Added: Jul 6, 2008
From: braathens75
Duration: 1:6
The Lufthansa flight LH44 from Munich experienced wingstrike while landing at Hamburg on 1 March 2008 during Emma storm. Nobody was injured; the plane landed using another runway.
Channel: Travel
Tags: airbus320 crash crosswind emma hamburg landing lufthansa storm
Rating: 4.82 (3604 ratings) Views: 2854832' favoriteCount='5062 Comments: 3766
MasterUltrax Says:
Jul 6, 2008 - dos ging beinah' in houseich liebe den dialekt :)
Retrobowler Says:
Jul 6, 2008 - pilots hate when people like those weird landing pilots always want to have succesful landing
JonathanDParshall Says:
Jul 6, 2008 - Things don't look good from the very beginning.I HATE crosswinds!
mobmoh1986 Says:
Jul 6, 2008 - close one
mreugene1027 Says:
Jul 6, 2008 - shut up you nazi douchebag...german plane, german airport, german pilot, i hate Germany!
07Marius06 Says:
Jul 6, 2008 - rofl and who do you hate most? i bet yourself!! poor little boy
PacificEdibleSeaweed Says:
Jul 6, 2008 - Enough Cybertrashing!Now onto the clip. The pilot should have aborted the landing at 100 feet. It was obvious from final approach that the pilot was fighting a strong cross wind, and stability was unlikely. The passengers and the Pilot were lucky. That was a very close call - this would have been one of the most gruesome videos ever.
fagsddas Says:
Jul 6, 2008 - Get a life, bastard. The only Nazi 'round here is you so shut up!
thatcadguy Says:
Jul 6, 2008 - El viento cruzado con rafagas. No hay nada que haga sudar la camisa de un piloto como esto.
MrFriend123 Says:
Jul 6, 2008 - The pilot should have stopped that plane - there's no way he should have taken off again. That said Ground control shouldn't have let him land in the first place.... guy had to come in sideways!Taking off again was a risky decision. But a lot of pilots would have killed everyone on board that day.If you're reading this and thinking "I wouldn't have done that", then you're the kind of pilot I want on ALL my flights.
cgrant26 Says:
Jul 6, 2008 - Um, what he did is called a "Go around" which happens when the pilot cannot safely stop the plane on a landing attempt. Trying to complete this landing attempt would have been suicide.
cgrant26 Says:
Jul 6, 2008 - Crosswind landing are SOP for airports that only have a single runway. Boeing has a good control system for this but Airbus crosswind landings require a great deal more control inputs which is why the vast majority of missed crosswind approach vids on here are Airbus and not Boeing.
henryandwater Says:
Jul 6, 2008 - SHUT UP MrFriend123!!! You obviously have no idea how much training and practice goes into flying aircraft, especially the bigger ones!I would be quite happy to fly with those pilots, they did decide a little late to go around, but at least they made that decesion.And also "Taking off again was a risky decision!" wtf he didn't even land!And nice to know about the Boeing systems, thanks. You learn something everyday.
korujaratm123 Says:
Jul 6, 2008 - esse é O piloto !!!!
Maxit666 Says:
Jul 6, 2008 - pro pilot.. just imba
derlaurenz Says:
Jul 6, 2008 - i really dont get you ... where's your problem? ever met a german pilot? Ever flew with a german airline? or even better: ever been to germany? no offense but you got some seroius issues to solve dude!
SirBilliumSir Says:
Jul 6, 2008 - wow
awhero89 Says:
Jul 6, 2008 - is it coz its to windy??
jkonkle Says:
Jul 6, 2008 - Yah, that or a missed-approach. Every airport has a dedicated flight path off the end of a runway. All planes in the area are kept out of the missed-approach airspace for events such as the one we saw. Looked like harsh crosswinds, lucky there wasn't a downburst/straight line winds - yikes! Awesome pilot - go Lufthansa!
tereoneonetwo Says:
Jul 6, 2008 - some airlines don't try to land in croswind's like that. =O
MrFriend123 Says:
Jul 6, 2008 - Who do you fly for?My bosses would call allowing my landing gear (plus a wing-tip!) to touch ground an attempted landing.Speaking from experience, I wouldn't have attempted that landing, regardless of HAM's arrogant ground control.I don't consider myself a good enough pilot to land a plane in those cross-winds... you misinterpreted my comment. What I was trying to say was: "bloody good work! A less experienced pilot would have killed everyone on board!"
suction Says:
Jul 6, 2008 - So the plane was going to Hamburg? For you outlandish guys who don't know, but Hamburg is full of crappy people who think they're special but really are just brutes from Lower-Saxony that act like hipsters. It got nothing on proper hip places like London or L.A.So, people who are either living there or going there for whatever reason probably would deserve whatever the weather had in store for them.Maybe another day
StartbahnWest Says:
Jul 6, 2008 - Hehe.What is your major mailfunction, my friend?
flylover91 Says:
Jul 6, 2008 - Shut up.. It was an answer to: dvs997 (2 weeks ago) "very experinced pilot. u can tell. a unexperinced pilot would have tried to put it down and cause alot more damage"..I did'nt say that she did'nt save the plane from crashing! Yes, she did a great job, and she had amazing reflex and jugdement.. But, you are'nt a experienced pilot when you are 24! That's what I really ment..
subrat37 Says:
Jul 6, 2008 - Actually most pilots are angry they are getting praised for that horrible landing..... You never take off after a wing strike! The pilot got lucky it landing in one pieace.