Lufthansa Boeing 747-8i's Dramatic Touch and Go at LAX | Airline Videos Live Capture 

Wow! I am so glad the second time was better. Can you describe the reactions and feelings inside the plane upon those bounces?!?!?

@@daniellejohnson199 lots of people screamed when it hit cause it was super hard, then when it bounced up everyone kinda started laughing but lots of babies were crying and I believe the laughing was for the children so they thought it was fun instead of scary. Everyone really wanted to get off once we landed, but it’s always kinda like that.

Glad you are safe. What did the pilot say to the passengers?

Alhamdulillah. ❤ Everyone safe landing finally. Alhamdulillah.

@j44hanna1 ....thank you for the first-hand perspective! Just WoW!!! I can see why everyone was VERY anxious to deplane!!!

Perfect assessment.

Best comment ever and very apt.

Ouch 😂

Holy Moly

Best comment!

Also the ATC person. Obviously an airport with heavy traffic. She stayed cool and just continued to give him altitudes and other traffic in the area. And, I'm sure she wasn't but she sounded like she was 17 years old. I have the hardest time understanding what they're saying. Presumably because I don't know the jargon which helps. Her vocal fry did nothing to make it more clear however. 😜

The gear is built for such abuse. Main gear is Made from solid forged billets.

one single gear can support the entire weight of the 747, search koeran air in Hong Kong Kai Tak

99.9 % men involved ☝🏿🧐

You misspelled “tires”.

It was very impressive!

Usually they land at the same speed as they take off and only lowers their speed after buttering their land ...so it's their landing gear which i think should be more appreciated...

You are literally a bot

I would Not have retracted the gear during the go-around. Those tires were smokin hot and could possibly have caught fire. You do no want a tire or brake fire in the wheel compartment

Both !!!

The queen is lucky parts are not falling off. Boeing aka flying coffin

​​@@RoyceVera ? Maybe sometimes you can blame the maintenance and if it would have been dangerous FAA would simply have banned Boeing

Nope she does not. She is the queen!!!!

@@RoyceVera 747 was made when they cared lol

@@RoyceVera This is part of the problem to be honest, I can't stand comments like this. Since when has the Queen ever had a bad name?

yes during certification they do 3 landings, panic stop immediate take off fully loaded, no thrust reversers, no flaring on landing so 10 ft per sec vertical descent. This was the test back in 1969 flight test program 747

Amazing 👍

Truly, as is the airframe to which it’s attached. The whole airplane has to take that shock.

Yer just what I thought folded away like nothing had happened! 😮

My dad always was amazed how the tires never blew out on touchdown.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Thank you😊

When I was younger, I used to act cool and have the seat belt loose (stupid youth). Now, I always wrap it tight and make sure it's fastened well. It's rare having mid-air emergencies (other than turbulence). It's always the takeoffs and landings.

@charleswhite758 Ditto!

Many were saying the same thing after the Alaska incident here in Portland where the door plug blew out (btw, I just learned a friend of mine lives down the street from where it and a headrest ended up "landing")

why was that the right decision? was it going to keep jumping on the runway?

To recalibrate your scale, look up DC9 hard landing. The amazing thing with that one is that they repaired the damage and that plane went on to fly for another 14 years.

@@celderian thnx :)

@IvoXr Because a bounce with a pitch down of the nose afterwards can lead to disaster. Go and look at the fedex crash in Japan a decade or so ago. Similar situation. Bounced, nosed in and broke apart.

It hurt. Badly then total panic attack when we went back in the air.

That wasn't the engines you could hear screaming, that was the passengers screaming out loud from both ends😂😂

Oh be quiet lol.

Pilot up front, panic in the rear.

The best part of the video is hearing those engines roar as the pilot pulls back up!

That wasn't the 747 that was the jet blue lining up 24R. You can hear the engines spool back down.

What about jam?

Wow, glad you made it! I have so many questions! What did the pilot say!? Did everyone think he was a bad pilot, or were they understanding?

