Is it a badass landing? Yeah. Should he have gone around? FUCK YEAH. That kind of hotdogging, or poor judgment - whatever you want to call it is what gets pilots fired.
@mejus16 you're right, it was a great landing and he can definitelyl fly but, no airline would tolerate that. He probably should have just gone around.
Firstly have a look at the windsock. Kai Tak would've had a 30kt sock so half erect it is indicating 15 knots - very manageable in even a 172. But I am sure all the flight sim arm chair pilots on YT noticed that....
So in summery blowing 4 tyres (as this Korean gentleman did) and having a pod strike in a 747-400 in a 15 knot x-wind is not a job well done. Hence he was sacked and KAL Cargo procedures put under investigation by the HKCAD.
@eugenenah its called crosswind he wouldnt have gotten fined or penalized for anything because he has two choices rock it sideways and land it or go at it straight over shoot the runway or drift into the water or buildings on either side of the runway. its pretty simple really crash or land
could he maybe of got it a bit more on the centre line or is it only possible to land like this in strong slightly off centre line then retrack once landed. Im pretty sure in strong x wind landings they have to touch down slighty off centre line and then retrack one wheels are on the ground. THe pressure from the upwind wing should reduce side loads on the landing gear.
all people is not equal under the communism china,most of people is so poor,but major communist has so many privilege,car house food etc etc,,,,,,major communist in china just want to keep those privilege,so that why they killed historical amount of their citizen,its typical characteristic of communism,communist kill their against people without any permission necessary,china is perfectly lawless zone,chinese communist party killed historical amount of people for keep major communist`s privilege
@MatureViewer i WONT SIT IN THE kOREAN AIRLINE OR THE ASIANA AIRLINE ALTHOUGH THEIR AIR HOSTESS WERE PRETTY! KOREANS WERE THE MOST RECKLESS AND DANGEROUS IN THE WORLD! NOT JUST THEIR POLITICS WERE CRAZY BUT SO DOES THEIR WHOLE SOCIETY!
@pakurangaguy Yes, a very dangerious airline making up to four stars by Skytrax standards. Very dangerous indeed. Judging from the comments on your page, you seem to a fucked up cunt with no sense.
@dhksrksalem the KAL 007 of 1 Sept 1983 take off from Anchorage to Seoul, bending away from the original path into soviet airspace and got shot down by fighters! That crisis nearly triggared WW3! How dangerous those Korean airline was!
@pakurangaguy Actually Soviets accused Korean Air of taking pictures of their military sites along with US. So they shot down the civilian plane. And NO, there was NO WW3, as nuclear states don't challenge nuclear states. If South Korea had nuclear weapons, Soviet would not have shot that plane. Just because of YOUTUBE video, you cannot determine COMPLETE data of which Airline is safest. Complete data is more important, than emotional judgement.
@dhksrksalem Even, Guam was not the fault of the airline as ADMITTED BY the airport which did not maintain their electronic communication light up to maintanence. Guam Airport had to pay $millions to passengers, not korean airline.
@vf12497439 Yeah, they have a much better airport now but the only thing bad about the new one is that it isn't as conviniently close to the down-town as the older airport.
its not that the plane cant climb , it means that the lift is gone , and that the wings dont fly anymore , they just fall through the air. But this is not a stall
its not that the plane cant climb , it means that the lift is gone , and that the wings dont fly anymore , they just fall through the air. But this is not a stall
@PilotGoneBoom I know what Stalling is and that is not stalling, because the aircraft just floats for a good 2 seconds, it must be because of the strength of the wing.
Something i have always wanted to know is, Why does this 747 seem to stop moving and correct it's self to turn onto the runway? Look, at 0:10, it seems to just float in mid air???
I actually witnessed this landing quite a few years ago, the pilot made his right bank on final too late because he overshot the turn marker don't know how it's half a mountain painted red & white checkers, the approach was also too high. It looked like he cross controlled and actually side slipped a 747 to lose altitude and not gain speed. He came to a complete stop before turn off I assumed to change undershorts. Another reason why not to fly Korean Air
@sgddfgfghfgh In simple terms I thought I was witnessing a crash. There is a small mountain painted with red & white checkerboard indicating the turn point on approach to the runway (90 deg. right turn). This guy turned too late and too high. He cross controlled which is a right bank with left rudder which causes the plane to sort of skid in the air and lose altitude without gaining airspeed. I've done this myself, but not with a 747 in a confined space
@limey47 It's called cross wind landing. You were able to see a lot of these landing in this airport. It's the safest way to land in this airport! I presume the wind was blowing from the right side of the plane. Check youtube!!!
@hyungsup2 Definitely not a cross wind landing he overshot the turn point and actually came over the terminal building which put him well off the center line of the runway. Watch the wheel smoke it doesn't blow in either direction - no wind
perfectly fine landing. he crabbed in and turned down before he landed. the camer just caught it late. it was soft. i have done this bfore in the 172, and my headset cord diden't even jiggle lmao.
