Lufthansa Airbus A320 wingstrike at Hamburg during Emma

Someone else shot this video of a Lufthansa Airbus A320 on a flight from Munich to Hamburg which hits the left wingtip and almost drags the right engine on runway 33 during extreme weather and gusting crosswinds caused by storm Emma.
Picture here http://bjones4.com/temp/LH.jpg

Aircraft are certified to land in steady crosswinds (around 30 knots/55 km per hour) and crews are trained for this and do practice maximum crosswind landings in the simulator several times per year. The crosswind component at the time was around 20 to 25 knots which is within the croswind limitation of the aircraft.

Storms like this one called "Emma" on the 1st of March 2008 with high winds and gusts are however very demanding on the crew.

Initially they had the required crab angle but during the transition from crab to slip (upwind wing has to be low) the pilot did not get enough right wing down and caught a severe gust during the touchdown maneuver. The gust then lifted the wing which is why the aircraft rolled to the left and drifted across the runway. They are lucky they didn't cartwheel.

The only correct option at this point was to go around. They landed about 20 minutes later on a different runway without further incident.

Over 70 flights were canceled in Frankfurt due to the storm Emma on 1st of March 2008.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Airbus
• pilot
• storm
• Emma
• crosswind
• weather
• landing
• scarry
• B737
• A320
• A319
• wingtip
• crash
• Hamburg

[ClownFight]

Does it matter what sex the pilot was?

Can you fly an Airbus with your penis?

Are you practicing right now and typing with your left hand? Yes, I thought so.

[DaNeon83]

copilot was a 24year old girl, she was in charge of the airbus. in germany they are discussing right now what could have happened and who is to blame for that. typically german ;)

[UkieStudios]

@CaptWindShear Most European companies require you to land on the first time and land no matter what. They're a lot stricter than the American companies. This guy also hit full power before wheels down, but the spool up time on those engines is massive and part of the reason for this happening. Lotta bad things lead to stuff like this.

[nhand42]

The A320 automatically transitioned from FLIGHT mode to GROUND mode when the right wheel touched down briefly, despite the plane still being airborne. GROUND mode halves the controls - which makes for smoother landings - but in this case meant the pilots couldn't correct for the sudden wind gusts.

[CaptWindShear]

Despite the comment in the description... That is a good 20º WCA. At a sea level airport, Vapp I estimate at 135 Kt (nominal correction included) for a 60 tonne LW, gives us 135 x Sin(20º) = 46 Kt crosswind component. The A320's limit is 38 Kt crosswind component, including gusts. They should not even have attempted this.

[Hutcho12]

@TheStreberClub1428

Er macht einen Witz. Bonus is, at least you showed your "Germanness" through lack of the understand of sarcasm, which was probably more funny than the original joke.

[Hutcho12]

@TheStreberClub1428

Er macht einen Witz. Bonus is, at least you showed your "Germanness" through lack of the understand of sarcasm, which was probably more funny than the original joke.

[TheStreberClub1428]

DaNeon83!

Typisch deutsche?

Was soll das denn bitte? als ob die anderen Länder nie Fehler machen würden oder?

Frag dich doch mal wie du dich in so einer Situation verhalten würdest!

Echt solche Leute, die solche Vorurteile haben nerven mich!

[alexfair8589]

@rumbleforce i'd be interested in looking at your criteria for a 'good pilot' lol. Why the hell would you try to land in such conditions?

[vdbniels]

@trollydodger No, Hamburg is located in the north of Germany. Zurich is the capital of Switserland. The runway in the vid is EDDH (Hamburg) 33.

[trollydodger]

thanks this is very interesting. just a few questions, please answer :) , is hamburg airport also the zurich airport? which runway was this too? thanks

[enzio81]

i was there  fuck!