Wild Crosswind Video of a FedEx MD-11 & AF Cargo in Narita!

Check out this landing!!

FedEx MD-11
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Air France Cargo Boeing 747-400ERF (Hard landing)
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Wow. GREAT finds, Sergio.

I think the FedEx was receiving a harder crosswind, hats off to them for landing it as nice as they did. It's sad to watch, thinking about the FeEx crash at NRT not long ago that killed the pilots in some rough wind.

The AF one, I was surprised they didn't scrape engines 3 or 4. Looked like he came down hard on the nosegear and leaned hard on the right.

It seems that most of the spoilers on the left wing didn't deploy on touchdown on the AF 747.

great find Sergio! i don't know why the spoilers wouldn't deploy on landing... but good think it was a cargo plane, or some passengers would be very bothered and frightened.

Great finds! Some of the other videos are pretty hair- raising as well...

For Air France, looks as though the flying pilot input full right wing down aileron after touchdown, which may have also commanded full roll control spoiler deflection on that side as well. I'm not sure if the roll control function is enabled with weight on wheels, but the captain may have de- selected auto ground spoilers to allow for greater roll authority in those winds...

it appears the AF 747 was holding full or nearly full right aileron during the landing roll. That would be why the spoilers didnt come up on the left side until the very end of the video when they were brought back to neutral. That may have also been why they nearly had a dual engine strike.

If you pause the video right at maingear touchdown, you'll see there is quite a bit of right wing down aileron and it's held thru most of the rollout. They also got the nose down elevator pretty agressively right at touchdown.

Any insight into why they would do that so hard after already being on the ground?

It's "insurance" to prevent the nose coming back up with a good gust of wind during rollout, Phil... Ordinarily the drivers will hold some back pressure after touchdown to ease the nose down, but in those conditions the flying pilot elected to get the jet down and stuck as rapidly as possible. Pretty wild approach, for sure!