That's 60+ degree crosswind. Kai Tak is considered a difficult approach because you have to make a right turn before approach, that is, you can't fly straight in due to the mountains, and these guys don't even fly straight in for this short distance.
The first thing that impressed me is the impeccable timing of coming out of his right rudder yaw slip in order to come out just right for the landing not too far off from the center line. I mean, I've done that on flight simulator (very rarely) , but this guy actually does it in real life. All of that and no wing strike at all.
The windsock looks to be showing 10kts assuming it's a 25kt sock which means the landing configuration can't be because of crosswind. A 10kt crosswind wouldn't have such an adverse effect on an aircraft that size! Looks like they overshot the approach and corrected with lots and lots of rudder.
I pretty much agree. If the crosswind was that bad, nobody would ever want to even attempt to fly into this Kai Tak let alone with a heavy aircraft in any crosswind whatsoever. If such is the case, and I agree, then my hat is off to this guy. He sure put on a show in order to refuse to go around.
@MasoniteMiniZ no they didnt dumb ass ! not to mention look at the landing its a beautiful in fact it is almost a greaser!!! beautiful landing AMAZING pilots deserve a raise!!! a BIG raise!
@thefsxandREALpilot this wasn't a great landing at all. the pilot messed up the approach, that's why it looks like a heavy crosswind landing. if you look closely at the smoke from the tires, you see that the wind comes from the left hand side but the aircrafts nose shows to the opposite direction...if this was a crosswind-landing, th nose should have been in the wind
@64h5dsf14j6s41h5s4j5 ya whatever lets see you do that Mr. critic he did an amazing job he had to make a 90 DEGREE TURN ON HIS FINAL APPRCH WITH CROSSWINDS IN A 747 all at the same time and the touchdown was smooth if you look so ok we'll go with it "wasnt a great landing at all"
Or you could just look at the windsock at about 18 seconds and see there wasn't much wind at all. I'd have thought a REAL pilot woudl have spotted that..
@DamoSuzuki100 ya well mr. amazing thinks he could pilot that plane and do it all by himself the quality is too damn bad to see the damn windsock not to meantion the friken video ENDS at 0:18 look they were amazing pilot they did an amazing job they landed the plane so softly with those angles/turn/winds/ whatever the hell else so if you dont think they are amazing pilots then you are a dumbass, idiot
I meant at 0.04 seconds, my mistake - i read the length of the video by mistake. Anyway. Pause it at 0.04 and you will see the windsock quite clearly. NOtice that it is hanging down at about 45 degrees. Now then, A standard windsock will be fully extended at 15 knots of wind, a 45 degree angle implies under 10 knots. Now then, 10 knots of crosswind isn't much if you're in a 747, so he hardly required to be crabbing in like he was..
..so the most likely explanation is that he stuffed up, overshot the centerline, and was struggling like hell to get the thing down when it might have been more sensible to go around. He also manages to stuff it down on the port outermost wheel while still moving sideways, which won't have done it much good, and most certainly wasn't a "soft landing"!
Anyone who claims to be a real pilot but missed the windsock and thinks that was a smooth landing is a liar. Or bad pilot
@64h5dsf14j6s41h5s4j5 you cannot decide that because of the wind. large airplanes create wingtip vortices which create turbulence. saying that the wind was blowing a certain direction because of the smoke of the tires is irrelevent.
@64h5dsf14j6s41h5s4j5 you cannot decide that because of the wind. large airplanes create wingtip vortices which create turbulence. saying that the wind was blowing a certain direction because of the smoke of the tires is irrelevent.
@64h5dsf14j6s41h5s4j5 you cannot decide that because of the wind. large airplanes create wingtip vortices which create turbulence. saying that the wind was blowing a certain direction because of the smoke of the tires is irrelevent.
I do agree that there are thousands of pilots that go through similar or worse weather conditions at kai tak a year but why this landing is impressive is because if you look closely when the plane is landing the left main landing gear takes the weight of the whole plane (400,000 pounds plus passengers and fuel)
I find this landing truly impressive. The way he plants the left main down makes it look like this guy wrote the book on crosswind landings. Even more that it's a jumbo.
i dunno if you've actually flown into Kai Tak or not - but most of the time I fly in - Kai Tak's got so much crosswind on top of hazardous approaching to the airport due to poor city planning in Hong Kong - that this kind of landing is inevitable. I'm actually really glad this vid is up online- it shows how skilled korean air pilots are.
ugh, i'm sorry you suck. Korean Air is not a crap airline after all. Korean Air is indeed one of the safest and nicest airlines in the world. American carriers (american, delta, united, us air, continental, northwest, etc) all suck. there's a reason that Korean Air is the largest air freight carrier in the world and one of the fastest growing commercial airlines in the world.
