It definitely would have been far from fun for the passengers in this Lufthansa flight. This A320 flight was caught in the crosswind and was almost blown over. When I saw it all I could say was wow! I really wouldn’t want to be on that plane.
They are guessing the wind speed when that gust almost tipped the plane over but I guess we have to give the pilot credit to get the plane off the ground again for another try..
I heard a piece on NPR radio where the host talked to the author of the book Beyond the Black Box: The Forensics of Airplance Crashes. You can hear it here.
On a side note, I let ShanKri-la’s first birthday pass by silently (Feb 26th was my first post last year). That’s because I actually registered the domain in Sep 06 but didn’t really start blogging until Feb’07. It’s been a great year of learning and I hope to learn even more in the coming year and share my finds with you. Thanks for staying with me.. looking forward to another great year! 😛
That is a truly disturbing video, they were almost scraping the ground for a moment there.
Congratulations on a year of blogging, it certainly seems as though you’ve accomplished quite a lot in that time, and you should be proud of this blog :).
Congrats on compleating a year in blogging buddy.
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Troy.. thanks a lot! I am happy to see where I am with my blog after a year but it’s nothing compared to some of the fine blogs around. I am constantly trying to improve and hope it shows. By the way, I finally gotten around to implementing your suggestion of removing Comic sans from the tag cloud. 😛
Madhur.. thanks a lot man!
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Yikes, that was a VERY close call!
And congrats, buddy, on turning 1-year-old! Woo-hoo!!
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Mark.. thanks buddy! 😆
Wow, that’ s a crazy miss landing! I have flown more than 30 times in the past few years and only had one miss landing which being far from being that extreme, was scary enough.
Congrats on your 1 year anniversary. You have done really well, keep up the great work.
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Jon, this looked pretty scary! Thanks for your wishes. 🙂
That was crazy. I thought the wing was going to crash into the ground.
Hey Jared, welcome to ShanKri-la! You know it.. I haven’t seen such a close-call before caught on video either!
That’s very close. Thanks god the plane took off again.
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Asia’h, it did make my shudder.