Intense Lufthansa A320 Landing at HAM!

[Iberia A340-600]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ddb_1204404185

Thread with a discussion about the wild landing:

http://www.airliners.net/discussions/ge ... n/3868748/

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[h2opunk1822]

OMG.. now thats a heavy xwind landing well attempt at landing neway

[LGA777]

Gordon, thanks a lot for posting that amazing video, as I missed the a.net thread. A lot of times the term nearly crashed is a huge egageration with things like this but that came pretty close.

If anyone made it this far with out actually watching the video, you really need to watch it, absolutley INCREDIBLE !

Cheers

LGA777

[flyboy 28]

Holy crow! I wonder if the pilot will get in trouble for not deciding to go around sooner.

Here's the pic of it (not mine)

[PhilDernerJr]

My God that's crazy. I've never seen any like that before. The wingtip actually hit?! Wow. Lucky they walked away.

Anyone know if they diverted after that or tried again?

[flyboy 28]

They wound up circling around and landing on a different runway. Apparently Hurricane Emma had been going through Germany at the time, causing the high winds. Here's some more pictures.

http://www.hamburg-airport-friends-foru ... 07#pid2607

And here's some more damage on JP
http://jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=6186192

[wunaladreamin]

Jesus Christ thats nasty!

[hiss srq]

That is one nasty rub. On xmas 2005 in Sarasota an AirTran 717 dug one in on landing in a pretty bad storm. Tore the landing light off the wingtip and forced replacement of the tim in Sarasota.

[stuart schechter]

WOW!! Lucky to be alive. That was some serious wingtip and then the slide to the left off the runway. Crazy!

[cancidas]

WOW!! Lucky to be alive.

i wouldn't go that far. the situation was bad from the start because of the low-level wind shear/crosswind. the approach was ok until the pilot flared, the wind gusted and caught the airplane under the right wing and that's what caused the left tip to scrape. right the decision on his part to hit the TOGA! good pilotage IMO.

[Matt Molnar]

I guess they're not used to hurricane conditions in Germany. Someone get Al Gore on the phone!

[mirrodie]

that is an amazing wingtip strike :shock: :shock:

[T-Bird76]

My god...I can't imagine the reaction of the people on that plane...

[mirrodie]

I'll bet there were many a soiled underpants on the flight. Turbulences and rocking about is once thing that gets passengers nervous. But the sound of grinding metal......I would probably would have lost it a bit.

In fact, I think most of us here, having been on a flight or two, might have really thought "this might be it."

[Delta777LR]

Very scary situation just seeing that the wing had touched the ground breaking the bottom winglet but at least no one was hurt...