One of the scariest plane landing videos you may ever see
Posted: February 11, 2009
Strong winds buffering Bilbao, Spain Feburary 9 didn’t make for great landing conditions, but that didn’t stop the pilot of one plane.
Footage captured and shown on Spanish television shows a plane coming into land at Bilbao Airport, and miraculously not crashing despite the plane going sideways in the wind.
I don’t speak Spanish, so I don’t know what the audio is saying (such as the name of the airline so I can make sure I never use it) but the footage speaks for itself.
As commenters rightfully point out on YouTube, this should have been a go-around, and the pilot isn’t a hero for pulling it off, he’s a danger for evening attempting it.
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Feb 11, 2009
That's a pretty normal looking crabbed landing. Apart from the wobble at the end (which wasn't anything like as bad as one in – I think – Germany last year where the wing actually touched the ground!), it looked pretty good. YouTube is absolutely stuffed full of crabbed landing videos. If an airport only has a single runway and you've got crosswinds, it's the only way you're going to land.
Also – are you really suggesting it is sensible to take YouTube comments seriously?
Some pilots chatting about crabbed landings here:
http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/tech_o…
And the Wikipedia is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosswind_landing
Feb 11, 2009
Wrote a longish comment on this which seems to have been eaten. Never mind.
Either way. Nothing wrong with that landing. Pilots do crabbed landings all the time.
Feb 12, 2009
Couple more of such videos and I might never see an airport again
Feb 12, 2009
We came with the Lufthansa plane just minutes before this one. They attempted two landings, but gave up and took us to Barcelona instead. 8 hours on a bus back to Bilbao, but better than risking a crash, winds were 150 km/h… even the bus was shaking a lot from the winds as we came closer to Bilbao!
Feb 13, 2009
Although the pilot landed the plane, this was foolish and dangerous. No, it shouldn't have been a go-around as one comment suggests, no 'pilots do crabbed landings all the time' is wrong as well. the cross wind factor is what counts, exceed it at your own peril and those of others. I would have used my reserve and tried for another airport/runway, I don't put my passengers at risk just to prove I can land a plane.