Re: OT: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Hamburg, we will try landing again shortly.

On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:46:50 GMT, Jan Panteltje
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On a sunny day (Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:41:00 -0700) it happened Jim Thompson
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On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:31:14 -0800, Tim Wescott <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Jan Panteltje wrote:
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Hamburg, we hope you also enjoy our next landing attempt.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/03/03/germany.plane/index.html

Like I wrote: there was a bit of a hurricane.
Windshear, WHAT windshear?

Do you think a robot could do better?

A robot could certainly do a better job of scraping the wing...

Given what I see in the video, it looks like some excellent flying. If
the pilot did anything wrong it was to line up with the runway to early
-- but I can't criticize, because if I tried it you'd just have a big
wad of aluminum, carbon fiber, and body parts.

Fox News reported that there was a side shear of 155MPH !!!

Pilots commenting only wonder why the jerk made a landing attempt in
the first place.

Agreed.

That was my first thought. The runway (airport) should have been
closed at that point. I personally have seen pilots die under the same
circumstances (While I was saying "Oh, crap, don't hit me!")
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