learned while piloting small planes, gliders and helicopters is you never fly beyond your skill level, but you have to take some chances to improve your skill level.
I’d been flying gliders and rotary wing aircraft for about ten years when I finally got my single engine plane VFR rating.
Started out in the AM w/ good weather forecast, light-variable winds, 6-10mph, but took a little longer on the test for some sight-seeing and precision flying, on the way back the winds had kicked up to 12-20 w/ gusts upward of 22mph.
No choice but to land. I’d crabbed landings before, but preferred cross-control side-slip landings from my years of flying gliders, and managed to get the C152 landed and my ticket signed off no problem.
But that, THAT is a work of skill, precision, art and knowing your limitations par excellence.
Very possible early readings/reports/advisories, fuel limitations, range, flight hours, availability of other runways all conspired to have those guys land at the margins of the performance envelope of the plane and their skillset, maybe not.
Fly like you train.
Awesome, thanks for sharing.
I did a landing like that once in a Cessna 152 2 seater.
Exhilarating... can’t imagine doing it in that beast of a jet though!
They call that crabbing. Happens a lot in Alaska.
When I was a kid we landed at OHare like that in a heavy thunderstorm. Pilot flipped it around just before we landed. Never forget it.
I heard my mom screaming all the way from the back of the plane :)
Freaky. It looked like the plane was hovering over a fixed point.
The wing shape on that plane is beautiful and birdlike.
The pilot made three unsuccessful attempts, but on the fourth try manged to SLAM the plane onto that pathetic excuse for a runway... Each attempt, the pilot would have us literally laying on our sides, relative to the runway, as he tried to get us down...
In boarding the plane in Tuscon, had a bad feeling when they lined us up and rejected any overweight passengers, and, as it turned out, also left some of our baggage behind...
The 16 of us on that plane exited in about 10-seconds when that door opened...
If I can, I'll take the bus - or drive.
I’d say well done!
I’m betting ‘Autoland’ was used.
Wondering what the planes forward knot speed is at touchdown, that sucker looks like it is floating. This is an United Arab Emirates airline. Wondering who this pilot is, and his background?
That was impressive. I remember watching a TV series on the History Channel about a privately owned Alaska airline that shuttled people around in the outer parts of the country. I was in awe when I watched one of their pilots landing in heavy winds. He had to approach the runway sideways in order to keep control of the plane. I never liked flying, and will hopefully have no reason to ever fly again, but I have to take my hat off to the pilots who handle these big planes, and can land safely when the weather isn’t being cooperative.