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Plane battling winds at Heathrow nearly topples over
As storms buffet the UK, footage has emerged of a pilot pulling off a particularly challenging landing -- but not before the plane appeared to nearly topple over and scrape its tail on the runway. British Airways flight 1307 traveled from Aberdeen to London on Monday -- but the 80-minute flight had a bumpy ride at the end. Coming in to land at Heathrow, the plane -- an Airbus A321neo -- was visibly buffeted by winds, before touching down on one wheel, bouncing up and down again, tipping… (www.msn.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I am no pilot, but that was some great piloting. 4-5 bounces, they say, Nope, we are leaving and trying again. Bravo, indeed!
A third bounce is almost always damaging and leads to loss-of-control. On the second bounce you've got to decide if you've got it or not. There's no penalty in going around.
Decent video of the aborted landing at BBC. https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-60216196
Been on Alaska MD-88 into ONT during a Santa Ana. Captain told us it’ll get bumpy over the Cajon Pass. A big understatement. We came around to line up from the west (first clue), started descending over Pomona, over the threshold of the runway8L, and the captain can’t get the plane on the ground. I was sitting right in front of the engines so I can hear the engines throttling, we’re tipping left and right, and the captain aborts the landing. Now he has to reconfigure and get us airborne again. I never heard a Mad Dog’s engines rev that high. It was a roller coaster getting altitude again. Overhead storage compartments were flung open, crap rolling down the aisles, and people screaming. We ended up diverting to LAX. ONT closed for the evening.
After the flight, I hung back to talk to the captain. I asked him how his knuckles were doing. He held them up and said “Still white”. He said they were well below max landing speed in a headwind but suddenly winds gusted to 90mph. Obviously that’s why everything was diverted to LAX after that. Glad we had what appeared to be a senior captain flying us that night.
After the flight, I hung back to talk to the captain. I asked him how his knuckles were doing. He held them up and said “Still white”. He said they were well below max landing speed in a headwind but suddenly winds gusted to 90mph. Obviously that’s why everything was diverted to LAX after that. Glad we had what appeared to be a senior captain flying us that night.
Almost became a porpoise. The only technique the PIC missed was to 'push' when going around to avoid the tail strike. Which is not a natural reaction when the last bounce was nose down and you are trying to escape. If you don't push a tail strike or departure stall can occur.
So in the video at 0:57 you can see that there's weight-on-wheels but the spoilers didn't deploy. In sketchy conditions is this the norm (presumably to help with a potential TOGA)?
Airbus safely and everybody walked off the aircraft intact. This is not olympic gymnastic competition where style and flawless execution of preprogramed moves gets high scores. THis first landing changed by the instant with forces not necessariy experienced by this crew or many other crews. Bravo for the flight crew upfront. Hope that was the last flight for this crew that day. They need to sit at the bar and have some drinks, with pride...