I'm almost wondering if this guy though he had already the main gears.. Even though he was way too low.
You can see he leveled the wings, and the main gear where almost dead on the centerline. Normally in a 747 crosswind landing you land the main gears on centerline like that, then use them as pivot point, and kick the rudders over to line the nose up then de-rotate. Which he did, but the gear wasn't on the ground, and caused that.
He totally botched the approach, and obviously a lack of common sense lead to this, you can quite clearly see he over shot the runway because he didn't allow for the cross-wind which he would have fully been aware of.
And let me assure you, he would of had plenty of fuel to press to/ga and try again if he was flying within the correct civil aviation standards.
but If there was not enough fuel though I would not be surprised, it is Korean Air after all.. Crap airline, crazy pilot, lucky landing
If he didn't have the fuel to go around, then that is another point against him. You should have enough have enough fuel for to make your diversion field, plus 45 minutes on landing.
That was a pretty unstabalized approach, and a G/A should have been initiated, but any landing you can walk away from is a good one. Any landing you can use the plane again is a great one. Though I am sure the gear and struts had to be checked before the next flight.
To give the pilot a little bennifit of the doubt, it starts of as a fairly good crosswind FROM THE RIGHT approach. Wing 5 degree's down, and crabbing with the nose into the wind. The 747 can not land wing down due to the outboard engine nacels.
The gear is designed to be able to take the weight of the aircraft at a 45 degree angel. It looks like he was too low on the approach, and had to pull out of the crab in order to make the T/D point, and lost it. Almost pod stuck the port outboard
Nearly 50% of all Kai Tak landings look like this. I would like to know if the pilots get extra paycheque for each time playing roulette with their life when landing on the old city airport?
this is kai tak in hong kong. search for all the other videos of crazy landings here. they have to do a crazy approach as to not hit a large hill from which this was taken and also not end up in the city, or the drink.
When you film things from very far away with a strong zoom lens many things tend to look much more dramatic than they are. If you had filmed that landing from the side it probably wouldn't have looked particularly dangerous or anything. : )
Check out the wind sock at 4 seconds. Not much of a cross wind. This crew cocked-up the approach (off the centre line) and made an extremely dangerous recovery manouvre, when they should have gone around for the second attempt. I hope the crew spent several months in front of flight simulators after that stunt (with appropriate reductions in salary).
I agree, can't get a very good perspective on which way the windsock is pointing, but not fully extended so less than 15 knots whichever way it was blowing. He ended up too far left of the runway (common problem in the 747 on this approach) and tried to correct by slewing it back onto the centre line with a boot full of right rudder. It paid off in the end but only because the rest of the approach was good.
Thank You For Flying Chuck Norris!
HenriP44 3 weeks ago
That was sick!
asdlb4 2 months ago
Is it a badass landing? Yeah. Should he have gone around? FUCK YEAH. That kind of hotdogging, or poor judgment - whatever you want to call it is what gets pilots fired.
phillyslasher 2 months ago
@phillyslasher idk wats wrong with u. thats was a great landingg and he is a good pilott....... he has confident in his abilitiesss
mejus16 2 months ago
@mejus16 you're right, it was a great landing and he can definitelyl fly but, no airline would tolerate that. He probably should have just gone around.
phillyslasher 2 months ago
the pilot was ASIAN!!
leftywilson51 2 months ago
ten pilot zamiast jaj to ma ich chyba caly mendel a ludzie na pokladzie w pampersach lecieli
artekfiatgostynin 2 months ago
...KAI TAK DRIFT!!! =D
ctomeiaviles 2 months ago in playlist Kai Tak Landings
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ctomeiaviles 3 months ago
thats was clouse,the wind was to strong for the bowing 777
turtleboy236 3 months ago
Not a "good x-wind landing" as people are saying.
Firstly have a look at the windsock. Kai Tak would've had a 30kt sock so half erect it is indicating 15 knots - very manageable in even a 172. But I am sure all the flight sim arm chair pilots on YT noticed that....
So in summery blowing 4 tyres (as this Korean gentleman did) and having a pod strike in a 747-400 in a 15 knot x-wind is not a job well done. Hence he was sacked and KAL Cargo procedures put under investigation by the HKCAD.
gnarkillkicksass 3 months ago
I love korean air
So i wamt to be a korean air pilot
hoonche2 4 months ago 3
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most of korean air pilots (at least korean citizens) are former air force pilots
ByeongJun 4 months ago
most of korean air pilots (at least korean citizens) are former air force pilots
ByeongJun 4 months ago
Ladies and jentlemen,this is you captain speaking,if u look trough your left window,u can see the aiport steight ahead.
