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  • In answer to your questions: Yes, the passengers would have felt the heavy swaying/tilting of the plane.

  • blood in eyes!

  • wow nice landing

  • Power of korean pilot

  • @happyjongseok It's KLM, A dutch company...

  • @rionrace are you mental thats south korean airlines

  • @rionrace yea thats south korean airlines, the symbol looks somewhat like the pepsi symbol, so yea its SKA

  • AIR DRIFTING!!!

  • thats one hell of a slip.

  • Very risky. He should've done a go-around so he could straighten out. 0.o

  • @randompoliceofficer this is in Kai Tak... there is no straighting out here! Right before the runway there is a mountain which won't let you...

    why don't you google it? :D

  • @Felipe140396 Holy crap! Then that IS amazing... However much pilots get paid- it's not enough. LOL

  • IF THAT WAS THE CASE HE WOULD HAVE CRASHED THE PLANE !!!

  • @AvianWorldNet If what was the case?

  • That is routine tbh, all he did was a good landing in a crosswind...

  • Son of a bitch deserves a promotion.To a janitor ofc.

  • what is so brilliant about this landing. It should have been a go around!!! he almost crashed that plane!!!

  • Welington Airport, New Zealand.

  • @xfreakyxboyx666x Wtf, no this is Kai Tak in Hong Kong.

  • @Deltapilot96 asking?

  • ok

  • @Deltapilot96 4got quest mark

  • THE BEST PILOT!!! O.O

  • isnt ''pilot has skills'' its ''pilotS have skills''...

  • he had a 6pm date he couldn't miss

  • it is a normal heavy cross wind landing Brilliantly done in hong kong

  • Soooo....you're saying this is a normal landing lol!

  • Strange how the windsock is so limp for what are supposedly very windy conditions, now to be honest I haven't piloted anything in over twenty years and never anything larger than Cessnas, but I'd bet this ancient Chinese laptop that this guy turned final way too late and the results are as we see.

  • @francovance1 its not due to pilot error or wind. its due to the location of the airport. its basically in the middle of hong kong meaning that planes have to avoid the buildings on approach, which leads them to an s-shaped approach such as this one.

  • This pilot screwed up ... and really badly too.

    He was very lucky to get away with this without damaging the aircraft.

    This video makes me shudder every time I look at it.

  • Why does the moron not post a few seconds more?

  • "Hello this is your captain speaking, we are experiencing some weather difficulties and the flight attendants will come by to make sure you are safely buckled..... " WTF BOOM! "Thank you for flying with Hong Kong Air."

  • insane.

  • Crazy LA!!

  • THAT JUST LOOKED LIKE A GIANT HARRIER awesome

  • in flying we deal with facts and not your fuckin emotions mark!i wasnt there to pretend i could or couldnt do it...i dont know what led to the screw up buy the turn was not anticipated well enough in advance and they were lucky to get away with it...Captain might very well have taken over.On what account do you bet that I couldn't have done it?I have landed a Tristar there on several occasions with windier crosswinds.What have you ?...?Speak up!

  • @CaptenSmoochie why cant you just accept that he did a good job rather than finding all the things he did wrong, you may well have landed there, well done, but why cant you admit that this guy did well

  • it looks good to the layman's eyes and no doubt was a last minute salvage that would have otherwise required a Go Around. i dont know if you are a layman or a pilot but from a pilot we look at standards.De crabbing is about timing.If he got thye timing right he would have touched down with the upwind gear first as is the requisite technique.That kind of touch down imposes severe strain on the Landing gear.Look at that quartering tailwind...its not that much of a crosswind is it?an overshoot!

  • welcome to Hong Kong. (1996?)

  • more like course overshoot and desperate attempt to line up.Check the windsock-nothing alarming about it.Touchdown on downwind gear must have imposed some stress...if AIDS was installed..the pilot must have been bollocked...not layed!

    Looks spectacularly to the layman though!Full marks for that dramatic swing skip!

  • emmm! hold your horse viewers.THAT WAS A SCREWED UP LANDING!Am sure if you had popped in the cockpit soon after that INCIDENT you would have seen a red faced crew trying to hide their 'skilfull' heads under their hot collars!

    Fact 1) judging by that impotent like windsock...there was nothing extreme about the wind velocity.

    Fact2) whilst the Kaitak Landing can be a challenge-it looks like a course overshoot and last minute correction touching down downwind rather than upwind of the crosswind

  • @CaptenSmoochie why the fuck do you have to try so hard to make it seem easy, i bet you couldnt do it.

