Posted on 03/03/2008 8:50:58 AM PST by Scythian
These people are lucky to be alive !!!!!
Video
Sold her in 2000. Both kids have degrees now and promising careers.
Did you just cut away?
I was on a flight once when something like that happened. We were going along, nice smooth flight, clear skies, when suddenly the plane dropped like a rock. Scary.
It was a Delta flight between Atlanta and Dallas, on one of those really big jets. I'm not an airplane person, but I remember it was one of the jets with five seats across in the middle and three on each side.
yup, 50’ to the lake below.
Fun factor = 100,000
Practical Factor = 1
She fulfilled a dream, (o build my own), and I miss her.
I don’t think, from watching the video, that it was cross wind.
Looks like gusts to me.
Or dislexia - having a hypoxia-dislexia attack in an xwind can be lethal.
I'll give the pilot partial credit. Attempting the landing under those conditions was a seriously bad call. But he gets points for the recovery.
The only possibilities I can think of that would excuse the pilot's attempt to land would be that he was misinformed about wind conditions on the ground or that he was critically low on fuel.
The county airport where I kept N106DF had a sky diving school and was next to a lake. One of the instructors seemed to enjoy doing cut aways to freak folks out.
I always had my head on swivel when in the pattern on sky diving days.
Yeah, Thought his right wing was too high also. That down the runway shot though shows that the steady wind was not all that bad. I have seen some videos of much worse. I assume it is the same video I saw. This is like the third time this has been posted.
Recovery was a miracle. Glad they pulled it off.
There was certainly a crosswind but I think a gust got him. The crab angle does not account for how fast that than slid left.
I’m glad the outcome was good.
All these links go to the same video - why’d you give so many? One would have been enough. Silly!
I may buy or build again. Right now I have borrow for fuel access to a J3 Cub, a Cessna 170, a couple of 172’s, all owned by friends. I rent a 172 from an FBO at my old airport.
Get your certificate and the sooner the better.
After seeing that video, I have to wonder if the original video in this thread was an actual passenger flight or a test/demo flight. The shot doesn’t get close enough to see if the plane has Boeing markings or an airline’s livery.
Drop all the other hobbies! No excuses. Join the exclusive club of pilots. Less than 1% of the world population hold a certificate.
I landed at Kai Tek several times on #13..scariest one was I was coming in on a Korean Air 757, late, in a driving wind/rain/thunderstorm..bouncin all over the freakin place. When the pilot did his right turn to head to the runway, we were so low I KNEW, I KNEW the wing was going to clip a building..but he straightened it out and put it down..if the ground outside the terminal (and inside for that matter) wasn’t so damn dirty, I’d have kissed it..
This was an old Paracommander round chute with capewells and a chest mounted reserve...didn’t want to get my square piggyback rig wet.
Crash-1? (MC-1 parachute, 1 ea.)
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