Qantas A380 Cancellation of 1st Landing Attempt in Auckland

[wekiwisdofly]

good thing wellington airport is too small to allow a 747 to land there with those crazy winds

[jjjazzycraig]

that was maverick...and he wanted to do a flyby...but the pattern was full...

[petrhsr]

It's called going around. It happens many times every day, at airports all over the world. It is standard operating procedure for a missed approach. 

[kozarac5]

@onecunningfox - I'm pretty sure the A380 can handle crosswinds. They wouldn't put out a plane onto the market that can't land with crosswinds. Plus, they go through a hell of a lot of tests. Just search on YouTube if you don't believe me.

[salvatorearcilesi]

der aller grösste wird heute von der lufthansa .......übernommen

[Aussiephil99]

I'd hardly call it an aborted landing the aircraft must have been at 1000-1500ft as it flew over!

[VIR092]

It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's the Australian Flying Whale! Yipee! Watch the oversized Airbuster become overtaken by crosswind potential...I wonder how autoland would help in a fifty-knot crosswind? That'd be different.

[usorensen01]

I've seen them done tests landing the A380 in heavy crosswinds at Keflavik, Iceland...

[usorensen01]

I believe they have done tests landing in heavy crosswinds in Keflavik, Iceland...

[NZpilot12]

it was an aborted landing. I was there listening to tower.

[RNZAF757SC]

ZKNBW is correct. PLUS I LOVE ZK-NBW i got to go in the cockpit :D

[donhur]

ya that just looks like a fly by to show off the plane

[Nzeddy]

The Qantas A380 ABORTED LANDING due to "Windshear"

[kiwipilot84]

If it was a fly buy not a go around i wonder why he had the gear down- Hey NBW nice name, obviously a air nz 74419 fan, do u fly ur self.

[HelloGermanKiwi]

Thanks for comments here. TV NZ have rated it on their news as an aborted landing. I haven't been in the cockpit or the tower either. So unfortunately, I am not in the position to confirm - however, the plane was really low and you could hear the engines reving up when the plane took off again!

[antipants94]

no it definitely was an aborted landing, you can tell because just at the beginning, the landing gears are retracting, after going down for landing.

[ZKNBW]

It wasn't a aborted landing. It was just doing a pass, which it was supposed to when it took off, but there were too many planes landing at the time.

[JALAirNZQantas]

@ZKNBW It was aborted due to windshear, I was listning to the tower