  • In flying we deal with facts and not your fuckin emotions mark!i wasnt there to pretend i could or couldnt do it...i dont know what led to the screw up buy the turn was not anticipated well enough in advance and they were lucky to get away with it...Captain might very well have taken over.On what account do you bet that I couldn't have done it?I have landed a Tristar there on several occasions with windier crosswinds.What have you ?...?Speak up!

  • Bravo! Another reason why pilots should be sober before flying and another reason why they drink AFTER flying!

    That was a superbly executed landing

  • Right

  • Big slip. :)

  • there was a problem with the plain's systems...it was very fast when about to land and it was a trick that was done by the Pilot to slow down the speed by lowering it side ways.... it was an act of a brave, intelligent and skillful pilot....Detailed documentry was made on it by NATIONAL GEOGHRAPHIC SOCIETY

  • @tawahdi: No, speed had nothing to do with it. Any qualified pilot can tell you that what was demontrated was one of two possible techniques for crosswind landings.  This one is known as the "crab" approach. The other is known as the "wing low" approach.

  • tres tres bon pilote

  • Crosswinds always bring the best out of pilots!

  • About a decade ago I saw a Korean Air 747 do a zoom climb off the runway at SFO. I was shocked. 747-400.

  • that pilot broke the landing gear at the left

  • @chrigiammann I get the impression most commercial pilots get kinda bored making their daily "runs" & any opportunity to REALLY fly their aircraft breaks the boring routine. See the guy practicing the 757 doing the zoom climb? The performance of airliners changes radically when unloaded with no passengers...making for a fun ride.

  • Or is it the whole aileron set?????The right side

  • Did you see him pop the spoilers on the starboard side wing just as he touched??? He knew he had to kill the lift on the right side so the crosswind wouldn't blow him over....wind getting under the right wing would have lifted the right & he'd have to go around.....wicked pilot skills. After he got all his gear settled you can see both side spoilers pop up.....watch the top of the right wing!

  • @RichardEllisxyz totally agree with you..these are some mad pilot skills! However, he didn't pop the spoilers "just as he touched". In the 747 the spoilers are used as ailerons as well. When touching down the computer will extend the spoilers automatically (when activated). Thesedays a pilot cannot extend the spoilers seperately...but nice thought there! :-)

  • He meant the markings on the plane were that of Korean Air.

  • wow koreans

  • @0kfresh8 koareans? where

  • "This Pilot Has Skills " Most defenitly not, this is a blooper. Landing on one set of gear on that angle is far to dangerous.

  • That pilot not only has skills, but balls of fricken diamond.

  • WoW he is so good pilots are the best??

  • Very funny comments Thanks

  • Now them pilots know how to fly!

  • i woudl let that pilot park my car

    watch my pilot training school video !

  • lol he probably fried one of those tyres on port side!!!

  • No, u guys are all wrong. The pilot did that to slow down the plane by increasing the drag, since passenger planes don't have flaps to do that themselves.

  • lol das würd ich auch schaffen so breit wie die Landebahn ist^^

  • glaub mir, bei 'ner 747-400 ist die größe der Bahn nichts wert... da is die bahn auch mal ganz schnell zu ende - unterschätze die geschwindigkeit beier Landung nicht von diesem monster!

  • its not that bad cause he turns into the aparent "wind" thats so "strong" but then he straightens up, if the wind was that strong, when he straighened up he woulda been blown right off the runway again

  • genuis, the thing weighs 250 tons.

  • Its not that windy, look at the sock at :05

    Just a bad landing, but that is a difficult approach. Hecka sideloaded it though.

  • not windy? its a crosswind evenworse

  • Did you see the wind sock? Do you know how to read one? As a pilot I can tell you I have landed in MUCH worse with less drama. Granted never flown a whale or one into HK, but it was a 15kts crosswind maybe, more like 10kts.

    Point being, this is a lot more dramatic than it had to be.

  • the Captain should have aborted the landing attempt. This landing is good, however it goes against everything pilots are taught about stabilized approaches. This approach to landing was terrible and they should have never attempted to force the landing unless it was an emergency.

  • Great job!

  • their good at landing and well experienced probably because most of the Korean Air pilots had training from the Korean Air-Force before since Korean born South Korean are drafted to the Army at the age of 20.

  • that is true youba3oo

  • all passengers left misterious brown stains on their sits after this. ha

  • @michaelmusica sure wasnt the in-flight pudding

  • and a quaint human fragrance befitting to deploy oxygen masks on full 100%O2 no doubt.Do cabin cleaners use vacuum hoses designed for humanitarian work?

  • 0:06 look at that thing glide. to defy gravity so smoothly is one of mankinds greatest feats.

