Lufthansa Airbus A320 Wingstrike At Hamburg Intl (EDDH)

[AirplanesWorld]

Dont blame the pilot!

It was bad weather and he did a great landing in those conditions

[getalife67]

THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN FAT PORK BELLY C.E.O'S FLY ON THE PLANE!

[yoshidis4]

i dont know if he put aileron into the wind when releasing the rudder

but does not look he did

nasty x-winds and good choice to go-aroung

[fallingwater]

Holy crap. Imagine being a passenger in that flight...

[looneyirish007]

i bet you no fucker was clapping at that landing, fucking hell,!

[jbranco254]

To all that say something they read somewhere, like , " Shoulda diverted!" or how the tower should have closed the field, A) tower doesnt make that call. B) diverted due to sheer? I dont think so. Its a one shot deal or microburst, and unless published due to continuing effects, whereby the filing pilot would anticipate this, "diverting" if like getting out of your car and walking home due to traffic. Doesnt work like that. Guys with a little information, leave the critique to real pilots.

[jbranco254]

You know, I may not be an expert. I have only 11,000 tt, and am typed on 73's 75's, and now drive the Bus A330/340 style. While I know only what I have actually done, and no more, no less. But I have to say, theirs about 100 too many guys who live in the basement of moms hous, flying computer games, thereby feel the need to comment on every Youtube movie about a bad approach. To everyone that said something so far off base about drinking or girl comments. Grow a set, and take a lesson.

[ajb2552]

H Did Not Try to stay on the ground. He did the right thing. He Went Around. He was running out of runway. Could have been outside limits. shoulda diverted!

[Flyingextrordinaire]

If the plane stays in one piece and is on the ground its a good landing

[Flyingextrordinaire]

If the plane stays in one piece and is on the ground its a good landing

[sonicfan7]

A suggestion to airbus. Ground radar altimeter on each wingtip and programs the FEP to prevent wingstrike.

[zechariaszemed]

the pilot had t drank too much german beer. stupid german!!

[profetadellinfinito]

...not lunch served aboard...:-)

[historylover54]

For the record, they did safely get off the ground again. Well done

[MrLindevall]

The pilot was a young lady!

[HuasoPodrido]

Now that is a bitch of a cross wind to counter! Kudos to the crew in being able to abort landing and go around.

[bagelboi66]

Disaster doesn't come much closer than this. Kudos to the skill of the pilots. That could have been much uglier.

[FSX404]

I think I heard that the FO tried to land this plane and then the Captain took over after the plane got out of hand, anyway don't knock it until you try it, things can go bad in a split second when flying a plane, doesn't take much.

[Deltapilot96]

lufthansa must have crashed a lot of planesat this airport. there are many different LH A320 crosswind landing with wingstrikes an more on yt

[2c1496]

To all of you "expert" critics..let me tell you, what he did was an incredible job of not making a crater in the runway

[VicenzoV]

If the left wing would have gone 1 feet lower the video would have been much more spectacular.And tragic, of course...

[aboajaka]

@VicenzoV They scraped it against the runway!

[BIGBalls136]

I know he should have not landed here but give the man some praise for not crashing the damm thing.

[nubishnewbie]

Well if it starts from 1000miles and must come to any other destination.. at the departure its sunny weather and at arrive its this kind of weather.. but they must be informed before..And if they miss the landing or its foggy automaticly must take off again with no disscution... TowersMistake!!!. Pilot-He did a nice crosswind.. But failed.

[swjgt]

@TombstoneAnnieOakly exactly thats what I mean. You stay up late.

[UA1ZLH]

@swjgt

Да вобщем-то ушел-же на второй. Летчик жив - полет удался :)))

[swjgt]

@TombstoneAnnieOakly The computer doesn't slow down when it doesn't have enough memory. Infact I can't think of an occasion when an Airbus has crashed because it runs out off RAM lol. I know what you mean about fly by wire controls but you can fly the plane manualy as well. P.S. you stay up awfully late considering your supposed to live in the US. Check and Mate.

