Life Goes On...

"So long, Jimmy, so long, Jimmy.
Though you only stayed a moment,
We all know that you're the one. Singing."

Cross Winds! - The Hamburg Fiasco

I get fascinated when I see pilots touching down their planes in strong cross winds. It's the most elegant example for the application of vector algebra...but the cross wind landing at Hamburg airport was hard pill to swallow....the pilot almost screwed it up...Take a look all by yourself:


I would also recommend you to have a look at the following blog, its an interesting read:

http://www.airlineempires.net/blog/2008/03/03/hamburg-wing-strike-pilot-a-hero-or-lacking-technique/

For those who are wondering what happened eventually:
It was the co-pilot [the less experienced dude of course], who had messed this up... later on the captain took the command of the landing process and it was an happy ending!