Crazy cross wind landings....

[Carnos Jax]

The first one is just nuts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5e7bos0OQc

[wave rider]

Bravo to all!

[Kraniac]

They look like marionettes.


many prudent bailouts..couple of those are nuts..

[Paul F.]

Couple brown shorts landings there!
I’d be with the guys who waved off...

How’s that saying go? “Any landing you can walk away from is a good one. Any landing where you can use the airplane again is a GREAT one.”
Those are all great landings!

[mrbigstuff]

Ok, no. Nope. Nope. Nope.

[Ombligo]

The cockpit voice recordings are rated for Mature Audiences Only.

[cbelt3]

Is there actually a certified safe level for crosswind landings ? That’s nuts !

[Kraniac]

cbelt3 wrote:
Is there actually a certified safe level for crosswind landings ? That’s nuts !

wondering same thing,,,and also wondering where those guys who bailed were headed after the bailout.
Pictured them on the public address system ordering the drink carts to be stocked and in the aisles and that smoking would allowed..and to crank up some AC/DC until we get the wheels down.

I was in a small, sort of beater private plane with a friend of mine (the owner pilot)..Midway airport in Chicago..We took off with a very heavy crosswind..and when the wheels left the ground we were swept to the right SO damn fast, hard and far..I didnt know it but my friend was not very experienced..but he was cool and seemed to handle it properly...I was not, i was more scared than i've ever been..and ever will be..there was really nothing we could have done..the wind owned this little 2 seater. I've never been in a plane that small since..never will again..way too many realizations that day.

[Thrift Store Scott]

Yeah, seeing those Dash-8s (possibly ATRs?) get tossed around like that is nuts, especially considering how spindly their landing gear looks, then seeing the 787 and A380 at the end grease right down like it's nothing.

[Buzz]

A few years ago, I was driving home and was near LAX on a road that had a clear view of the runways, when I got a phone call. So I pulled over to talk, and watched as a couple of planes landed on a very blustery day. The planes were having a real rough go of it, and one heavy started crabbing extra-badly as it neared touch down, and I yelled, "Pull up, pull up, pull up!!!", and you could see the jet wash increase. The plane's left wheels bounced, and then the plane lurched to the right, and stuff from the right side of the plane bounced as the plane finally pulled up while it was still crabbing.

When I got home and told stewardess wife, she downplayed the incident... until it made the news. In my description, I suggested that all passengers probably puked and/or soiled their pants. Stewardess still wasn't impressed, as she'd been on flights w/ lots of turbulence in the early days before vectoring around weather became routine, and there was lots of vomiting. The TV news showed the plane from a different angle than I saw, and clarified that it (thankfully) was a cargo plane, and that had it been a passenger plane, it wouldn't have been given clearance to land. When Mrs. Buzz saw the TV news, she relented and said that it wouldn't have been fun to have been working that flight.

Those smaller planes in the video brought the LAX incident roaring back. It just seems that whoever is in charge of letting planes take off and land, ought to have to go for a ride in some of the planes that they let land and take off.
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