Du meine Güte! 😱😱😱

Omg , glad everything was ok

I had worse landings, but that was 25 years ago in flight school! 🙈

Probably wind shear or something

they feel for your couch. i wonder how many hours they flew for. 11 hours really hurts in my experience. lol

I'm impressed people watch this live. Is it relaxing?

@@calpurniabruchi5742 Totally, better than watching golf on TV, lol

Oopsies

@@calpurniabruchi5742 Go to any airport. If there are places to pull a car up just outside the perimeter, usually a fence. People will park there just to watch the planes take off and land.

@@Hugging_Cactus I absolutely agree 👍 👍👍👍

💯 facts

For me the A380 is the best one!

Love the 747 she's a beauty.

@@Hugging_Cactus Indeed!

YEA

They really are! Amazing technology and air bird! Deserves the best care, construction and diligent upkeep! It's a travesty that planes were poorly outfitted and repaired!

They are indeed! I flew on one to Hawaii back in '83. Giant, graceful monsters!! Saw my friend's cheeks get pushed back during the takeoff G force. Then you feel the slow butterflies in your tummy during the deceiving feeling of it's weight bringing you back down again as it first ascends in the air. Was almost best part of the vacation!

Boeing couldn't build something like that today

@@HawkqOjOp I think you just described the part of take off that makes me uncomfortable - when you stop feeling the g forces of take off and it makes it feel (to me) like the plane is descending instead of ascending

Me to, thought he going crash

I did the same thing..

Wonder if they had to get gear inspected after 2 full compressions.

Same here!

Doing what they do best? Try learning to land an airplane first and then they wouldn't have to say "what they do best" is recovering from a dangerously botched landing...

@@stevenwilliams1915 Are you a pilot and could you land that plane perfectly? Maybe there were unforeseen circumstances or conditions that caused an issue. I wouldn’t complain about anyone driving one of those big things and landing me safely on the ground and he did. The fact that he was able to abort the first landing attempt and take off again was pretty impressive imo.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@stevenwilliams1915 bro that can happen!!!! And see? They did what was right. And Lufthansa has almost the best pilots on the world. Even the best pilot can do a mistake.

@@user-ky2xo2ls4m Sorry ... no circumstances or conditions. Almost calm wind (see the grass at 1:10) but no nose up 30 ft high - compare with 3:11

Amen.

@@CornyCF AirBerlin?

Hi, me too.

Me too and I'm a Brit!

@@CornyCF I’m saving for a ride on one of those Lufthansa Queens … it’s taking some time🤑

Maybe not after that landing

There is Korean Air 747 in service to idk were tho exactly

@@TitanMD-11Man Seoul-Atl I think

@@nicevibe-zd9fj ya its that flight thanks

There are about 400 of them still in service 🤷🏻‍♂️

That's not a hard landing, it's a high-speed landing

747 is my favorite!!!

Thank God everything went fine😢😢

A380 is the best 👌

A380, the King of the Air

I have been on one, and it was also Lufthansa :) Smaller plane though, Frankfurt to Bologna

No cool points lost!

Mather?

maybe the first try was pilot in training 🤔

Yup, this was a common problem with the MD11 mainly due to the construction of the elongated nose over that landing gear. You might remember the FedEx MD11 bounces?

Just wondering. I didn’t hear anything. Possible wind shear you think? I saw the late flare, but wasn’t sure if it’s because of a loss of lift.

Fr. I thought there was gonna be a tail strike when going around

Stop with the pilot hero crap. He is the one who screwed it up in the 1st place!

@@renscience Regardless, disaster averted! That is what matters.

German engineering for you.

@@cherylreichardt its just a pilot screwed up a landing, go around and comeback for another attempt. Nothing was averted. Just a typical day at work… if you overlook the screwed up.

@@murmursoftheachingheart3259 uh, it's an American plane bruh. Boeing 747

Not terrible.. She was light already from the long trip and minimal fuel. The 747 has a TON of power as well. Approach speed of 145-150kts means it would have plenty of speed going into the go-around as well.

@@COSpecV420 👍👍

I'm guessing all of it

​@@dowen1105I mean, that's kinda what TOGA is...

My thoughts exactly.

