FULL Virgin VS43 Gatwick Emergency Landing with ATC 

I can't stop smiling. Such a great landing, and so glad everyone walked away. Hats off to the whole crew!

I was expecting those engines to strike the runway after touchdown, but they did not. Impressive!

To me this is the most beautiful and amazing plane ever built. Great work by the pilots.

first class film and sound recording; one for the books. Thank you!

Everyone needs to realise the PF touched down firmly on purpose in an attempt to release the stuck landing gear out of its bay.

Bottom line is - they ALL walked away. Well done Pilots and Crew.

My son is a pilot, remember watching his first landing on that same runway. Not all plain sailing!

If there is anything that will give you 100% confidence to land it safely, is knowing your own child is one of the passengers. 👏 👏 👏

Fly this route to DefCon in vegas every summer, great to see the VA crew dealing with this kind of emergency without so much as a scratch, hats off to them all.

and they kept it on the centerline. Professional!

That was a darn good landing and that entire crew, especially the captain, deserves some major praises and more!

Gotta love armchair experts.

Why would anyone dislike this video? You just seen what great engineering and safety in design prevent a disaster. Did you want to see a plane crash with casualties?

Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain. We will be landing shortly and the flight crew now ask that everyone to please move to the left side of the aircraft. Thank you for flying with us today.

Thanks for sharing this great vid! Superb work! Glad everything went well!

Absolute textbook perfection. I hope this crew are flying VS43 when I go on it in September.

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Best footage I've seen on emergency landings, thanks .

Pilot earned his pay that day....did an impressive job in my book, landed safely...all onboard safe....good job. 👍👍👍

The 747 is one of the most robust commercial jets ever constructed. Props to Boeing.

thanks for posting this video. the pilot deserves a national award.

Full marks to the pilot AND the 747!

If it was thunder birds, they would place the fire engine under the right wing!

Love the guy at the end "Not gonna lie bit disappointed to be honest"

Great vid. Stunning landing. Like a bird. Absolute perfection by flight crew.

Thanks for the Pilot experience!!!

brilliant flying by the air crew well done to everyone involved in the successful outcome

Disaster avoided, calm and professional pilot there mate. And you realize what a beast that 74 is when those huge trucks get to and and are freaking dwarfed by it.

I used to have duties which included landing gear loads analysis (normal and abnormal configs) for a major airframe manufacturer. Here's what you are looking at: * Moderate touchdown rate at well under the 12 fps design value (an *average* carrier landing is what 12 fps looks like, BTW) or the 15 fps gear failure value, but above the typical 4-6 fps. * Relatively low touchdown loads, even minus one strut, because wing lift was still counteracting much of the weight. Maybe even less than the loads experienced at rotation when they took off, if they were anywhere near MTOW for the flight. Confirmed by the wing deflection, which was a tiny fraction of the design value. * Continued reduced loads thanks to only 4 of 12 spoiler panels deploying. That's why it bounces: still plenty of lift from the wing, so not even enough down force to counteract the up force from the compressed shock struts . The usual peak loads just aren't there. * As others have noted, an excellent job by the flight crew of keeping the aircraft all shiny and new!

I played squash with the Captain of this flight recently. His young daughter was accompanying him on this trip and was sat in the passenger cabin. Imagine how proud she must have been of her dad as he safely landed the aircraft. Captain was a lovely bloke. And also annoyingly good at squash. 😅

Been monitoring this one all morning on the interwebz. Hats off to the pilots on this one.

Great video many thanks. A big bird lives to fly again. Once again many thanks for this great happy ending. Cheers mate.

There is always the armchair pilot who has to criticize....He landed this beast safely with all the pax....So respect in my book!

Brilliant landing. Bully to the pilots and crew. I watched a documentary on the 747 once and it really is quite an amazing aircraft. One of the original Boeing test pilots kept running into engine blow-outs (GE or Pratt & Whitney, can't recall which) and to illustrate the problem to the disbelieving engine manufacturer engineers the pilot blew out all but one engine in-flight and the 747 happily kept flying. Needless to say the engine manufacturer told him to stop and fixed the problem soon thereafter!

Amazing landing under the circumstances. Kudos to the Capt.

Great Capture! Superb landing by the pilots! I am amazed nothing was harmed during this landing. The right wing landing gear didn't deploy properly. I really hope hydraulic line wasn't damage severely.

Fantastic flying by the crew at VA

Kudos to the guy who says "or she" at 5:04.

Beautiful landing -- accomplished pilots bringing that big bird down so nicely -- they almost greased it! Good job! No. 4 (starboard) engine never touched the runway. Happy landing!

The Capitan is an artist. Trully superb landing by the pilots.

