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To: Conspiracy Guy

A friend of mine is an airline pilot and tells me that those crosswind landings are an instictive thing but only a fool or a pilot without options will attempt a landing in a heavy crosswind like that.


34 posted on 03/03/2008 9:11:30 AM PST by cripplecreek (Voting CONSERVATIVE in memory of 5 children killed by illegals 2/17/08 and 2/19/ 08)
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To: cripplecreek

He was too far upwind. He realized that. Then he turned left to regain the centerline,(dumb move, should have initiated go around then). Wind got under his upwind wing and almost put the downwind wingtip into the ground then he overcorrected to the right and the wind pushed down on his upwind wing almost striking the ground with the upwind wingtip. He’s rear stall and mushed his way back into the air only because there was enough power to be added.

I hate to be an armchair quarterback but pilot error almost ended some lives.


41 posted on 03/03/2008 9:20:29 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running.)
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