qwertyuio325 4 months ago
Im and Proud Asian. And We can drift anything from Cars to Planes.. And that was actually CRAZY. Im in America and I rarely see that
ItEaChUsTuNtS 4 months ago
pilot is very skilled
Kungeninkorea 5 months ago
actually good landing,,.. especially kai tak
Kungeninkorea 5 months ago
I've heard that the plane was a cargo and the pilot's got a penalty big time because he's screwed up wheels during that landing.
eugenenah 5 months ago
@eugenenah its called crosswind he wouldnt have gotten fined or penalized for anything because he has two choices rock it sideways and land it or go at it straight over shoot the runway or drift into the water or buildings on either side of the runway. its pretty simple really crash or land
Neutrax 4 months ago
could he maybe of got it a bit more on the centre line or is it only possible to land like this in strong slightly off centre line then retrack once landed. Im pretty sure in strong x wind landings they have to touch down slighty off centre line and then retrack one wheels are on the ground. THe pressure from the upwind wing should reduce side loads on the landing gear.
210482fmj 5 months ago
stop judging his landing. he is a great skilled pilot.... he has confidence in his skillz dats y he landed dat plane.. and didnt go around....
mejus16 5 months ago
it is crosswind it's normal. it's hard to make and the pilot we see here make a good crosswind landing!
Unknowntrurle 6 months ago
멋져 ㅋㅋ
troytmkh 6 months ago
Any landing you can walk away from, is a good landing.
herryfro 6 months ago
Tricky
Flaudster 6 months ago
What a cruel land it is landing!
rokuhaidojinto 6 months ago
Crazy Korean !
tnishiki 6 months ago 13
@tnishiki If you don't know about pilot, please don't leave this kind of stupid message for unreasonably blame anything about Korean.
jjunplay 3 months ago
大韓航空 ケンチャナヨ～
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all people is not equal under the communism china,most of people is so poor,but major communist has so many privilege,car house food etc etc,,,,,,major communist in china just want to keep those privilege,so that why they killed historical amount of their citizen,its typical characteristic of communism,communist kill their against people without any permission necessary,china is perfectly lawless zone,chinese communist party killed historical amount of people for keep major communist`s privilege
77777XYZ 6 months ago
jo any one know what company devoloped the landing gears pllzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz reply thx
MyLeft4dead 7 months ago
Kai Tak should have never been approved for airport, but this is small port city with limited landing space. But this pilot is GOOD.
klee642 8 months ago
@klee642 actually this pilot is CRAZY. eventhough he made some wonderful maneuvers to save the passengers lifes he should have aborted his landing.
luukdeman111 7 months ago
i bet that was scary for the pilots and mies78 i agree
TheCaseycad 9 months ago
That pilot has balls. Big ones.
Mies78 10 months ago
That a a Korean air! The most dangerous airline company in the world!
pakurangaguy 10 months ago
@pakurangaguy Go fucking troll somewhere else.
MatureViewer 10 months ago
@MatureViewer i WONT SIT IN THE kOREAN AIRLINE OR THE ASIANA AIRLINE ALTHOUGH THEIR AIR HOSTESS WERE PRETTY! KOREANS WERE THE MOST RECKLESS AND DANGEROUS IN THE WORLD! NOT JUST THEIR POLITICS WERE CRAZY BUT SO DOES THEIR WHOLE SOCIETY!
pakurangaguy 10 months ago
@pakurangaguy Yes, a very dangerious airline making up to four stars by Skytrax standards. Very dangerous indeed. Judging from the comments on your page, you seem to a fucked up cunt with no sense.
MatureViewer 10 months ago
@pakurangaguy who the fuck are you? CCP? how much are you getting paid?
legitworker 9 months ago
@legitworker who am I doesnt matter to you and I will kepp saying Korean air was the most dangerous in the world!
pakurangaguy 9 months ago
@pakurangaguy too long make it short.
legitworker 8 months ago
@pakurangaguy
Maybe, they just don't like you, because you were TOO LOUD.
klee642 8 months ago
@pakurangaguy most dangerous?? what accident is there in history?? except guam
dhksrksalem 10 months ago
@dhksrksalem the KAL 007 of 1 Sept 1983 take off from Anchorage to Seoul, bending away from the original path into soviet airspace and got shot down by fighters! That crisis nearly triggared WW3! How dangerous those Korean airline was!
pakurangaguy 10 months ago
@pakurangaguy It was flying off course, into Soviet airspace, idiot.
fs10inator 9 months ago
@pakurangaguy Actually Soviets accused Korean Air of taking pictures of their military sites along with US. So they shot down the civilian plane. And NO, there was NO WW3, as nuclear states don't challenge nuclear states. If South Korea had nuclear weapons, Soviet would not have shot that plane. Just because of YOUTUBE video, you cannot determine COMPLETE data of which Airline is safest. Complete data is more important, than emotional judgement.
klee642 8 months ago
@dhksrksalem Even, Guam was not the fault of the airline as ADMITTED BY the airport which did not maintain their electronic communication light up to maintanence. Guam Airport had to pay $millions to passengers, not korean airline.
klee642 8 months ago
ken block takes to the skys
kil2live 10 months ago
The asian Chuck Norris was piloting this plane.
