United Airlines B747 Go Around + Landing in San Francisco (SFO) 29.08.08

[ShalemariTV]

Wtf, put landing gear down instead of flaps?? You are dumb wow -_-

[hawk45653]

In thrust we trust!

[SunsetSideVet]

Wow Sydney is Awesome but I think San Francisco Bay Area is the most spectacular

[aviationchannel2010]

i think his was too high ne?

[istvanklein]

If you compare the two approaches it's quite clear that on the first attempt the plane was coming in too high. On the second attempt it was way lower.

[HamburgAirport]

jaja, die piloten von lufthansa fliegen halt alle sehr sicher und gut, wer hat noch die exelente landung gesehen, und danach der staub von den rädern?

[Adamd895]

Flaps create lift but also slow down the aircraft. That is why the speed brakes are deployed at landing to counteract the lift created by the flaps.

[MyPilot747]

flaps create lift and drag it just depends on how much u put down

[steverow50]

Excellent video..very enjoyable

[travelplus1]

yuck Ching food you can smell it from here and get sick from it.

[456flight]

your shuch a wanka and you have no freinds

[illinoisboyinchi]

had a similar experience but the circumstances were much more frightening. we were on a united boeing 777 at most 100 feet above the ground when the crew did a go around. turns out there was traffic on the runway

[MrSheen134]

was the cabin announcement made in Chinese?

[PilotUTA]

@MrSheen134 The flight did originate in Hong Kong per the description, so its normal.

[je14100]

tell that flight attendent to STFU!!

[Vorox144]

Pilot Says SHIT THIS ISNT SFO FUCK LAX

[mksoct1st09]

@wesselg2, I'm talking about real life actual flying. The runway 28L @ SFO is plenty long for a 747. It wouldn't be going 200+ kts on final since the airspeed restriction in a Class B Bravo airspace like SFO is no more than 200kts. Typical reason for a go around is mainly with traffic on the runway...

[mksoct1st09]

@ wesselg2, I have to agree with poskyflyer! Have you flown a plane solo before PIC ? Not some flight simulator game... I'm ta

[syafiqpilot]

I can see that the plane is too high for this landing...Good call from the pilot to go around because if the plane were to make a touchdown,i guess that it would have been crashed ...

[wesselg2]

The reson of this go around:

-The airplane had way to much speed, I think is was something like 200 knots (which should be like 165 knots with full flaps)

-It still was to high, and I think that the runway wasn't that long.

The following landing was terrible. First of all, it touched soft, and then it starts bouncing. :( Not that good for a plane.

[poskyflyer]

@wesselg2 no the reason of this go around just like most others... traffic on the runway

i love how people on youtube think they are fucking smart, when they have never taken any flight lessons or have any aviation expirience

[cheesemaster1000]

@wesselg2 ?? Landing speed is a lot less than 165 in a 747. + the pilot wouldn't attempt a landing on a runway that isn't long enough, besides all the runways at SFO are plenty long enough for a 747.

[gamlemann53]

Beutiful here from Norway!

[JakepwnsU8]

whoah this was on my bday :)

[cormacorp]

too high

[UAL012]

Flaps are always lowered in stages according to airspeed. The landing gear is lowered around 10 to 15 miles out from the runway. The go around was either because they were too high on final approach or there was traffic in the way, preventing a safe landing.

[jgdogg441]

looks like he went around due to being too high on the first pass

[rich0319726]

Been there, done that. Except we actually touched before taking off.

[clutchem]

Very nice landing!

[LiquidFrost]

Could have been a number of reasons he went around...Another aircraft could have been the "Hold Short" line....The controller didnt have his seperation.....Cant really tell from this video.

[1037pm]

Reason he went around was probably traffic on the runway that hadn't cleared yet.

I don't think it was because of landing gear or flaps or whatever else you guys said.

I think there is a small chance for wake turb. warning but I don't think they care so much with a 747 lol

[husto88]

Flaps dont create lift? You guys should spend les time wanking off  on this site making stupid comments & go & do a PPL ground course

[yoyoyoyoshua]

they reduce the drag created from the landing gear

[husto88]

@yoyoyoyoshua

WTF are you on?

[MusicLover11325]

@husto88 Ummm Yeah they do, that's why they lower it 10 degrees during take off

[husto88]

@MusicLover11325 Errrr yes i kinda knew that

[MusicLover11325]

@husto88 xD Oh I see, the people said that Flaps don't creat lift LOL

[husto88]

@456flight perhaps you should also do an english course. Reread my comment moron

[husto88]

@dantorp11 So then if flaps dont create lift what are they there for? Wierdo

[TheWarPlanet]

@husto88 Your a dumbass, flaps slow the plane down.