Great landing better video then sky news right place right time amazing London aircraft

That pilot need a raise, nerve of steel proper decision making, everyone is safe and bonus prevented any damage to the plane. Incredible

I was on that flight, pilot did a great job. They spent a few hours trying to shake down the gear, this made a few passengers a little uneasy but no major panic.

Right Wing fuel empty (dumped) to lose weight on that side to avoid collapse, great job by the crew. I don't understand why, 'cause virgin makes good maintenance to all their aircraft.

Amazing video! Incredible skill from the pilot.

That landing looks better than most landings with a full landing gear down

Everyone is complimenting the pilot, which he did do a great job. But I'm here to give a pat on the back to the engineers who designed this beautiful bird well and strongly enough to land with 1 of the landing gears malfunctioned.

Amazing shot, very lucky!

G-VROM is now N481MC operated by Atlas Air.

This pilot is brilliant landing this plane with broken landing gear Great footage of landing

Great job again:D!

Thumbs up to the Crew great handling

All credit to the crew for such a successful landing. And all credit to the camera work that we got to see this with radio commentary. Fantastic.

Absolutely Amazing effort by all.

Excellent video!!! Thank you !!

What an amazing landing by the pilots with such an emergency.

Perfect landing!

Captain earning his pay well done these pilot's needs to be praised for their skills .

Wow... Amazing landing & fantastic video work This is why we need to keep the Queen alive. Most reliable Aircraft and recognized Aircraft build.

Considering the increased load on the remaining landing gear I'm surprised more effort wasn't made to reduce the force on landing

It came close. Had those engines touched the ground, things could have become quite messy.

Such a beautiful plane.

I'm watching this almost 7 years on..... what amazing and very skilled pilots Virgin have 👮🏼‍♂️👮🏾‍♂️👮🏼‍♀️💜 ❤ ✈

I wonder if the crew arranged it so that any empty seats were on the right side of the cabin, to ensure the load was more over to the under carriage which was functioning properly? May not have made a significant difference? Just wondering.

respect for the crew

Fantastic shot. Well done. Do we have more details on the configuration of the landing along with a cause? I would love to see an ACI episode in the future on this.

Would a pilot transfer or jettison fuel from the wing on the affected side to balance things out on landing?

Awesome catch !

Why have they retracted the slats during the braking and extended them again after the full stop?

Thank you to the pilots....

excellent video

Can any professional tell me, why the PF did cut off the engines that late? They seem to spool down about one minute after the acft stopped, that is quite late and endangers rescue staff...

Epic landing! That pilots deserve a raise!!

Have done the VS43 to vegas flight at least a dozen times so guessing at some point must have been on this one.

Best ever aircraft and for sure the pilots.Excellent video.Thanks for uploading it.

Well done! Great capture! Did you add the radio later on?

What an absolute brilliant Pilot - whoever you are - you deserve to be honoured in The Queens Birthday Honours in 2015…… well done that Man!

I saw G-VROM depart today, shes fit and well again and is currrently flying to Orlando as VS27.

Any ideas why the leading edge retracted and then deployed again ?

Fantastic job!!!

I wonder if there would have been any merit to transferring wing fuel to the high wing to shift the CG sideways to be more centered on the landing gear. Either before or after landing. (I'm thinking more after landing, to re-balance the plane. Being off-center in flight would only have made the plane more difficult to handle and the fuel transfer would have added one more task to the flight crew).

AMAZING!

Does that count as Two Landings? Good job Flight Crew!!!

Excellent job 👍

Great job on the video.

I'm pretty sure the bounce was intended, as a last ditch attempt to free the gear. Brilliant display by the flight crew, excellent job.

Superb landing with landing gear issues. Great video and audio. I'd love to know the camera used to catch this footage.

Pilot in the loop, saved that plane. Computers will never be able to duplicate that complexity.

Nice Pilot! Biggest respect !

Good job on the pilot(s) landing the aircraft.

Gear malfunction, but a solidly built Boeing aircraft. Everyone made it and that's what counts.

ANY landing you walk away from is a "GOOD" landing if you can still fly the aircraft afterwards it is a "PERFECT" LANDING! Looks like a lot of "whuffo's making negative comments on this landing. Nothing wrong with this landing, well done.

Amazing landing!

it kind off sets also very hard.. lucky did not break the landing gears 100% unless it wanted to land on lower speed

Awesome landing!

Brilliant video, wish i had been working that day!

My 747-200 flight manual says if one of the wing gear is retracted on landing the plane will be uncontrollable. I guess that isn't true on a -400

Beautiful landing there

I'd love to know if they taxied afterwards or jacked the plane up & got the gear down. What happened afterwards?

why didn‘t the free-fall/gravity-drop-device work?