DeformedWampaHD 11 months ago
Hey ret's buird a runway so that the wind wirr bro across!
ewoods13 11 months ago
0:7 slychac strzaly
czarny107 11 months ago
Tokio Drift.. Oh... Kai Tak AIR Drift ;)
Mr1lk3r 11 months ago
In that situation who the hell cares if the pilot lands the plane before the threshold?
Tuppoo94 1 year ago
damn thats some fucking flying right there. I bet wind was the issue, drifted it like an Evo10 haha
Paiste402 1 year ago
"Goddamit Boys, this plane is gonna land come hell or high water!!!"
smallbee1234 1 year ago 2
and for now....leave the flying to the asians! :3
BlackNeko95 1 year ago
Talk about a hairy ride! Isn't that the airport they finally closed?
vf12497439 1 year ago
@vf12497439 Yeah, they have a much better airport now but the only thing bad about the new one is that it isn't as conviniently close to the down-town as the older airport.
n40798 1 year ago
Fancy Flying!!!!!!!!!
captainpilot27 1 year ago
....."oh there's the runway"
lol
Orangebike666 1 year ago
i would've shat a brick if that happened to me.
MTran0708 1 year ago
Airplane landing. Tokyo Drift style ..
jaythebadkid 1 year ago
OH CRAP !
scapilot 1 year ago
so fucking skillet pilot..!! Wish i could do this !
metadera 1 year ago
great pilot! if you look carefully during the landing you can see that at first only one set of wheel takes the impact! great machine as well!
levlevi 1 year ago
asians can drift anything
DjNawmsayin 1 year ago 145
@DjNawmsayin yeah they can drive too
ninjadude92584 7 months ago
I wouldn't have wanted to sit at the "port" side during this landing :-P
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@PilotGoneBoom
its not that the plane cant climb , it means that the lift is gone , and that the wings dont fly anymore , they just fall through the air. But this is not a stall
SebastienDS 1 year ago
@PilotGoneBoom
its not that the plane cant climb , it means that the lift is gone , and that the wings dont fly anymore , they just fall through the air. But this is not a stall
SebastienDS 1 year ago
@PilotGoneBoom I know what Stalling is and that is not stalling, because the aircraft just floats for a good 2 seconds, it must be because of the strength of the wing.
747Kyle 1 year ago
Something i have always wanted to know is, Why does this 747 seem to stop moving and correct it's self to turn onto the runway? Look, at 0:10, it seems to just float in mid air???
747Kyle 1 year ago
thank God for handbrake
21javla21 1 year ago
HOLYSHIT!
GGrev 1 year ago
I actually witnessed this landing quite a few years ago, the pilot made his right bank on final too late because he overshot the turn marker don't know how it's half a mountain painted red & white checkers, the approach was also too high. It looked like he cross controlled and actually side slipped a 747 to lose altitude and not gain speed. He came to a complete stop before turn off I assumed to change undershorts. Another reason why not to fly Korean Air
limey47 1 year ago
@limey47 what? in simple talk please
sgddfgfghfgh 1 year ago
@sgddfgfghfgh In simple terms I thought I was witnessing a crash. There is a small mountain painted with red & white checkerboard indicating the turn point on approach to the runway (90 deg. right turn). This guy turned too late and too high. He cross controlled which is a right bank with left rudder which causes the plane to sort of skid in the air and lose altitude without gaining airspeed. I've done this myself, but not with a 747 in a confined space
limey47 1 year ago
@limey47
yeh its sideslipping
SebastienDS 1 year ago
@limey47 It's called cross wind landing. You were able to see a lot of these landing in this airport. It's the safest way to land in this airport! I presume the wind was blowing from the right side of the plane. Check youtube!!!
hyungsup2 1 year ago
@hyungsup2 Definitely not a cross wind landing he overshot the turn point and actually came over the terminal building which put him well off the center line of the runway. Watch the wheel smoke it doesn't blow in either direction - no wind
limey47 1 year ago
@hyungsup2
its not crosswind.... it is called sideslipping , like limey47 said it works as kinda airbrake
SebastienDS 1 year ago
Yo This Pilot Was Trying to Show off to end up on youtube just because he a pilot dosent me wanna be a wanna be
Ilovegogosable 1 year ago
chuck norris did an air hump
rishirocky111 1 year ago
Koreans... standard procedure.
0verknight 1 year ago
i wonder if the plane was checked out in the hangar afer this heavy touch down for structural issues if any.
1982FMJ 1 year ago
plane drifting.............WHAT A SHIT!!!!!!!!
