Aborted landings,turbulence, crosswinds and nervous passengers!

[Missmorrigen]

71 knots.. is over a hurricane :p ? 64+ is hurricane, and when i's hurricane airports are suppose to be closed (:

[knaphilllee]

Hey dude - was this taken from short-term car park??? I tried to do same and they kicked me out - bloody security measures - thanks al-qaedda - ruin things for everyone you b*****ds

[1993GOS]

did that 777 ever land? lol

[natofsx8]

@1993GOS lol,what a bad day for fly to Lgw!

[AndrewJM70]

Amazing video! I was actually on the jump seat in a 757 departing at around this time. I have never seen anything like it. As we took off the whole plane shuddered and the stall warning sounded! The cockpit-voice recording would have had me saying "f*cking hell!!"

[appleglory]

71 knots... your kidding me right?

[paulnod]

@appleglory Remember, gusts of 71 Knots but not all the time it was one of the worst days i had seen at LGW for a long time.

[JerdooFlightX]

dang, these winds are sick, wouldn't wanna be up there with those winds :)

[Jetpilotsid99]

90 knots crosswind?WTF?

[paulnod]

Isle of Portland (Dorset) 67 Knots 10/03/2008 1300

[Ben123planes]

@paulnod wow

[paulnod]

Berry Head (Devon) 71 Knots 10/03/2008 0300

[paulnod]

Mumbles Head (near Swansea) 71 Knots 10/03/2008  0400

[paulnod]

Needles Old Battery (Isle of Wight) 83 Knots 10/03/2008 13:00

[paulnod]

i believe on runway 26L it was 190 degrees most of the time with gusts up to 40 knots

[paulnod]

Here is a BBC Report . Many places had severe gales and heavy rain on the 10th, with the south-west of England especially taking the brunt of this storm. There were gusts of wind in excess of 70 m.p.h. and some of the rain and showers were accompanied by thunder. some very squally winds were noted further south. Berry Head (Devon) recorded a gust of 82 m.p.h. on the 10th and Crosby (Merseyside) recorded a gust of 75 m.p.h. on the 12th.

[1037pm]

Only one landing out of all of those, scary

[Ben123planes]

do you know how many (in knots) thw wind was?

[mrfloppyjoe]

okay i have to say it happened to me once and i thought it was a bit of a laugh then we did round 2 and i was like okay like it was good while it lasted i kinda want to get land so id be on time, then 3 and i was like okay what the fuck can we not just go to a different airport to land, then 4 okay im feeling a little sick and the grown man next to me crying has me nervous, 5 bumpy as hell the crying man becomes a sick man on my shoes and the fear of god is put in me, never again

[rachaelmatt]

stuff being some1 on those planes, looks scary, were they diverted at all due to the wind?

[congaleader2000]

I understand Gatwick only has one runway so there's no other option, correct?

[paulnod]

26 and 08 although it does have 26r and 08l which is shorter and very rarely used and of course no good if the winds are 190 at 26kts plus!!But no other direction facing runway

[rachaelmatt]

Is that second BA 777 the same 1. Gone around twice. This is an amazing video, wish i was there, i'd love to see that many go-arounds. excellent and faved :)

[aviationwingnut]

Don't aplogize for the wind noise!! I thought that was WAY cool!! I could watch that kind of stuff for way longer than the vid was.

[warminator]

Looks like a typical nasty day that occurs in autumn or winter.

Oh dear.. The poor pax.

[darcougar]

lotta wasted fuel that day. safety comes first of course

[gary747pilot]

wat if u was on those planes

[DarkDeseas]

must had been cool :D

[soeffingwhat]

@DarkDeseas - if you think it was cool to be on one of those planes then you don't know much about it. if feels like Hell.

[DarkDeseas]

@soeffingwhat

i already had such approaches and i love em! ;)

[soeffingwhat]

@DarkDeseas

good for you, I wish I could do that

[joelmcmahon843]

did any of these planes actually land though

[paulnod]

as far as i am aware once they did a go around they did not come back until the weather got better

[continentalblue]

wow that is a very bad day to fly

[gymcoach15]

Wow that had to be a very stressful day for air traffic control.

[snedzy]

f@$% that!

[USAirbus380]

No nails left on that plane lol

[soeffingwhat]

Yes and plenty of Vomit to clean up afterwards. I HATE Turbulent Landings, they make me feel sick

[wifwat]

Very nice!! That would have been some ride! lol

[erendiraz]

So many missed approaches!

[Joewaaa]

pilots are pro in that video! *favorited

[DLB11071990]

Planes are going around like crazy. I felt for that BA 777 that circled twice ( i think), though i could be another 777 from somewhere else.

[paulnod]

i don't believe it was the same one as you would not want to try that approach again, i felt for the passengers ,i would have hated it.

[COA4168]

Probably Gatwick

[jackjones5000]

Which Airport is this?

[netscroller]

I think this airport has to be closed in cause of this weather conditions. Its to scary guys. Look at Germany´s Lufthansa´s near Crash in hamburg ! Why almost people must die before humankind will react....

[Elvin1202]

those landing was very hard ohhh my god

[bebocampbell]

nice noise off the BA 777!

[ManiacMitchUK]

My Tutor At School Was On That Plane xD

[bollybib678]

I landed in gatwick in an electric thunderstorm yesterday!

[unserefilme]

nightmare

[RingwaySam]

Excellent. Thanks for sharing! :-)