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Horrifically Scary Landing in High Winds (almost landing that is)
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Posted on 03/03/2008 8:50:58 AM PST by Scythian

These people are lucky to be alive !!!!!

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TOPICS: Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: landing; plane; winds
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To: patton

Sold her in 2000. Both kids have degrees now and promising careers.


101 posted on 03/03/2008 10:27:14 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running.)
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To: gorush

Did you just cut away?


102 posted on 03/03/2008 10:29:14 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running.)
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To: SuziQ
I was telling one of my older brothers about this. Gerry used to be a pilot, and he recounted having been through one when he was flying for a commercial airline. Thankfully, they were not near the ground at the time, but he said that he was flying along, and suddenly the plane just dropped about 600 feet. They were trying everything to get the plane back up, with no success, then suddenly he said it was like you were in an elevator going right up again. He's thankful that never happened to him on takeoff or landing.

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.

103 posted on 03/03/2008 10:29:55 AM PST by susannah59
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To: Conspiracy Guy

yup, 50’ to the lake below.


104 posted on 03/03/2008 10:30:54 AM PST by gorush (Exterminate the Moops!)
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To: TalonDJ

Fun factor = 100,000
Practical Factor = 1

She fulfilled a dream, (o build my own), and I miss her.


105 posted on 03/03/2008 10:31:08 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running.)
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To: nj_pilot

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.


106 posted on 03/03/2008 10:32:50 AM PST by patton (cuiquam in sua arte credendum)
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To: Conspiracy Guy
The pilot was really hosed this up. Any pilot watching the video will tell you that God spared this flight.

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.

107 posted on 03/03/2008 10:34:45 AM PST by ReignOfError
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To: gorush

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.


108 posted on 03/03/2008 10:34:59 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running.)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

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.


109 posted on 03/03/2008 10:35:11 AM PST by TalonDJ
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To: ReignOfError

Recovery was a miracle. Glad they pulled it off.


110 posted on 03/03/2008 10:36:49 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running.)
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To: patton

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.


111 posted on 03/03/2008 10:37:40 AM PST by TalonDJ
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To: TalonDJ

I’m glad the outcome was good.


112 posted on 03/03/2008 10:37:41 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running.)
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To: Conspiracy Guy
Someday I would love to build one. Dad is working on his third.
I never seem to find the time and money to finish getting my license though :P Too many hobbies and all of them cheaper.
113 posted on 03/03/2008 10:39:22 AM PST by TalonDJ
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

All these links go to the same video - why’d you give so many? One would have been enough. Silly!


114 posted on 03/03/2008 10:42:20 AM PST by jackibutterfly
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To: TalonDJ

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.


115 posted on 03/03/2008 10:48:00 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

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.


116 posted on 03/03/2008 10:49:40 AM PST by ReignOfError
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To: TalonDJ

Drop all the other hobbies! No excuses. Join the exclusive club of pilots. Less than 1% of the world population hold a certificate.


117 posted on 03/03/2008 10:50:11 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running.)
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To: Moose4

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..


118 posted on 03/03/2008 10:50:12 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (If the left doesn't want me to say Barack HUSSEIN Obama, I WON'T say HUSSEIN..I promise,)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

This was an old Paracommander round chute with capewells and a chest mounted reserve...didn’t want to get my square piggyback rig wet.


119 posted on 03/03/2008 10:52:40 AM PST by gorush (Exterminate the Moops!)
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To: gorush

Crash-1? (MC-1 parachute, 1 ea.)


120 posted on 03/03/2008 10:55:13 AM PST by patton (cuiquam in sua arte credendum)
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