Filmed from the checkerboard used for the approach into Kai Tak. Overshoots and then lines it up just to get caught in the wind…again. Unedited. You can hear another enthusiast in the background with a scanner. A Japan Air Lines JAL Boeing 747.
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This is a compilation of my short snippet videos short from Kowloon city under the approach path to Hong Kong’s Kai Tak airport in 1998. They were uploaded individually 2 years ago, but are much easier to watch this way. http://www.kaitak.tv
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The plane was fighting the wind as it came in and never lowered it’s gear. Hit the runway and slid all the way to the end of the runway into the fence. I was surprised, it went further down the runway on it’s belly than on it’s wheels. (I suppose brakes cause more friction than smooth aluminum.)
No one was hurt. The Pilot claimed he was so worried and distracted by the crosswind that he forgot about the landing gear.
This is the 5th accident here in 3 weeks associated with our unusual high winds. 3 crashes, unfortunately, resulted in fatalities.
I’ve never been witness to a fatal crash, despite working at an airport for close to 10 years, thank God for small favors. I have seen a couple of gear up landings, both Baron drivers that for whatever reason simply forgot to extend the landing gear. The sound of propellers hitting concrete is very loud.
And I got to watch as a friend had the NLG of his Merlin II snap away on landing. I reached the airplane before the fire crews did.
And I lost a friend to an off airport crash when he took off in his V-35 with his fuel selector set to a tank that only had about 6 min’s worth of fuel in it.
In a seperate incident, I’ve had to quarantine my FBO’s avgas trucks for inspection and go deal with an aircraft owner’s hysterical wife.
I’ve lost a coworker to a bird strike while he was giving a lesson; leaving behind a wife and infant.
It sucks, but it happens, and it’ll keep happening without regard to any practices we put in place to try to minimize it. Currently, all we can do is minimize incidents and injury; it’s unfortunate, but crashes will continue to happen, pilots will continue to make an erroneous judgment or just have brain farts.
Training, intimacy with the airplane, and discipline with regards to obeying the checklists is the only thing I can think of that will help abate the disasters.
WOW! This is a pretty cool video of a 777 & 747 SP landing in a cross winds down in Brazil. This little item shows the Boeing factory determining the demonstrated crosswind landing limits on the 777 and the 747SP. The engineers make educated guesses, but then the test crews have to go actually prove the numbers. They sneak off to Brazil to do these tests at a certain remote BAF airbase famous for its continual atrocious crosswinds…Should the gear sideloads be excessive and fold one up, there is nobody there to take nasty pix for the Airbus guys to wave around in the press.
This is some good piloting in getting these planes down. It comes close to “incredible”…. tire change anybody????
If you haven’t seen these it’s pretty amazing to watch planes of this size crab walking in on a landing. I can hear the whole crew and the pilot just yelling “Yeehaaaa” at the top of their lungs.
Note the rudder action on landing.
PS: I suspect that the pilot and co pilot are wearing Depends.
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What’s the point of an airplane doing a touch and go landing?
and also
Why do the window shades have to be up on take off and landing?
Cheers!
A touch and go landing is just a way for the pilot to practice landing. The difficult part of landing is getting your approach angle correct, and keeping the runway lined up if there is a crosswind. After the pilot touches the runway, he just goes back up and does it all over again. Just practice.
As for the window shades, one main reason is for motion sickness. Most people experience motion sickness when they feel like they are moving, but can’t see anything around them moving. When in an airplane, it is fairly smooth except for accelerating and climbing while taking off, and descending and stopping while landing. The windows need to be open during those times so that people can see outside and see movement.
The secondary reason is for safety. You can see what is happening outside. In in a crash situation all you really care about is the nearest exit.
WOW, what an amazing beast! I will never ever forget this day. To see this beast this close just takes your breath away.
HD video here: http://vimeo.com/1290813
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