  • Loks like no skill to me, had he had skills he wouldn't have ended up with his rear facing the runway

  • @davidson2 wow, do some research on aviation and flight and then talk. haha

  • Awesome.

  • I would replace the title:

    "This pilot has balls"

  • AHAHAHAHhahaha

  • If you are a Japanese pilot you MUST learn the perfect way to do a Crosswind landing.

  • ......yeah......all us cat D pilots r blind fuks. And ur right, we dont know shit .

    Easy ??? sonny , never done a sim session with a sadistic instructor , have ya ?

    Rules ? ya plonker ......jeeeze,....why bother ...

    Engines come off wings ! yeah ! good one , why didnt WE think of that ! Shit , r we dumb or what ?

    Engineering will want this pilots balls. So will management. If you DONT understand why, rack off...

  • pilots r trained to fly in cross winds, so i hear, where the plane comes in sideways and the pilot must straighten it out

  • @RYFO117 You are correct. I did it numerous times in the simulator before doing it in the aircraft.

  • its called a crosswind landing

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  • @tasman763 The engine never hit the ground you dumb fuck. This is a great landing. Maybe you should learn what the rules of aviation are before you tell us ok? I am a pilot and what that guy did there IS in our training. It's a little easier then it looks actually... So please, do everyone on here a favor and keep your stupidity to yourself.

  • prolly a cousin of sullenberger

  • whats the name of this airport? theres an air port over in the east where pilots HAVE to land like this, due to the elevation of the airport and the mountains keeping the plane from making a normal landing. instead the pilot has to go in and land on a 90degree turn.

  • @sirownage05

    Yeah this is the airport. It is the Kai Tak (VHHX) airport in Hong Kong that is now closed down because of the noise.

  • Yes it is noisy there especially when you are trying to land a plane, I think people ought to be more quiet when planes are trying to land.

  • I will never, ever complain about parking my oversized van in my litte, dinky driveway again!!!!

  • good job pilot

  • Guys, this is a very good pilot. Maybe there was a wind or something else. That's a good move.

  • and thats what we call "korean air"

  • god bless him

  • That Pilot definitely got laid that night by at least 2 hot stewardesses and one hot passenger.

  • lawl

  • Including a BJ from the president:P

  • @Taimak77 Oh really? Damn, i have to become a pilot right now! :-D

  • What makes you say that?

  • @Taimak77 - nice comment.

  • In flying we deal with facts and not your fuckin emotions mark!i wasnt there to pretend i could or couldnt do it...i dont know what led to the screw up buy the turn was not anticipated well enough in advance and they were lucky to get away with it...Captain might very well have taken over.On what account do you bet that I couldn't have done it?I have landed a Tristar there on several occasions with windier crosswinds.What have you ?...?Speak up!

  • skillage

  • aint this vid from someone else? i have seen it quite a few times too, it a crosswind landing at old's hong kong airport which, now was replaced by a new one with 2 runways. =,= stop copying others.

  • as well in 0:03 you can see wind flag which proof that it wasn't windy !!!

  • this is not skilled pilod, if he was, he would have normal approach, skilled would "go Around " and don't tell me that was crosswind, becaouse in crosswind you still fly straigh with rounway only position of the aircraft change, and in crosswind you make correction using rudder not controls !

  • lolz

  • smooth landing!!

  • LUCKY lol

  • notice that one wheel set takes the force of the plane landing, proves how good the hydraulics are. probably messes them up though.

  • If you think that is skill.......its a good job you aint a pilot

  • what..?

  • its a good job? nice grammar

  • you can even watch the last few secs right before the end of the vidoe ........even once landen on the runway he still vears off course....which u can tell is crosswind....once again .......fucktard (sry but i hate dicks who think they are right)

  • Haha, I have absolutely no idea on why you are rambling. I know it's a crosswind you moron. As a pilot myself, I would know just a tad bit more than you Mr. Expert RC pilot man.

    He started his procedure turn too late and the strong crosswind pushed him off course. It would have been much safer to go missed but he opted not to.

    I'm tired of seeing people glorifying a mistake.

  • the drifting skills involved above would put keiichi tsuchiya to shame!

  • wait, that looks like a -300 hump, with wingtips and a little bigger engines. is that the -400?

  • This pilot does not have skills. Absolutely not. He wouldn't have missed the turn so badly if he had "amazing skills."

    So stop people. Fucking idiots.

  • Called a crosswind buddy, if you've ever flown a plane in your life you'd understand.

  • Oh really now? A crosswind? That's what that was?

    I think I know what a goddamn crosswind is.

  • rippedwookie....how else can a plane fly like that.....its fucking crosswind u idiot......he is flying into the wind then turns to alighn with runway....and to say i know hardly anything about planes other than model rc airplanes........u sir are a fool.

