crosswind and scary aircraft landings/attempts

[RD]

last one will make your butt pucker, you airedales will find this amusing i guess.. me? scared the heck out of me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X_7Xt2ga-s&feature=related

[BB1]

Oh I do that every day getting out of bed. 

[mauve66]

http://airlineworld.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/lufthansa-plane-landing-in-strong-crosswind/

this video shows the approach and how far out of shape the plane was WAY before it got to the runway

[bull]

http://airlineworld.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/lufthansa-plane-landing-in-strong-crosswind/

this video shows the approach and how far out of shape the plane was WAY before it got to the runway

They call it a wing strike but it looked to me like a double wing strike in the video. Looks like it hit the left wing tip and then the right wing hit even harder as they pulled back up.

[Charger_Fan]

Some of those are pretty friggin' high on the pucker scale.
In that 2nd link, did you watch the 'bumpy landing' one?  Wow.

[BigBlockSam]

man, that's some scary stuff. i've flown a lot of times  but since 911 i've lost my thrill for flying

[John_Kunkel]

Shucks, some of my calm wind landings look worse than those. 

[mikepmcs]

Been there done that more than a few times in the mighty orion.  That's SOP when landing at Lajes.
That last one was a little hairy for sure though.

I agree with John.  I landed at the College Park MD airfield one time in a Cessna 150 and it was the best landing I ever had.  One problem though.... it was a mistake and the wind dropped me about 50 feet in one second and I slammed the power and gained just enough to get the stall warning and bingo touched down softer than I ever had. Good thing I still wasn't at 100 feet.

[mauve66]

i've only had 1 scary one, landing at Kansas City in the dark in a thunderstorm, i had a window seat and as we went over the end of runway lights i could seegrass outside the window then a second later i saw grass outside the window but that grass was on the opposite side of the runway then suddenly we were over the runway again and landed with a thump.......... happened faster than i can type it, sorta wish there was a video of it but then again sort don't................

[tan top]

   yikes thats scary stuff 

[Back N Black]

I had a couple of bad experiences, all in a 8 month period .First one flying from Canada across the pond to Kosovo, about 6 hrs in the trip we experienced engine trouble and had to turn around and limp back to Canada. Finally made it across and a flight from Italy to Macedonia, hard landing hit an air pocket and slammed hard on the runway and almost over shot the runway. While i was over there i was in a bus accident going through the mountains in Bulgaria. So now i hate flying and riding on Greyhound buses.