He had a late flare

He also had too low power setting before the flare

I disagree with your assessment and explanation. Listen to the controller as she reports the actual surface winds. Winds 240 at 11. A typical day at LAX has winds fairly steady from the west, generally.

N a c172 I had sudden tailwind and full elevator deflection didn’t stop descent, still slammed the plane down. Would hate to experience that in 747.

@@jonasbaine3538 If you watch the video several times, you can see the body of the plane wobble up and down near the bubble. Jaun Browne says most often this often results in a major failure in the body structure. Focus on the Internet antenna on the top, you can see it wobble big time at least twice. The second bounce was much worse than the first.

B747-8, not B747-800

Look who talking !? :D 🤣

I have experienced something very very similar to this in 2012, also in Frankfurt on a Lufthansa, flew from Brussel. Our plane didn't actually touch the ground but it was probably less than 15 ft from wheels to the runway. All of a sudden the plane accelerated from landing speed to take off speed right when everyone thought the plane was about to touch down. It was so unexpected and honestly pretty scary to most of the passengers by how sudden that happened. No announcement prior or after the relaunch either. Me and the stranger lady next to me ended up holding hands really tight (we didn't have a single conversation or exchange during the whole flight up until then), lol.

@@blipblip thats adorable. 😂💕Glad you were able to land safe eventually !

@@blipblip I started watching these live plane spotting shows here and there lately and it's kind of interesting how many go-arounds there are. I suppose if I were to fly and that happened to me, I would be a *lot* less nervous knowing they aren't that rare. It kills me to not know WHY though, I hate not knowing the reason to things like that 😆

Wow. Once had an equally hard landing in Luxor, Egypt. My accompanying father said I went 'green'. We were flying on to Aswan and I wanted to get off and go there by road. (an hour or two) I stayed because of luggage etc. Nervous as anything preparing to land in Aswan. The pilot brought it down like a feather. Perhaps aware of the previous slam!

Definitely was scary the first time

@@lewisbale1 Free replacement underwear was handed out on exit 😂😂

@@gigabyte2573 "Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin our inflight diaper service."

👍👍👍I totally agree!

Boeing dismantled the 747 production line. End of an era.

My uncle was a pilot. You are a special breed to do that as a career. The abort on this was amazing to watch. Nice to know there are talented Pilots out there that can do this. Just wow!!!

I was caught in an eye off a storm on a light plane. It was the scariest, thunder, wind, lightning hitting our plane and putting heavy rain. Man the pilot was so skilled. I prayed the whole way and God helped us.

the weight and rain don’t help with the landing. I’m not afraid flaying but sometimes it may be scaring with the landing in big planes. I pray 🙏🏻

Duh!

"Rain" ??? Perfectly blue sky...

And tires!

They sure made Boeings better back then!

@@WesMordine They are still made well. You and everyone else have gotten too caught up in all the media hype.

The Captain??? He caused that mess!

Not indestructible. God's grace

Normal go-around

A few weeks earlier and Kevin could have said "Hippity hoppity, Easter's on its way."

You realize how heavy a "heavy 747 is?" and that baby bounced.......

Unfortunately commercial pilots, especially long haul pilots, don't do the actual landings often enough these days. Pilots everywhere are complaining about losing their actual flying skills. Even Captain Sully mentioned this after his landing on the Hudson.

@@JustMyOpinion1010 You don't know what you're talking about. It is rare for pilots to use autoland

You can tell there was something wrong on that first attempt

@@waholoopesorry74 I think he means that if you do 1.5-3 hour flights, you take off and land often. If you do 8 hour flights, you take off and land less often and you're on autopilot most of the time. A taxi driver has his skillset in use all the time, much more than someone who puts his car on cruise control and drives from Miami to Maryland...

@@hugolafhugolaf Well Sully was a domestic pilot so I don’t think that’s actually what he meant

Yeah the 1st officer took over.

Experience is a great teacher!😂

"Pity Boeing decided to retire the Queen of the Skies" ironically the one plane Boeing built that wouldn`t fall apart......

Lufthansa isn't even a 5 star airline

@@RIZFERD Maybe. But LH has 5* pilots.

