When the Job becomes Dangerous...

[Michael Carter]

She's a heck of a pilot for as little experience as she must have under her belt.

Kept her head about her too I'd imagine.

[Lezam]

Wonder if they said the "we hope you enjoyed your flight" part

[dodiano]

That explains it all it was a SHE at the controlos!! LOL!! Kidding guys...

Roberto

Heres some more pictures of scraping the runway and the actual wingtip damage.

Btw the pilot flying was a 24 yr old female F/O

Stef





the PF

[Matt Olieman]

After looking at the video several times and looking at the pics again... I finally realized why the left wing went down. I'm little slow in my old age

This is probably what happened......

Left (probably almost full) rudder, aircraft yaws left (hard/extreme), Left wing looses lift, right wing lift increases lift, and probably coming in a little fast to compensate for turbulence. Then of course the opposite happens when correcting the situation.

I agree with dodiano, with that much of a crab and winds, should of gone around before reaching the threshold.

[Bob Reed]

Seems to me the Capitan should have made the call... I mean that is why he (or she) is the Capitan, right? And we do have to remember that we where not in the cockpit so we do not really know what went on... But the "BOX" does..... The fact she got it back in the air... Yes she kept her head about her... Or the Capitan took over.. Again as of now we do not know....

[aviaparts]

Well a few considerations about the previous posts, I seriously doubt that it was the co-pilot that landed this plane. Most airlines have regulations that in case of rough X-winds landings only the Captain is allowed to land, simply because they are the only ones who have 'severe' X-wind training.

And for all of us, it is easy to give critics on should or should not. If you look at the video, it is 1 extreme gust that blows the plane to the side up until that point the pilot was perfectly in controll. My two cents, little damage, no injuries, **** happens so credit to the pilot's (whoever was in controll)

[Geremy Britton]

i agree with marnix - i'm sure there ar regulations that are followed so to make sure the PIC is in control on severe landings.

P.s i would have thought the fact that the plane blew right across the width of the runway was when the PIC steeped off the rudder making the plane correct itself making a sidways movment over the entire width of the runway.

[Matt Olieman]

i agree with marnix - i'm sure there ar regulations that are followed so to make sure the PIC is in control on severe landings.

P.s i would have thought the fact that the plane blew right across the width of the runway was when the PIC steeped off the rudder making the plane correct itself making a sidways movment over the entire width of the runway.

In extreme cases like this and not counting on company policy and you were determined to land, for whatever reason. It would go like this.... main gear on ground, get rid of that lift (auto spoilers), then (in this case) left rudder as the nose comes down it should be center lined straight with runway when nose touches down.

Matt O.

[Bob Reed]

In extreme cases like this and not counting on company policy and you were determined to land, for whatever reason. It would go like this.... main gear on ground, get rid of that lift (auto spoilers), then (in this case) left rudder as the nose comes down it should be center lined straight with runway when nose touches down.

Matt O.

hehehe Done this a few times Matt??

[Goose]

It looks like she get gust wind on flare.