Rough Landing

This is at the old Kai Tak airport in Hong Kong.
This airport was notorious for the crazy approach pilots had to make on final. The Alitalia MD-11 landing shown here was pretty common as far as landings went at Kai Tak.

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[Freenelsonmandela]

My dad was piloting the Cathay Pacific jumbo that you see at the start of this video, and subsequently witnessed this landing live.

Apparently there was silence from the surrounding planes immediately following the landing, presumably while all of them gasped at what they had just witnessed.

Finally, one of them broke the silence with a loud "MAMMA MIA!!!", much to everyone's amusement (perhaps with the exception of the Italian pilots)!

[latenesatroden86]

@xxxxcocotazoxxxx Alitalia = Italy , Kai Tak = Hong Kong, where are the Russians there?

[chrispikeyp]

some great inforamtion here thanks

[clairebehun]

love the video man

[Popeye23102011]

@Freenelsonmandela You obviously have not been inside a 747 cockpit. Your dad would not be able to watch it live, as they touched down way down the runway, by then the landing would be out of sight! So much for witnessing it "live"

[hiffenmark2]

@aceridgey

The aircraft looks very much like a freighter, so hopefully there were no passengers on board, but I'm sure the flight crew was scared shitless. the more often I see the video, the more I'm shouting "go around!" Narita FedEx disaster was later, but showed, what wind shear can do to a MD 11.

[hiffenmark2]

@thegilles6

Is'nt a go around a better option? This landing must have scared the shit out of the flight crew.

[hiffenmark2]

@MrDBater

Thank you for your very good comment. They were very lucky not to perform the FedEx Narita disaster. The MD 11 is a very special a/c with high approach speeds, about 160 kts. with full flaps, especially as a heavy loaded freighter.

[hiffenmark2]

@DannyVids11

Imposible, because this Alitalia MD 11 lokks very much like a freighter and not a passenger plane and all flight crew members have to be on their positions with safety belts fixed to their seats

[9753241860hb]

@HamburgAirport They're actually Italian pilots and the plane is American, the wings of the plane (MD 11) are very short compared to the length of the plane and in windy days landings were difficult, and to add to all that the airport itself is a challenge to land there lol.