You saw that too, as he was descending, looks like the winds may have shifted or a sudden down draft

​@@TheBeagle58I'm curious as to if this was a crosswind problem, ground effect problem, or something different. It doesn't look like pilot error, given the skill shown in recovery and repeat

well he smacked the plane on the ground first 😆

If you are or have been a pilot you know what the wind can do. Look up some of these crosswind landing videos. A lot of close calls.

Seems like it wasn't far off from being an Emirates Flight 521. Isn't it a bit premature to conclude whether the pilot was in control or not?

They're built like tanks. Queen of the skies right there!

Don't think that was the planes error.

I always ask at the gate what type of plane we are flying on.😊HINT*

@@Dennis867. Sophomoric, given you should be asking for the accrued flight hours of the pilots. HINT*

How often do you think something like this happens on Lufthansa's approximately 1 million flights a year? Probably only once, and that was a chain of unfortunate circumstances with downdrafts that suddenly pushed the aircraft down, something like that can happen.

why did that make national news?

For a bad landing?

@@CivilStigBecause the footage was so dramatic.

@@kimberlywoodbury1739 so 'national news' is just sensation that doesn't need actual news-value? nice.

It’s even used in German television, saw it at the news a day after 😅

The live chat must have been going crazy

@@Sparks_Alive lol - literally off the runway just like that airplane!

thats what she said hahaha

Now bout the inner right engine... she def scraped the deck

German engineered gear

Designed in the 60s

747 MLG is amazing. Ând the aircraft was rather light after 11 hrs of flight.

@@hubertbaierl9546the gear is not German engineered. Where did you come up with that?

@@mikefromflorida8357 If the gear is not done by Liebherr, a German company, which other company did it?

TOGO!

@@graceryan9212 yo también en 1993. Bogota Dusseldorf

Take no notice of the Roblox kids, they have no say.

No it was truly amazing how the pilot seamlessly transitioned to taking back off. A testament to the crews skill. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Absolutely spot on 👍

Captain in training. Former short distance captain.

fs200 no ,computer said "step aside guys"

First officer said - you should retire

Captain said, "lads, I have got my certification next week, and I haven't landed a plane since COVID". "I think I'll take this one, as conditions look so benign". First Officer; "oh! Feck"!

He SOUNDS just like the Cart Narcs guy😂

Kevin really wanted to say the s-word after "holy...." but kept that urge under control better than the landing flare of the aircraft

He's actually a trans woman, very popular in the LAX atc area

@@bigpapa870 What has the sexuality of the ATC got to do with anything?

@@wendy-diannwendy-diann8060 im just clarifying

Spyderco Nirvana and Gayle Bradley1&2 are my favorite,,,, you?

People at VAS Aviation's video of this said that the pilot of the first landing was in training

It looked a warthog that had just landed in a pride of lions 😲😲😲

That was the scariest thing ever seen

It's not espacially a Lufthansa-Thing. The reason could be tail-wind or downfall wind. Sooner or later... this could be happen to ANY company.

@@Gringomania So as in a head wind that quit ,or turned around?

@@Gringomania the conditions were Winds 240 at 11 knots.

I not, too.

Thanks for sharing. Can you now share your experience at the DMV where you were in & out in no time. Fascinating!

@@timothyreilly8394 to my shock, that did happen last January when I had to renew my license, there was hardly anyone there and I didn’t have to wait, first time ever

I agree! Those big 380’s are bigger but the 747 is without competition for being the most beautiful aircraft ever to fly! Queen of the sky! ❤️😎👍

@@karenweaver134 Nah the A380 looks like an absolute goddes of the sky when they do that slow speed flyover its crazy how the biggest passenger plane in the world can fly that slow without falling out of the sky its truly mesmeraizing safety tech on that one 😍

You got that right I retired from U.P.S. flying the 747 for 30 years👍🏿

No doubt about that! It is amazing how ATC is just on it!

LAX tends to have the best controllers. My opinion not based on facts.

I'm sure you mean commend. Command means you're telling her what to do. Commend means good things, like if Tater got a commendation for excellent ATC work during a stressful time. Or this woman ATC was commended for keeping things calm while it was obvious LH 456 was having a rough landing and had to go around.