Impressive A380 crosswind landing

[Seth Jaworski]

I saw the landing yesterday and it didn't really look all that dramatic.
It certainly has been a huge crowd favourite, with the average wait time of about 2 hours for most of today! Personally I thought the flying display by the Virgin Galactic Mothership was much more exciting.

[Matt N.]

They're lucky it wasn't a 787 - with a landing like that both wings would have snapped clean off

[Sarmad Al-Khozaie]

Sarmad - Please don't quote the entire post directly above, use the reply function instead -mod.


So true, then that will give boeing fans something to be quiet about, but keeps getting delayed every month so who knows.

[Craig Murray]

Landing looked pretty reasonable to me, the illusion of the runway markings reflecting off the underside of the wings/flaps certainly makes it look like the aircraft "drops" suddenly so to speak.

Great landing on what looks to be quite a narrow runway, you can see the No. 2 and 3 engines look to overhang almost outside the flight strip. The width would certainly explain the rudder movements to keep the aircraft on the centreline.

[Scott Lindsell]

Originally Posted by Matt N.

They're lucky it wasn't a 787 - with a landing like that both wings would have snapped clean off

Now that's funny

[Mike W]

Just not very witty

[D Chan]

that did look pretty hard... the wing bounce was amazing.

[Gerard M]

He said something at the end like it looks like the aircraft will still be useable? Don't they factor these sort of things into the design and durability of an aircraft, clearly not so they happen every day? One hard landing wouldn't send it to the scrap yard would it or require an overhaul etc etc? Or does that sort of strain especially on the wings exagerate stressing of the wings and all the other aspects that go along with it?

[Sarmad Al-Khozaie]

if F-WWOW was used then all is ok, WOWW is a test bed aircraft that will not see a life in any airline.