  • xD............

  • Korean Air 747-300

  • It's a 400 you can see the winglets.

  • it's lump suggests it's a -200

  • It's "lump" is rather large and characteristic of that of a -400. Also, as chanman4rings stated, it has winglets, thus further verifying it's a -400.

  • OK, but, does the -300, -200 or -100 have winglets?

  • Not that I know of. That has always been the number 1 characteristic of telling the -400 apart from the rest.

  • how can people say "this isnt that hard" its a soundless video? you have no idea of what force the wind was! and as someone said below (not confirmed) it looks like a 747 which would make it much much harder.

  • this is not as hard as you think.

    all the pilot did was correct with the rudder pedals.

  • Haha 1337

  • Actually, a quite horrible crosswind landing.

  • amazing

  • Wow, now THAT's skill!!!!

  • look at wellington airport

  • DAMN thats a 747 must be a big bitch to land.

  • the full force of that landing was taken by just one set of wheels.

    amazing how it could hold all that weight

  • Augh. The old hong Kong airport was very infamous for how hard and dangerous it was to land. Good thing the new one is better :D

  • It's called a crosswind landing!

  • Whiteass, are you afraid to respond cause you are a little kid?

  • arguing on the internet, beyond dumb. You have entered the realm of the colossally retarded. Gratz.

  • I agree with Shiro. He Is right. And whiteass, I used to be MacFan2011 now I'm MacFan2012. I'm back to argue with you. First off, your a liar because you don't work for an airline and if you do, you only the senior captain. FAILURE! Also, no one cares about your son so don't bring him up again.

  • incredible! score one for the boys back home!

  • dude anybody can play flight simulater, and that is skills. lets see you try and land a passenger plane.

  • Wow, the planes wheels must be strong because it landed on one wheel (0:12 ) think of all the weight and forces, all on one wheel. : - ]

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  • Its not harder all you have to do is turn the rudder. My dad is a pilot and I think I would know how to turn a plane doing a crosswind landing. And you don't skillfully turn the rudder, you just turn it. Duh

  • haha, if you don't mind i have been a pilot for 23 years now, nearly 24 and trust me that takes skill. You can not make comments on something you have never done. Belive me you couldn't do that. Danny Sarath, Senior Captain, Emirates airlines

  • Well obviously, Emirates airlines doesn't teach there pilots right, or your just stupid. And no body cares about your six year old son, because anyone can land a 747-400 in flight sim. Plus your son probably has it on autopilot or you are helping him with the joystick. I will check with my resources to see if you really are a pilot. Oh bull, I could do that better than you.

  • haha of course they dont teach their pilots properly???

  • Yeah, obviously. Or your just a stupid white ass. And you don't sound like an adult either. You keep using "haha".

  • ok call me Danny, and are adults not allowed to say "haha"?, and ok, i am stupid, a BA Honors degree in Mechanics, 5 O-levels,same as A-Levels, and an ATPL, and a job with one of the worlds best airlines, ok i am stupid pal

  • Anyone can say what their job is online it isn't hard to type. here watch....

    I'm a Professional Game designer working with the world best Game Producers. >_> see? it isn't hard so don't brag.

  • i beg your pardon sir, ok, i shouldn't have to prove myself to people o don't even know, but on this occasion i shall. Add me on bebo, just look for Danny sarath, i think its sad that people actually think i would lie about my career, BUT there you go. add me

  • dam man mad respect

  • This isn't skill, its called turning the rudder. Duh.

  • Wrong,it's called "crosswind landing by skillfuly turning the rudder that saves 150 lifes".Now that's a bit harder :P

  • i am sorry but are you a pilot?, are you?, no so go and play on flight simulator little boy, my 6 year old son can land a 747-400 in the 200kt winds on flight sim, but he couldn't do it in real life.

  • nooo, do they hell, they just let us play on flight simulator until we can land a plane, then let us fly there a340's. You immature little boy, you have never flown a proper aircraft, by that i mean a commercial aircraft, and i might add, never will.

  • this man has stupendous skills at flying...

  • this type of landing is called crosswind landing which every pilot should know ....this is basics for every pilot. but to do this type of landing very good and easy u have to be pretty experienced. im 15 years old and i can play flight simulator x on my laptop on hardest difficulity =-D

    being a pilot is my dream job. got to hard work....

  • But it's a crosswind landing at Kaï Tak... it's more difficult to another airport :D

    I'm 15years old too and i pilot in ivao in fsx.

  • nice but he got lucky his landing gear didn't break because he landed pretty heavy on that left side