1256778 1 year ago
Apparently, this happened a lot at Kai Tak. That's why they needed to build a new airport away from the hills in the city.
dmnddog74 1 year ago
what happens if u having a shit when it lands, like, when it bumps on the ground ur shit will fly up onto your ass...
TheRunscapeNoobShow 1 year ago
@TheRunscapeNoobShow genious
yoshihawv 1 year ago
@yoshihawv ikr Lol
TheRunscapeNoobShow 1 year ago
hes just drifting
slippp40 1 year ago
0:10 The 747 turns into a Harrier! XD
mtsmario97 1 year ago
crazy yellow people
ROMAS53 1 year ago
perfectly fine landing. he crabbed in and turned down before he landed. the camer just caught it late. it was soft. i have done this bfore in the 172, and my headset cord diden't even jiggle lmao.
p4ndiamond 1 year ago
@p4ndiamond Except that he had no reason to crab
lumpheadthump 1 year ago
@p4ndiamond Apparently I was wrong. Just spoke with a former 747-400 Capt. who said that was a crazy approach....
lumpheadthump 1 year ago
wow
sausyyy 1 year ago
Joder, al final como lo cuadra el cabrón
bonetista2 1 year ago
actually the Korean 747 pilots are pretty badass
leonelp51 1 year ago
Which Microsoft flight sim is this? ;-)
furq123 1 year ago
You can't compare simulators to the real thing, harder to fly in reality, FSX has a certain element of game about it, I should know I fly them.
oldfart4751 1 year ago
this airport is nuts
XD12CL 1 year ago
mmmmlike a glove
al3699 1 year ago
That's 60+ degree crosswind. Kai Tak is considered a difficult approach because you have to make a right turn before approach, that is, you can't fly straight in due to the mountains, and these guys don't even fly straight in for this short distance.
1975Aspen 1 year ago
good job!
CL747 1 year ago
The first thing that impressed me is the impeccable timing of coming out of his right rudder yaw slip in order to come out just right for the landing not too far off from the center line. I mean, I've done that on flight simulator (very rarely) , but this guy actually does it in real life. All of that and no wing strike at all.
stratoleft 1 year ago
omg major skill!
awesome landing!! wow!
nipzilla 1 year ago
The windsock looks to be showing 10kts assuming it's a 25kt sock which means the landing configuration can't be because of crosswind. A 10kt crosswind wouldn't have such an adverse effect on an aircraft that size! Looks like they overshot the approach and corrected with lots and lots of rudder.
eibib 1 year ago 2
I pretty much agree. If the crosswind was that bad, nobody would ever want to even attempt to fly into this Kai Tak let alone with a heavy aircraft in any crosswind whatsoever. If such is the case, and I agree, then my hat is off to this guy. He sure put on a show in order to refuse to go around.
stratoleft 1 year ago
@eibib
That's exactly what happened, there is almost no crosswind.
They punctured 14 of the 16 wheels on that landing.
MasoniteMiniZ 1 year ago 7
@MasoniteMiniZ no they didnt dumb ass ! not to mention look at the landing its a beautiful in fact it is almost a greaser!!! beautiful landing AMAZING pilots deserve a raise!!! a BIG raise!
thefsxandREALpilot 1 year ago
@thefsxandREALpilot this wasn't a great landing at all. the pilot messed up the approach, that's why it looks like a heavy crosswind landing. if you look closely at the smoke from the tires, you see that the wind comes from the left hand side but the aircrafts nose shows to the opposite direction...if this was a crosswind-landing, th nose should have been in the wind
64h5dsf14j6s41h5s4j5 1 year ago
@64h5dsf14j6s41h5s4j5 ya whatever lets see you do that Mr. critic he did an amazing job he had to make a 90 DEGREE TURN ON HIS FINAL APPRCH WITH CROSSWINDS IN A 747 all at the same time and the touchdown was smooth if you look so ok we'll go with it "wasnt a great landing at all"
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DamoSuzuki100 1 year ago
@thefsxandREALpilot
Or you could just look at the windsock at about 18 seconds and see there wasn't much wind at all. I'd have thought a REAL pilot woudl have spotted that..
DamoSuzuki100 1 year ago
@DamoSuzuki100 ya well mr. amazing thinks he could pilot that plane and do it all by himself the quality is too damn bad to see the damn windsock not to meantion the friken video ENDS at 0:18 look they were amazing pilot they did an amazing job they landed the plane so softly with those angles/turn/winds/ whatever the hell else so if you dont think they are amazing pilots then you are a dumbass, idiot
thefsxandREALpilot 1 year ago
@thefsxandREALpilot
I meant at 0.04 seconds, my mistake - i read the length of the video by mistake. Anyway. Pause it at 0.04 and you will see the windsock quite clearly. NOtice that it is hanging down at about 45 degrees. Now then, A standard windsock will be fully extended at 15 knots of wind, a 45 degree angle implies under 10 knots. Now then, 10 knots of crosswind isn't much if you're in a 747, so he hardly required to be crabbing in like he was..
