Almost Disasterous Landing

Sequence, from top left to bottom right, of six stills from LiveLeak footage made available on Monday March 3, 2008 showing a plane attempting to make an emergency landing at Hamburg Airport on Saturday.


It wasn't an emergency until after the attempt.

What happens in any airplane, and particularly swept wings, when you stomp left rudder? It rolls left.

The upwind runway, 29, should have been used on the first attempt, as it was on his second and successful attempt.

Al G CFIAMI

"Al G" wrote in message ...

Sequence, from top left to bottom right, of six stills from LiveLeak footage made available on Monday March 3, 2008 showing a plane attempting to make an emergency landing at Hamburg Airport on Saturday.


It wasn't an emergency until after the attempt.

What happens in any airplane, and particularly swept wings, when you stomp left rudder? It rolls left.

The upwind runway, 29, should have been used on the first attempt, as it was on his second and successful attempt.

Al G CFIAMI



Excuse me, the upwind runway, 33 should have been used.

From the piloting group, the Wx:

EDDH 011220Z 29028G48KT 9000 -SHRA FEW011 BKN014 07/05 Q0984 TEMPO
29035G55KT 4000 SHRA BKN008

The incident happened at 13:55 local time
The flight LH 044 (D-AIQP), an A320 from MUC (Munich)
The landing runway was 23 LOC-DME (ATIS gave no other option)
after the go-around the pilots elected runway 33 also LOC-DME approach
and landed safely but minus the left winglet...
immediately after the incident ATIS gave runway 23 and 33 as well


Al G