[swjgt]

@TombstoneAnnieOakly Just one more thing. you said 'common sense cuz he should waved off + come in again'. 1. He did indeed go around. 2. He couldn't have avoided the problem it was a sudden crosswind gust, it hit the airplane and the pilot quickly reacted. The near wing-strike was a result of him trying to control the aircraft from smashing into the ground!

[swjgt]

@TombstoneAnnieOakly Hey I've just read this conversation and tombstone your a retard! I've flown both the A320 and 757 and I have to say the A320 is more responsive. I too have to say I don't think you used to be in the USAF as you wouldn't be making comments like that if you were. 'this wouldn't happen to a Boeing' puh.

[cheesemaster1000]

@TombstoneAnnieOakly You can't say 'this wouldn't happen to a boeing' and for this reason I highly doubt you used to be in the USAF. And I don't need your opinion on European airlines because your wrong, how is Lufthansa a cheap European airline?

[cheesemaster1000]

@TombstoneAnnieOakly The facts are Airbus has a near perfect safety record and boeing doesn't. Lufthansa hasn't had a plane crash in 17 years where as American Airlines has its own page full of plane crashes on wiki, the last being a few months ago in a Boeing.

[cheesemaster1000]

@TombstoneAnnieOakly What the hell! shut up... You say airbus doesn't have hydraulics, do you even know what hydraulics are? and I don't know why you think boeing and american pilots are the holy grail. The truth is Airbus has a near perfect saftey history and boeing doesn't

[ceemosp]

@TombstoneAnnieOakly No comment but this one. You are a prime example of what incest results in!

[swjgt]

@ceemosp lol he didn't reply so it must be true.

[swjgt]

@swjgt oh my bad I didn't see that he replied

[nzthunderboy]

damm that was close..!! A+ to the pilot the way he handled the situation. that was a tough crosswind approach.

[Thisizr3y]

after dat i be fuckin scared i think i would shit on myself lol..

[KittJaceTessAlexShow]

bad crosswind must be skilled pilot to land with that kind of crosswind

[MRKaySan]

actually here in germany the female pilot was celebrated because of her great reaction when the wingtip hit the runway...

[roseipk]

ATC should have closed the airport in such conditions.

[TheAmazingProduction]

Jeese, I don't think the pilot realised just how lucky she was. That was extremly close, that could of been a bad accident if it had hit.

[ahmershah1982]

should have gone to another destination rather than messing with the lives of hundreds

[liam12189]

yeah i totally agree

[LordFabs]

@ahmershah1982 maybe he didnt know how bad the conditions were?

[Marsal100]

omg

[rutgerme]

haha that looked funny!

[wedixx]

scary shit :S

[rj5382]

bogg roll anyone? :)

[AnimatorLinden]

first day on the job? :D

[rutgerme]

maybe...

[platez81]

This is a VERY rare footage!

[AjaxBU]

That's a very good considering the crosswind component was very close to if not more than the maximum demonstrated for that aircraft. Cross wind landings can be fun but also very difficult and nerve racking. The pilot is clearly very qualified

[whammy9531]

Only idiots can land abruptly to the ground..

[drmaglev]

I was on that plane and I can tell you the pilot did well to get everyone out alive. The side winds were terrible. I was sitting on the right wing. Luckily the A320 is a great plane. I don't think a Boeing would have survived a take off that sudden.

[OHHYESSAHH]

so why did he take off again?

[alexdahley11]

@OHHYESSAHH to take another shot at landing

[OHHYESSAHH]

@alexdahley11 ok, then? it would make it even harder if u think about it.. coz he might not be able to touch the ground again?

[TurboTorrez]

because of the weather :)

[XclusiVeGen1Us]

Did they let the orangutans pilot that day or did they just decide to drink and fly? That could've gone horribly wrong.

[lhrlyc]

really stupid statement

the pilot was wonderful and did it all perfectly given the extreme crosswinds

[1969LEO1969]

No he definitely did not. The first thing he did wrong was attempting that landing in the first place. ADM (Aeronautical Decision Making), the reason we still have people in the cockpit is because they should be able to make a good decision on a bad look and just divert. Better than killing a few hundred people.

