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Dramatic Landing of Hong Kong Cathay Pacific A350 Caught on Camera at Heathrow

travelweekly.com.au

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Should just be a link to the tweet from Big Jet TV rather than travelweekly

https://twitter.com/BigJetTVLIVE/status/1680966378524758017

Big Jet TV is kindof famous in the UK because on 18 February 2022 when Storm Eunice was passing through, the channel trended on twitter and everyone ended up watching it and talking about it

https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2022/02/18/big-jet-tv-planes-landi...

Not even a wing tip or tail strike. The most dramatic part was that annoying british dude doing the commentary. He has done similar commentaries for hundreds of other landings.

I kept scrolling past the Dickhead Broadcasting Service post and there was a commentary-less YouTube video further down the article.

What? while this does look like a hard landing, it doesn't look particularly "out there" for strong/gusty crosswinds - maybe it is uncommon for London but certainly doesn't seem "dramatic"

Funny enough some of the craziest crosswind landings I’ve seen were old 747 landing videos at Hong Kong’s old Kai Tak. Wonder if Cathay Pacific still has those pilots on staff.

I doubt it. It used to be some of the best and experienced pilots before you can land Kai Tak. And that was 26 years ago. If they were 30s then they would be close to 60s now. Not to mention stupid Cathay forced early retirement for a lot of their pilots during COVID.

But yeah, Kai Tok was fun.

Good point, they would've been the senior-most pilots back then so many have probably long retired.

Plus who wants to go back to land straight in a boring approach after you've done the checkerboard approach at Kai Tak? :-)

Good old times....

It is also nice to know someone on HN remember Kai Tak :)

Inertia doesn't make you whip sounds in different directions. That's turbulence and wind, and about as good a landing sad you could ask for under the circumstances.

Seems like a bit of windshear. Hard landing, but not really a huge drama.

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