Amazing Feats Of Aviation: DHL Baghdad

AVweb's Glenn Pew http://www.glennpew.com reports on the Nov. 22, 2003 incident -- a A DHL crew flying out of Baghdad airport was forced to land their Airbus A300 without any controllable flight surfaces after being hit with a surface to air missile. This video was produced by Glenn Pew http://www.glennpew.com/

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• dhl
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• missile
• crash
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• baghdad

[airbusandmustang]

I think this crash is 100x better than the Hudson River crash of US Airways flight 1549. This is so much more amazing.

[yevinketman]

I agree with you but this incident will never receive the same recognition.

1) It was a cargo plane with no passengers to have been saved (removes the "hero" worship scenario)

2) Happened in Baghdad, far away from most of us.

3) There are very few images of it available. 1549 has video of the landing and rescue.

Not at all to take away from 1549 (that one was also very cool), but this incident was one of the most amazing feats in the history of aviation.

[itsmefergal]

Any chance of getting these guys to fly CIVILIAN Big Jets instead of CARGO. Think of the lives that are at risk if they are still flying cargo jets. I going on holidays later on this year and I was just wondering CAN I BOOK THEM ASAP.!!!!

[burnrider2001]

Their landing must have been cushioned by their HUGE GIANT ENORMOUS balls! I vote Ballsiest motherfuckers ever award!

[FrapsYou]

skillful pilots.

[navyocs]

@SupaCurry Well it does not replace the engineer even though his position is technically gone. yes there is more automation but through crew resource management the pilots can still crossfeed the fuel but you may be right sometimes its better to have two guys up there other times it helps to have a third set of eyes.

[navyocs]

Hahahahahahaha you motherfuckers couldn't shoot em down. Shows your lack of skill even though the ones responsible will never see this, fuck you and do me a favor! DIEEEE!!!! Nice flying gentleman.

[aliasnode2]

after mobius one left the ISAF, he became a commercial airline pilot

[SupaCurry]

If the Flight Engineer was replaced by a computer, I wonder if the result would still have been the same.

[acegambit54]

@MilesB1975 i would of

[VoodooPolitico]

That is pretty wild. I know that I dont ever want to win a "memorial" award.

[iamjet172]

Not this time Darwin.