Oh and he way over-corrected twice which almost cost the plane, twice.

[JLangevin]

Just to correct you on one point, the Pilot was female, not that this matters, just correcting the "he" comments. - You are absolutely right, the Pilots should have refused to land the aircraft on that runway once they realized it was requiring full rudder just to keep it squared on the glide slope and approach. The tower was also in the wrong for refusing to close this runway before this event happened. Kudos to the pilot for holding on it, with 2 wheels and a tip in the grass!

[slotter101]

i was on the plane it was fuuking scary

[TheeReturn]

I bet the passengers were soiling in their sick bags.

[DanielR305]

thank god I was not on that plane can't German air traffic control read wind reading on their weather systems or see clouds ahead on the weather screens at all? If any other airport had this extreme cross wind problems they would ether restrict movements and only certain flights could come in from a certain angle until cross winds had eased or in severe cases close the airport in severest of cases clearly the controller in the tower clearly has vision probs. clearly it seems to me anyaway

[19zy16]

Dobry Drift... :)

[MrBusching]

Poland ??? haha

That was here in Germany... :P

Hamburg Airport

[Tr8AIR]

fai

[XclusiVeGen1Us]

dude, u failed at calling a fail. I'm so sorry for u.

[pyryzzz]

fail

[metaljoe7197]

fail

[herkesus]

that was that time when first time in poland apears tornado

[haha0723]

cross wind landing

[philkarn]

Holy shit, I've never seen that big a crab angle. Just how strong was the crosswind??

[barlow1690]

well done to the pilot, would have been easy to have lost control on that big mother fucker

[burcmm]

how the fuck can the tower allow landings in that kind of wind???? It is some luck you need to land a plane safely in that wind...

[ALanMoRaN3731]

Those guys are sad for filming a plane landing in the first place.

[SteamFanNo1]

It's a drunk plane.

[liam12189]

haha niceone (Y)  :)

[I200gI]

Haste das gesehn? der hat den flügel meiner meinung nach..... ;D

schöner buddy-ogün-slang ;D

[harvancik123]

it's not that hard... I can do it easily in ace combat! haha jk, i suck

[fanmanabc]

not a bad landng, just extremely hard. i fly small planes and gliders and thats really hard to land with a 10-20 knot crosswind. in the video its prob more like a 30 knot crosswind, props for him to have the balls to land in that

[alexedit1]

he has a crosswind and was compensating with rudder. This is the right way to do it, the problem is that when you are about to touch down and let of of the rudder, the wings dip

[flamingcookbook]

airbus huh?

[DRKBULLETX]

The gust pushed it diagonal to the runway, the passengers probably shit their pants. Thank god the pilot did a touch and go instead of landing. If he would of landed the A320 probably would of flipped out.

[ronmania86]

WTFFF????? i am a pilot n i know airliners hire really experienced pilots who can atleast not touchdown and go off almost the runway the way this dude did..

he needs to go bak to the sim and practice ..

u just cant go around landin on the edges with one wing nearly cuttin away the grass on the sides..lols

[lingping007]

Your a pilot? - yeah of a game maybe. You dont know how hard it must of been for this person too land, dont get all cocky thinking your a pilot when all you do is pilot a plane on a freaking game. Yeh, do yourself a favor and atleast try to become a real pilot, then you'll see how hard it is?

Yeh good one.

[RHCP9181]

@lingping007 its hard to land a plane in those conditions i understand that. but u know pilots dont stress about that kinda stuff they try to bring it in it dont work it dont work. but yeah its hard i agree with ya. who were u talking to that said they were a pilot?

[minimusmax]

@lingping007 I agree. I'm a REAL pilot and you have no idea what the winds were doing. As you can tell from the crab angel of the aircraft... the winds were high and it was a decent cross wind. Who knows whether or not they were gusting, which would make that even worse

[kinwai98]

lucky...

[C8622]

crosswind landings are not easy

[cacotadura]

uff

[sthwatkins]

Wow, that is bad

[Daniel01465]

thats bad