Impressive A380 crosswind landing

[Steve Jones]

Actual imagery of the landing only starts about halfway through, after the ads etc!

From the Oshkosh Airshow, I believe

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/excl..._200850-1.html

[Sarmad Al-Khozaie]

Another A380 Bashing......

[Matt_L]

"not the best foot forward for Airbus but probably looks like the plane will still be usable"

I'm a Boeing man through and through but that is just funny coming from a B777 pilot supposedly. I actually thought he was talking about something not related to aviation regarding the landing, like a sporting event?

It was sure a hard landing but with a direct crosswind and the added pressure of the crowd makes it more justifiable- some could say though if it was the influence of the crowd the experienced pilots were practising bad TEM- threat and error management!

Remember though the only thing that matters- a good landing is one you can walk away from (unless of course your flying a 300 million dollar machine for one of the biggest aircraft manufacturers)

[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.