Extreme crosswind landing at ZRH

[jyokid]

That was nuts. Fantastic job to the pilot!

[amc3]

That flight crew earned their salary that day for sure. Im assuming it went on toilet roll!!!

Superb video, thanks for sharing it.

[VGN737]

Fuck...a strong wind,this pilot is brave :) Nice one bro

[tauseef7061]

damn! for a second i thought that was an RC plane.

[DetEJagDe]

Whaaaow nice!

[PhotographerJan]

Awesome video! The pilots must have had some stress!

[paulinusa8]

Does anybody knows about the smell inside the plane thereafter ??

[etiennedauphin]

That was a very nice approach, fun to watch. Would have loved to be in the cockpit and watch the pilot deal with it. Fortunately for him, winds calmed down a bit over the runway, except for a little surprise gust at 0:39.

[NeveruN]

@etiennedauphin The reason for the calm winds right over the runway is because of a little thing called ground effect.

[jyokid]

@NeveruN Ground effect has nothing to do with wind. It has to do, primarily, with the ground preventing wingtip vorticies from reaching the upper surface of the wing. This prevents the vorticies from destroying lift at the wingtips, thereby "creating" more lift. The lighter winds at the surface is most likely due to the wind being blocked by obstacles such as buildings or trees.

[adama340]

What a pilot!! :D

[KennethMixson]

UP,UP,DOWN,UP,LEFT,LEFT,RIGHT,­DOWN,RIGHT,LEFT,UP,DOWN,DOWN,R­IGHT!!!!!!!

[Frequent777Flyer]

Insane!

[bulkocrew]

What a great pilot, I would happily fly with him/her! :P

[vladidaddy88]

Do it if you know u can, you'll have to come right back through it.....comes with experience to know what you can or can't do....

[theimmelman]

I've never seen an aircraft encounter that and still proceed with the landing. Remarkable!

[ATLMD88]

I'd say that was an unacceptable flight path deviation and uncontrolled changes from normal steady state flight conditions and all below 1,000'. I fly 767s. That'd been a required go-around for us if we looked like tht.

To each his own but I'd say this, given those changes on short final you either ignored a serious condition and pressed on with a compromised landing or you just weren't fighting it very well. Either way, not good. Talk to the folks on AMR 1420 about trying to force a landing.

[jjjazzycraig]

@ATLMD88 u r a party pooper

[prglg]

And, at the end, a nice touchdown!!!!

[dalkmaar]

shouldn't he be landing on one of the other 2 runways with this much crosswind?

[AshChapman777]

I love watching skilled pilots in action :)

[yanahamlett]

@geminijets601

no, the insurance company

[pisanganjing77]

" That's a FAIL."

????  Depends on whether your definition of a stabilised approach is the same as that used by commercial pilots. Ours:- 1) In the landing config, 2) approach thrust set, 3), landing checklist complete, 4) speed within certain limits, 5) on the correct vertical profile. No reason to think, from the video, that the King Air was not complying with all these, even IF the operator was required to.

Strong x-wind usually stabilises low down anyway, as happened here. Calm down!

[planefreak6]

Wow, this pilot is good.

[JetMechMA]

He continued an unstabilized approach. That's a FAIL. He should have declared missed approach and bugged outta there. I saw the same thing happen to a United Airlines 737 coming in at Indianapolis. They were swatted down and we all gasped, it was that dramatic in person. The pilot called, "We're goin missed." and they bugged out. The tower immediately closed the runway and re-routed everyone to a better runway.

[superfestiva]

freaking awesome video dude!!!! it literally jumped in the air!!!!!!

[11replay11]

OMG:. windshear ahead.. caution.. great video

[jbrooks1111]

Pilot had to work for that one.

[Rainbow975]

alder die beach baron oder was das is wird ja förmlich weggepustet

[hotyute]

0:08 lol epic 5/5

[weloo7777]

very scary video

[slickjosh12]

great piolet but scrad the crap out of me lol

[futurepilot2394]

WOW! that damn plane looked like a toy plane hangiing off a string and being blown at the same time!!!!!!!!! SICK VID DUDE 5/5!!!

[kingairflyer6]

At 0:16 it was awesome to see how this king air "jumped" in the wind!!! Great video 5*

[flyhellomd90]

Thank you very much! Yes, it was really incredible!