Jet Nearly Crashes at Hamburg Airport

R. · 03 Mar 2008, 20:06

Here's some footage of a Airbus A 320 attempting to land at Hamburg's airport during a wind storm on Saturday.
That's some pretty scary stuff.

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SamCat · 03 Mar 2008, 20:27

Betty dont watch this, its too scary!! And with 4 flights in 3 weeks i'm kinda wishing i hadn't!!

sexyeyes_jo · 03 Mar 2008, 20:30

thats really put me off flying

**Monstro** · 03 Mar 2008, 20:34

Bloody good pilot though!!!!

*AndyK* · 03 Mar 2008, 20:42

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Originally Posted by Monstro

Bloody good pilot though!!!!

Too right, there's a guy who deserves a pay rise! I hope he's piloting all my flights from now on!

Surprised Air Traffic Control let them even let them start final approach in those coniditions though!

R. · 03 Mar 2008, 20:44

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Originally Posted by AndyK

Surprised Air Traffic Control let them even let them start final approach in those coniditions though!

Actually, that's pilot's decision.

Betty · 03 Mar 2008, 20:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by SamCat

Betty dont watch this, its too scary!! And with 4 flights in 3 weeks i'm kinda wishing i hadn't!!

Watched it already on Saturday hon, it´s ok really. Got a friend who used to work at that airport for a while so he was pretty fast with finding the sites that are giving information about it and so I was shown a few scary pics (the wing had more than just a few scratches...

) from what happened aswell but they had been taken offline after the press found out about this.
The pilot did a bloody great job!!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by R.

Actually, that's pilot's decision.

Exactly, that´s it

these are the only ones I found so far... as I said, every other proper pic that showed too much was taken offline...

**Diane** · 03 Mar 2008, 21:26

Cheers R. ... I'm flying tomorrow!

Diane

Betty · 03 Mar 2008, 23:43

http://thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article870650.ece

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Originally Posted by Diane

Cheers R. ... I'm flying tomorrow!

Diane

You´ll be fine

duke knooby · 04 Mar 2008, 00:02

the key word is ALMOST... and i agree... that pilot deserves a payrise

(and you wonder why i don't like flying)

**Monstro** · 04 Mar 2008, 00:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by Betty

Watched it already on Saturday hon, it´s ok really. Got a friend who used to work at that airport for a while so he was pretty fast with finding the sites that are giving information about it and so I was shown a few scary pics (the wing had more than just a few scratches...

) from what happened aswell but they had been taken offline after the press found out about this.
The pilot did a bloody great job!!!

Exactly, that´s it

these are the only ones I found so far... as I said, every other proper pic that showed too much was taken offline...

Like I said before, the pilot was amazing, that was an incredible recovery from what could have been so much worse. Looked close, didn't realise he'd actually scraped the ground....that's a two medal job that is.

Battybarb · 04 Mar 2008, 00:34

Really scary to watch,ive never flown,ive got a really bad phobia about flying and keep
being told i should fly,a friend of mine has worked for BA for 25 years and is now a percer
and she has never been in an emergency situation,so that does say a lot for flying,will
give it a go one day.

03 Mar 2008, 20:27	#2
SamCat Hello Harry!!!! Join Date: 11.09.2006 Location: London Posts: 3,086	Betty dont watch this, its too scary!! And with 4 flights in 3 weeks i'm kinda wishing i hadn't!!

03 Mar 2008, 20:30	#3
sexyeyes_jo Mrs Mouse Join Date: 17.05.2005 Location: Liverpool Posts: 4,633	thats really put me off flying

03 Mar 2008, 20:34	#4
Monstro Promoted to Wario's spellchecker Join Date: 17.09.2005 Location: London Posts: 12,947	Bloody good pilot though!!!!

03 Mar 2008, 21:26	#8
Diane Super Moderator Join Date: 04.02.2003 Location: Guernsey, Channel Islands Posts: 3,462	Cheers R. ... I'm flying tomorrow! Diane

04 Mar 2008, 00:02	#10
duke knooby Mega Loafer Join Date: 24.06.2005 Location: belfast Posts: 17,889	the key word is ALMOST... and i agree... that pilot deserves a payrise (and you wonder why i don't like flying)

04 Mar 2008, 00:34	#12
Battybarb Nutty Tart From Hell Join Date: 25.05.2007 Location: liverpool Posts: 8,390	Really scary to watch,ive never flown,ive got a really bad phobia about flying and keep being told i should fly,a friend of mine has worked for BA for 25 years and is now a percer and she has never been in an emergency situation,so that does say a lot for flying,will give it a go one day.