DamoSuzuki100 1 year ago
@thefsxandREALpilot
..so the most likely explanation is that he stuffed up, overshot the centerline, and was struggling like hell to get the thing down when it might have been more sensible to go around. He also manages to stuff it down on the port outermost wheel while still moving sideways, which won't have done it much good, and most certainly wasn't a "soft landing"!
Anyone who claims to be a real pilot but missed the windsock and thinks that was a smooth landing is a liar. Or bad pilot
DamoSuzuki100 1 year ago
@64h5dsf14j6s41h5s4j5 you cannot decide that because of the wind. large airplanes create wingtip vortices which create turbulence. saying that the wind was blowing a certain direction because of the smoke of the tires is irrelevent.
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@64h5dsf14j6s41h5s4j5 you cannot decide that because of the wind. large airplanes create wingtip vortices which create turbulence. saying that the wind was blowing a certain direction because of the smoke of the tires is irrelevent.
32chris2010 1 year ago
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@64h5dsf14j6s41h5s4j5 you cannot decide that because of the wind. large airplanes create wingtip vortices which create turbulence. saying that the wind was blowing a certain direction because of the smoke of the tires is irrelevent.
32chris2010 1 year ago
@64h5dsf14j6s41h5s4j5
I concur - he overcooked the turn and was off centerline, and had to struggle like hell to get it back. Still, better to be lucky than good..
DamoSuzuki100 1 year ago
@MasoniteMiniZ It's a Boeing 747-400 it had a total of 18 wheels not 16. Also there is clearly a left crosswind.
landmark425 6 months ago
quite agile, consittering the tail is the size of a small apartment
fsxmaniac 1 year ago
skillz XD
crysispro1 1 year ago
this crazy landing is called an crosswind landing
Waddeck43 2 years ago 4
XD it looks like a ufo landing alittle at the end
youwutupdog 2 years ago
I do agree that there are thousands of pilots that go through similar or worse weather conditions at kai tak a year but why this landing is impressive is because if you look closely when the plane is landing the left main landing gear takes the weight of the whole plane (400,000 pounds plus passengers and fuel)
Pandasianx 2 years ago 6
it's not zero-lift-condition at that stage, so only bout 50% of the whole mass. but still impressive!!
xxWEEDMAxx 2 years ago
I find this landing truly impressive. The way he plants the left main down makes it look like this guy wrote the book on crosswind landings. Even more that it's a jumbo.
kolbpilot 2 years ago
the pilots are jitsuing with the crosswinds :D
Koolass598 2 years ago
pretty impressive, looks like he's fighting a mean cross wind
dsmoke8180 2 years ago
This is why I always take a shit BEFORE I get on a plane
DoinThupidThings 2 years ago 83
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takes no skill at all its just crosswind over 6,000 planes do that at that airport a day and like 50,000 a week....
jimbohunter21 2 years ago
I rhink I´ve seen it before...but still as skillful as it gets
pakkinen 2 years ago
pure skill and beastlyness
fightinirish0129 2 years ago
Crazy Landing? Just a pretty well pulled off Crosswind to me..
murpet1988 2 years ago 6
i dunno if you've actually flown into Kai Tak or not - but most of the time I fly in - Kai Tak's got so much crosswind on top of hazardous approaching to the airport due to poor city planning in Hong Kong - that this kind of landing is inevitable. I'm actually really glad this vid is up online- it shows how skilled korean air pilots are.
aerok1025 2 years ago 3
ugh, i'm sorry you suck. Korean Air is not a crap airline after all. Korean Air is indeed one of the safest and nicest airlines in the world. American carriers (american, delta, united, us air, continental, northwest, etc) all suck. there's a reason that Korean Air is the largest air freight carrier in the world and one of the fastest growing commercial airlines in the world.
aerok1025 2 years ago 5
I'm almost wondering if this guy though he had already the main gears.. Even though he was way too low.
You can see he leveled the wings, and the main gear where almost dead on the centerline. Normally in a 747 crosswind landing you land the main gears on centerline like that, then use them as pivot point, and kick the rudders over to line the nose up then de-rotate. Which he did, but the gear wasn't on the ground, and caused that.
bphendri 2 years ago
in TV ,i see this case
koy362 2 years ago
Only a pussy would go around.
4BORE 2 years ago
that is crosswind
Sviatoslav69R 2 years ago
this real PRO!
newworldtron 2 years ago 5
that was a nice landing!!!!!!!!
QantasFan747 2 years ago 2
What a stupid place to put an airport.
JP5466 2 years ago 3
Guys I can assure you that there would have been an FAA inquiry into this and then the pilot flying fired.
