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Scary Emirates 777 Aborted Crosswind Landing
Aborted from Birmingham England, 777-300ER. Flight #039, check out the flight path on FlightAware. (www.youtube.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
that shows how good the pilot is as he/she did a great job on handling the situation
36 knt component for landing...40 for takeoff? w/o Safety breach. or has this been discussed to death...can't find here.
Somebody questioned it down here. If it wasn't at that it was close. LOL
Very poor piloting skills! The appropriate amount of right rudder would have made this approach (and landing) a nom-event.
Were you there Jack?
Video speaks a thousand words! Little or no attempt to align. This event, along with the crash of Asiana 214 and Air France 447 is clear evidence that basic piloting skills are generally not what they should be.
Well, believe as you will as neither one of us were there, but he was trying to land ahead of a storm and didn't make it. Same results at Heathrow and wound up going into Gatwick no problem, so idk. Looked to me like he was lined and a gust got him close in so he spooled up and went again.
The following paragraph was included a press release about this incident: "Although the Boeing 777 landing Birmingham story is worth gasping over, other planes encountered the same crosswinds that day and managed to set down on the tarmac without incident."
I maintain that any pilot with a modicum skill in x-wind landings should have been able to safely execute this approach and landing.
I maintain that any pilot with a modicum skill in x-wind landings should have been able to safely execute this approach and landing.
To my eye the plane seemed to have drifted too far left into the wind. I don't see the plane lined up with the centerline at all.
You are correct in what you see there but the video doesn't start that far back. For whatever reason, there was a drift and hence the go around or diversion. I don't know if this was his 1st or 2nd attempt but according to another article here he went on to Heathrow with the same results and finally went into Gatwick with no problems. I really think that had his piloting skills not been up to par, the results would have been different. I really couldn't tell how much CRAB he had cranked in there but it was a bunch, and really more than normal.
Yes, that pilot had the plane crabbing cranked all the way up. Had the pilot reduced the crabbing slowly over the last portion of flight, the plane would've lined up fairly nicely.
I can't tell you how qualified the pilot is or not. What we can see and what has been reported is that the pilot tried more than one crosswind landing (possibly at more than one airport) and wasn't able to land until getting to an airport that unlike Birmingham has runways that line up better with the prevailing seasonal winds. Although, pilots who want to practice their crosswind landings should pick up flights into BHX.
But, either the pilot was having a particularly bad day (wind wise) or just isn't too proficient in crosswind landings and needs more practice. In this case, I'd recommend the simulator first before trying again with passengers in the back.
I can't tell you how qualified the pilot is or not. What we can see and what has been reported is that the pilot tried more than one crosswind landing (possibly at more than one airport) and wasn't able to land until getting to an airport that unlike Birmingham has runways that line up better with the prevailing seasonal winds. Although, pilots who want to practice their crosswind landings should pick up flights into BHX.
But, either the pilot was having a particularly bad day (wind wise) or just isn't too proficient in crosswind landings and needs more practice. In this case, I'd recommend the simulator first before trying again with passengers in the back.
Well, either way he aborted that landing. Locals said he was trying to land ahead of a storm front and apparently didn't make it. They said he went into Gatwick, where it had not yet arrived, which takes us back to your comment so idk.