Ze German short field landing.

[Todd Hendry]

Interesting short field landing.

http://shar.es/cbjWV

Todd.

[Michael Cleary]

Undershot, but got away with it.

Even then, it landed well before the marked Threshold.

[David N]

:eek:

Misjudged it big time.
At 543 metres there should have been enough for him to make a full stop landing would it not?

Assuming he was empty

[Jim M]

Oops! Very close to being very nasty.

Jim

[James S.]

https://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=Ballenstedt&hl=en&ll=51.745134,11.232426&spn=0.005746,0.016512&sll=51.72056,11.39817&sspn=1.471806,4.22699&t=h&hnear=Ballenstedt,+Saxony-Anhalt,+Germany&z=17

The runway is by no means long at all, and the C-160 is a pretty large aircraft, hence why not touching down on the piano keys I guess, he was probably looking to touch down at the first or second arrows to be safe? :confused:

Still misjudged it by a bit of a margin though, If I remember correctly, there was a Vanguard landing at a museum in the UK that did the same thing, (on a very short runway for its size as well) and when the pilots saw the tire tracks, they brushed it off with a laugh!

[David N]

The runway is by no means long at all, and the C-160 is a pretty large aircraft, hence why not touching down on the piano keys I guess, he was probably looking to touch down at the first or second arrows to be safe?

Other Youtube clips would indicate the C-160 has STOL capabillities to have made the landing with room to spare.

[Grahame Hutchison]

The pilot was late for an appointment with his optometrist.

[Bernie P]

^^ Or early, given where he (tried to ) land...!! :D

[James S.]

Other Youtube clips would indicate the C-160 has STOL capabillities to have made the landing with room to spare.

C-160 landing distance is listed as 580 m.

[Michael Cleary]

Its a bit difficult to tell, but to me that road looks to be marginally higher than the end of the runway - perhaps why the Threshold is displaced further down. Just as well there was no fence and no vehicle was passing on the road too.

[Andre R.]

The C-160D Transall was designed to land on extreme rough terrain.
Out of memory, the Luftwaffe Transalls encountered harder landing in Somalia in 1985 on food supply missions.
One even hit a donkey on a gravel landingstrip and reduced it to roadkill.

[David N]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2253449/Plane-spotting-enthusiasts-come-inches-death-military-aircraft-misses-runway.html