My Dad was shocked to see this landing in Kai Tak, & he's a Qantas Captain that used to fly into here all the time.
There is no excuse for the stupidity & ignorance displayed here, & why he didn't just go-around is beyond me
SJB173 2 years ago
This pilot earned his paycheck for this landing, I can assure you.
Maybe he didn't have the fuel to go around???
I think this pilot did and excellent job landing this aircraft, given the current situation.
Airportchris2 2 years ago
He totally botched the approach, and obviously a lack of common sense lead to this, you can quite clearly see he over shot the runway because he didn't allow for the cross-wind which he would have fully been aware of.
And let me assure you, he would of had plenty of fuel to press to/ga and try again if he was flying within the correct civil aviation standards.
but If there was not enough fuel though I would not be surprised, it is Korean Air after all.. Crap airline, crazy pilot, lucky landing
SJB173 2 years ago
If he didn't have the fuel to go around, then that is another point against him. You should have enough have enough fuel for to make your diversion field, plus 45 minutes on landing.
That was a pretty unstabalized approach, and a G/A should have been initiated, but any landing you can walk away from is a good one. Any landing you can use the plane again is a great one. Though I am sure the gear and struts had to be checked before the next flight.
bphendri 2 years ago
Oh trust me, my dad said the aircraft mechanics were hating this pilot, lol.
Airportchris2 2 years ago
To give the pilot a little bennifit of the doubt, it starts of as a fairly good crosswind FROM THE RIGHT approach. Wing 5 degree's down, and crabbing with the nose into the wind. The 747 can not land wing down due to the outboard engine nacels.
The gear is designed to be able to take the weight of the aircraft at a 45 degree angel. It looks like he was too low on the approach, and had to pull out of the crab in order to make the T/D point, and lost it. Almost pod stuck the port outboard
bphendri 2 years ago
An FAA inquirey into a foreign owned carrier, at a non US airport. Surely you jest..
bphendri 2 years ago
Well whatever the Chinese civil aviation authority is called then..
This was an extremely unprofessional landing. END OF STORY
SJB173 2 years ago
Nearly 50% of all Kai Tak landings look like this. I would like to know if the pilots get extra paycheque for each time playing roulette with their life when landing on the old city airport?
hardstylerDE 2 years ago 4
the pilot is just showing off so he could end up here on youtube
sfmakten 2 years ago 53
this is kai tak in hong kong. search for all the other videos of crazy landings here. they have to do a crazy approach as to not hit a large hill from which this was taken and also not end up in the city, or the drink.
100Yottabytes 2 years ago
dude, i was being sarcastic!
sfmakten 2 years ago
@sfmakten hahahha youtube came out about seven years after kai tak airport closed ;)
arthurrox 1 year ago
@sfmakten yeah, either he makes it here to you tube, or six feet under ground, sounds kinda risky
tvoice1 1 year ago
@sfmakten lol kai tak was closed in 98
pikapoketpu 1 year ago
damn thats some nice crosswind flying it looks crazy but its pretty nice done
rikske66 2 years ago
Its not crosswind, its an extremely bad pilot. And the worse of all that is that he didn't go around like every pilot would've done.
TheFlightFreak 2 years ago
A landing illegal by the FAA..
ravensfreak0624 2 years ago
When you film things from very far away with a strong zoom lens many things tend to look much more dramatic than they are. If you had filmed that landing from the side it probably wouldn't have looked particularly dangerous or anything. : )
winterstellar 2 years ago 2
Check out the wind sock at 4 seconds. Not much of a cross wind. This crew cocked-up the approach (off the centre line) and made an extremely dangerous recovery manouvre, when they should have gone around for the second attempt. I hope the crew spent several months in front of flight simulators after that stunt (with appropriate reductions in salary).
genjishikibu 2 years ago
I agree, can't get a very good perspective on which way the windsock is pointing, but not fully extended so less than 15 knots whichever way it was blowing. He ended up too far left of the runway (common problem in the 747 on this approach) and tried to correct by slewing it back onto the centre line with a boot full of right rudder. It paid off in the end but only because the rest of the approach was good.
Tomosan2888 2 years ago
disgrace of an airport. no concern for the safety of anyone. shocking.
jord8609 2 years ago
pilots in the old days had much more skills
greenxgreenman 2 years ago
Its ok to land in the displaced threshold in VFR conditions.
thefsxflyer 2 years ago
respect for the man!!!
superpartiapl 2 years ago
anyone who thinks this is a good crosswind landing look at the windsock and go back to flightsim2004 or whatever you play in shame.
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walkofdoom 2 years ago
Great skills
PhilipDK5800 2 years ago 2
is that the same pilot who crashed the korean air 747 a while ago? the one on air crash investigation>?
afrodude312 2 years ago
Kai Tak airport closed in 1998 because it was outdated and "unsafe", and replaced by the modern Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok.
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