[husto88]

How about you reread my comment. If you had paid more attention at school you would realise that the use of the question mark would imply that the comment I made was a question. E.G. What the fuck are you talking about? Secondly you have used the term "your a dumbass" . I believe the correct term you are looking for is "You are a dumdass". My advise my simple little American friend.........spend less time whacking off on FX & go & do a PPL ground course.

[TheWarPlanet]

@husto88 I am sorry teacher, ill make sure i do better on my practice paragraph next time! I hope your sober enough to know this is the internet and no one cares about "grammar" or "correct terms" You sound stupid correcting a person's comment on the internet when it has nothing to do with the conversation. Flaps do cause lift, thats why in a 737 you set flaps to 5 when taking off but also slows the plane is you put flaps to 40.*Main point is flaps are mainly used for landing*Correct my mistakes

[husto88]

@TheWarPlanet OK retard Ill spell it out for you. The description on this vidfeo says that ‘flaps don’t create lift’. My comment says Flaps don’t create lift? I then go on to suggest that if they don’t think flaps create lift then they clearly don’t know anything about aviation. You sir clearly are just a fuckwit. Feel free to check out one the 50something videos on youtube ‘husto88’. I think they may prove I know just a little bit about flaps

[TheWarPlanet]

@husto88 You keep insulting only to know your just some white trash piece of shit. Calling me a retard? i SAID FLAPS DO CREATE LIFT ON THE LAST COMMENT. Don't insult me you have no idea who i am, and by the way i responded to the wrong person, i didn't mean to talk to you... we just had a misunderstanding.... Why you making things up the description says nothing about flaps, but putting it after landing gear which makes no sense. Person who put this video up is a retard.

[husto88]

@TheWarPlanet Interesting comment. I had never messaged you. You called me a dumdass. You strated it not me fuckhead. My comment has 32 positive responces so it looks like you must be the only spasdic on the planet who didnt understand what I was saying. Go back to sleep

[TheWarPlanet]

@husto88 Yes i know i started it so i am apologizing for the misunderstanding. Go back to sleep? Yeah pathetic really, you just gonna keep making more shit up or can we talk like mature adults?

[1budgies]

@dantorp11 u r stupid. flaps DO cause lift. look it up. dumbo

[globemaster68]

@husto88 Flaps may be partially extended on takeoff to increase the amount of lift generated at a given airspeed, as well as to reduce the stalling speed of the airplane. Together, these two effects help an airplane lift off in a shorter distance at a lower drag penalty than that incurred by a full flap deflection.

[jpilot101]

@husto88 Flaps enlarge the total surface area and increase the camber of the wing which increases lift. If it only created drag we wouldn't be able to fly at slow speeds. Keep on studying as I'd expect more from a fellow PPL pilot.

[cf104b]

1st approach was aborted @ minimums 100 ft gove or take a few. Right around 2:00 in the vid you hear the power come back on before the runway was in sight in the window. My guess from the rest of the vid was that there was still traffic on the runway @ minimums... automatic go around.

[idir017]

is flight in rush hour 747 united air hong kong sfo

[yoyoyoyoshua]

yeah

[wild1heart]

This is not United Airlines...  IT is Air China

[rachaelmatt]

Y do u think this is air china?? Not having a go, but y?? The title says united, and in the description it says UA856 as the flight number

[Borck103]

Because United have a blue/white pattern on their winglets that you can easily see from the cabin...it isn't Air China either, because the engine cowls are blue.

[halo2windows]

Old United Colors

[Amtrak1194]

i think the confusion is from the announcements because they are hard to understand and sound something close to cantonese

[BigCockvanHugenDong]

Air China does not have blue engines

[youtrein]

Very nice vid! thanks !

[jlebesis]

Hey mate, good guess in your description, however that is never the case! :) Thanks for posting the video though...good to see!

[Karlzberg414]

probably they just had very late landing clearance due to traffic not having vacated the runway, so pilot went around?

[knowledgecompletion]

You do NOT execute a missed because the gear's been lowered prior to the full deployment of the flaps. It actually is a clear sign that the pilots tried to slow it down and was too fast to fully deploy flaps, which would create too much lift, you'd have to bring it in nose down and touch-down at very high speed then. Compare the first attempt with the second, you'll clearly see that they were way too high on their first.

