An American Airlines flight was seen drifting, dipping and bouncing as its crew struggled to make a safe landing at Heathrow International Airport in London Wednesday morning. FULL STORY: bit.ly/4ayDTt1
Are you kidding me!? As an airline pilot myself that is an automatic go around. They risked the lives of the passengers attempting to still land. Absolutely disgusting.
This guy is brilliant and he runs his BigJet TV channel - records all this live in a field next to LHR runway. He's a real Londoner and Brit with his humour and his way of talking: "Ooh ooh, easy, easy, go on my son" etc. We love him. So many sour voices in this comment section. He's having a larf and we all like that in the UK. He's also very knowledgeable. Many of the pilots know of him. One asked for a video of a brilliant landing to be sent to his mum!
Captain: What was that?? First officer: I saw a banana peel on the runway and wanted to avoid it without going around. Passengers: God forgive me for I am a sinner.
While watching this video, my stomach was in knots and was screaming and praying from my couch! Sick by the time the plane landed. Great video and commentary. The poor pilots, staff and passengers. Grateful for a safe landing.
I was on that plane and it felt WAY more terrifying than it looked! And to make matters worse, we circled the airport for about 30 minutes and went in for the wild landing with no announcement from the pilot. We were all sitting around in silence wondering what the hell was going on.
Holding before going into Heathrow is a daily, normal occurrence, regardless of weather just due to traffic volume. If this was runway 27R there are warnings about turbulent air in the touch down zone when the wind is out of the southwest as it blows across the buildings. His recovery looked good with one exception, as the airplane came up, he gave it a hard push and just missed smashing the nose gear into the runway first, that could have been catastrophic, but they saved it. I’m sure it was quite thrilling for passengers and crew alike.
Wow I know it was terrifying just looking at it.😬People think the commentator is overreacting but I have never seen a plane that big land so hard. And I’ve looked at quite a few plane videos. Thank God you all landed safely.
Anyone who doesn’t think this was a great landing isn’t a pilot. They saved what would have otherwise been a wake induced Go-Around. They did amazing and I would have loved to been on this flight.
This is one way to see it, however the correct way is the following, He should have proceeded with a go around as it is the safer choice the second the nose pitched up and the plane bounced that should have been the green light. In addition, he over corrected as seen by the spoilers deploying on the left wing before touching down and if that was the "correct amount" of input necessary to correct the path, that also indicates a go around scenario. Moreover, the plane almost landed on the nose wheel due to the pilot pushing the nose down which is a critical threat and error. In consequence, that wasn't a safe landing nor was it a great one as it shows a potential poor decision making and control. The correct way to do that would have been a go around. (this was an overview, but we should also consider other parameters as FOB and tiredness, which can also have an impact)
Did you see the ANA 767 that had a creased fuselage cause the nose gear touched first? Could've happened to this plane. It was a good landing cause everyone atleast walked away from it, but it was far from the greatest and neither was it a safe option to land anyway.
I like how Kelsey of the 74crew channel made a commentary video about this clip but was afraid that the people next doors at his hotel might misunderstand what the hell he was doing with that Ooh ooh ooh ooh sound this guy was yelling out so loudly!!
I studied aviation and aeronautics and let me say this cross wind landings can only be done successfully by seasoned pilots. Check the history of London's Heathrow airport cross wind is very prevalent and unseasoned pilots 9/10 time abort landings.
When my mom told me about this, i thought the newsanchor got the video from a random RU-vidr who possibly made it using computer graphics. But now knowing its real is crazy. But i have noticed other videos of LHR (London Heathrow) having these landing issues (because of the storm/winds). Do other London Airports suffer this? Like London Gatwick?
Don't know about London, but Leeds Bradford airport is also notorious for turbulent wind due to its location (on moorland). Used to live nearby and watching planes land on windy days was 😮
@@AdeleishaLondon Heathrow only gets landings like this during storms. Due to it being in the east of the country most days the winds are calm in London compared to the rest of the UK.
This looks like what is refer to as a crosswind landing. This is something that even small piston prop plane pilots are trained at handing from the basics.
@@PIlotrcm Exactly, every time I hear someone make a stupid comment like "they didn't let trash like this fly back in my day" I remind them that trash only travels on budget carriers and that decent service and decent people can still be found on the major carriers.
Who in the world is making that commentary? Are you a pilot yourself? Sometimes when planes come down there can be weather conditions that are not noticed before hand. Considering, it looks like that pilot handled it well. Look at the weather conditions?! Looks like the pilot was “slipping it” to handle coming down.
Sir it seems you missed what happened connect appear that he got caught in a wingtip vortices and it's known for flipping planes over upside down just about in a Split Second
The guy doing the talking is well known in the aviation world..once you have followed him for a while then you’ll understand his character but I’d never heard of him before then he sounds very annoying.
@@louisel.sinniger2057I don’t think the pilot did a touch and go at any point because a passenger said they circled the airport for 30 minutes before that wild terrifying landing.
The drama in the commentary is thicker than the fog at Heathrow. He needs to calm down. That commentary and that video are exactly what makes so many people so fearful of flying. Those pilots had a handle on this. No worries.
@robm3074 i could care less if you're a know-it-all plane nerd, but that was NOT a routine landing. its "no worries" now that the plane is safely on the ground. those winds were insanely strong, stop making it seem like a normally routine landing
The heck about going around how big planes like that have been flipped upside down before and crashed if it was a 737 I doubt that it would have safely landed
You’ve probably never experienced turbulence that bad like when my niece flew for the 2nd time ever and she said it felt like the plane fell for 100 feet and the oxygen mask deployed. She didn’t fly for 10 years after that lol.
Not a pilot either, but imo the really dangerous part was the leftward roll in the beginning (from wind). In case of a go-around, they'd need to potentially deal with the same situation from the start. (People here commented this was a flight from LA that already waited for another 30 min...) Once recovered from that roll, the worst risk was behind them (already slowed down, level, just feet from runway) IF their hands were steady enough, which seemingly was the case. However the entire landing should not even have been attempted with those unpredictable kinds of winds.
Tremendously strong winds from large storm over England. The man taking video is very experienced plane spotter with great popularity world-wide. He has youTube name of Bigjet TV and is LIVE many days of the week. His home base is Heathrow Airport in London.
Jesus people are saying how great they did?! That was an automatic go around in ANY airline FOM. The fact they still attempted that landing is shameful.
@deborahLong7777. I can assure you there would have been at least one mess if I had been on that flight. Can't guarantee which end it would be coming from, though.
Tremendously strong winds from large storm over England. The man taking video is very experienced plane spotter with great popularity world-wide. He has youTube name of Bigjet TV and is LIVE many days of the week. His home base is Heathrow Airport in London.
@@FRanceSource thank you so much for expanding the context! 🙏 I’m fascinated to understand the vortices (vortex) he kept referencing. My tv is so old, everything looks like a French impressionist painting, so I watched it on a different device, where I could make out the twirls or funnel shapes under & then over the wings. Someday I hope to find the right educational video on this. It was amazing to see, and his voice narrating was priceless! I’m grateful to you for giving his name. Will definitely look him up. What a fabulous character. ♥️
the pilot farted while landing, but didn't want to make it noticed, so he shook the plane a bit to make the co-pilot preoccupied with possible death. Very amazing and strategic move from a senior pilot
A bit was missed in the other explanation. Heathrow had frankly horrible winds yesterday, and so did most of Britain. Many planes diverted or took multiple landing attempts, but this one just went for it despite the gusting wind.. you can see how that went