[knowledgecompletion]

Correct, just testing... ;-) More drag, more stress on the airframe.

[rodrigo100330]

how the flaps dont create lift if they lower the stall speed?

[FSXHD92]

@rodrigo100330 they are used to give lift during lower speed flaps makes the wing bigger by other words

[Updation]

um, description?

[rushcrusier29]

uhmmm your description made no sense! learn to write english better!!

[iappl27]

Learn to read, dumbass.

[blakman7]

Wow, I understood the description perfectly

[bored2death14]

the description was written by an idiot

[gankala8]

yes... for sure

[youtrein]

No , it was written by somebody who has problems in english ! So rescpect him please !

cheers !

[youtrein]

LOl ! I don't answer ! You are too ridiculous and stupid for me ! Sorry poor idiot ! Ciao bello !

[JakubRacek1]

@bored2death14 took me about 3 minutes to understand that description

[elmo11259]

Wow,Hawaiian Airlines B767 going to Honolulu =D

[PSNBOB580]

This is united airlines, THE ORIGIN OF THE FLIGHT IS HONG KONG, so any announcement is made in english and chinese

[wild1heart]

This not United Airlines!!! and yes it is SFO

[BigCockvanHugenDong]

sounds like tiawanese, which would be China Airlines

[francis2383]

no most go arounds has to do with the air traffic

[wild1heart]

That is not English the Captain speaking.. it is Chinese. Air china has a horrible missed approach record......as well as undershooting the runway....

[DuncanLafayette]

You know.....the real reason why the captain had to abort landing was that he felt a sudden urge to scratch his balls and had to withdraw from the controls....that´s all.

 It´s only natural to have itchy balls after long flights.

[neilbrian77]

looks like the first approach was made on 28R and successfully landed on 1R, go around common but not a routine. quite a few times coming into SFO ATC leaves us a bit too high because the approach coming in to 28R or 28L is from across the bay over oakland international airport. OAK. the two airports are only 8 miles apart.

[goccioloni]

no, both approaches were on 28L

first if you look closely you will notice that both approaches occured on the same runway,

now look at the sky, it looks like it is late morning, about 10 AM, so the sun must be southeast of the airport. if it was behind the plane (not too difficult to see) it means the plane was going northwest, and at ksfo the runways that point northwest are 28Land 28R, if it was 28R as you say you would see another runway before the taxiway, but there isnt, that means 28L

[bored2death14]

the guys a nutcase

[gankala8]

and a douch

[anush10]

either atc error or the gusts that often come around San Fran, not the flaps coming before the gear, thats impossible, they lower flaps a lot farther from the airport then gear.

[DiebelsZackspeed]

If this is an UA flight, my grandmother has wheels and she's a tricycle.

[hbcrazyman]

no offense. but coming in too high? maybe if they were rookies that would happen but ur talkin about heavies which means the pilots are very experienced and have been flying for a long time.

[skyeyes44]

Why go around???

[goccioloni]

he says that the pilot downed firs the gear instead of the flaps.

i disagree, coz i think a pilot of a 747 (so with much experience) should know how to fly these birds

my guess is that there was some crosswind that changed and disaligned them on final

[hbcrazyman]

ya, ahhh, ur definately wrong about why you had to go around. what you said actually didnt make any sense whatsoever. go arounds happed all the time at SFO b/c the runways ware very close together.

[francis2383]

not only that but also if you notice theres an aircraft made a very close holding position at the runway where the pilot has to land

[hbcrazyman]

if ur talking about the plane that was waiting outside the runway. again that is normal at all airports. it was far enough away for your plane to land. i assume there was a plane in front of you that didnt clear the runway in time after landing

[greekozzi]

you are so racist, i looked at one of your comments of an etihad plane landing in sydney and that was a racist one too, think you're trying to be funny

[AirChina981]

another possibility is that there could have been traffic on the runway.

[NYZPilot622]

wrong, its VFR and im sure he had visual. Prolly didnt have 6000 ft and airborn on a dept and had to go around.

[pilotanthony]

did you notice the smoke from the tires at landing? At 3:51! lol

[clearancedelivery]

The main gear touchdown?

[natbrain]

That's the touchdown!

[Lionel0715]

he probably couldnt keep behind the another aircarft on the parallel approach(28L&28R). thus having to go around. If he had'nt, the other guy would have had some serious wake turbulence

[congaleader2000]

how do you know that was the reason , it could have been a million other reasons! Planes do that all the time