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Oct 7, 2004 | 3:19 am

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Shocking Landing Caught on Tape

This shocking landing was caught on tape - here is the link:

http://uk.download.yahoo.com/ne/fu/a...s/airlines.wmv

Oct 7, 2004 | 3:29 am

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Oct 7, 2004 | 9:37 am

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This shocking landing was caught on tape - here is the link:

http://uk.download.yahoo.com/ne/fu/a...s/airlines.wmv

I've had a few like that (not commerical, but military and company planes).

Oct 7, 2004 | 9:49 am

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I've had a few like that (not commerical, but military and company planes).

I was in a C-130 20 years ago that clipped a tree coming in for a soft-field landing. It tore off the end of the wing; the entire flight was so darn rough and poorly-flown that for us grunts in the back, we didn't hardly realize what the idiot pilot had done until we marched out the back of the plane, and saw the remains of the tree growing out of the stub-ended wing.

Oct 7, 2004 | 10:27 am

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The OP's "shocking landing" is unfortunately a fake... it was from a European TV commercial, Dutch I think. Pretty convincing though, eh?

Oct 7, 2004 | 11:45 am

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The OP's "shocking landing" is unfortunately a fake... it was from a European TV commercial, Dutch I think. Pretty convincing though, eh?

BearX220 beat me to it. I, too, can confirm that this was from a European TV commercial. They've cleverly sped up the tape to make the landing look "harder" than it really was. Nevertheless, this wasn't a "textbook" approach or landing.

Oct 7, 2004 | 12:48 pm

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The KAL 747 landing at KaiTak is a classic and has been around for quite some time.
It still amazes me that he managed to pull it off.

Oct 7, 2004 | 12:54 pm

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The KAL 747 landing at KaiTak is a classic and has been around for quite some time.
It still amazes me that he managed to pull it off.

While looking for a picture on airliners.net (sorry!) last night, I found a series of 4 stills of an NCA doing an even worse job than that KAL. Now I understand why Flight International said (at the time they printed the KAL pictures) that Kai Tak's ATC saw this sort of thing quite regularly.

Oct 7, 2004 | 4:59 pm

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Theres also a video around of an MD-80 landing without slowing his rate of descent in the flare (this was a test flight obviously)...the whole tail section just snapped right off from the impact...

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Oct 7, 2004 | 5:32 pm

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http://www.flightlevel350.com/picwin...cat=19&pic=139

Oct 7, 2004 | 5:41 pm

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that last one was freaky

Oct 7, 2004 | 6:28 pm

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that 747 one is amazing

Oct 7, 2004 | 8:09 pm

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Um, wow.

I'd be throwing up. THAT is why they tell you to fasten your seatbelts on landing. Crap like that can happen. Anything loose must have been FLYING around inside of that cabin. I mean, did you see HOW HIGH and how many times that nose litterally BANGED off the runway? I was expecting to see the landing gear collapse. That wasn't just a hard landing, that was avionic punishment of the worst kind. I knew it wasn't going to be pretty when I saw that crazy approach.

Oct 7, 2004 | 8:16 pm

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http://www.flightlevel350.com/picwin...cat=19&pic=139

I'm amazed the engines stayed on. That would be SCARY AS HELL to see that behind you in the coach cabin!! Suddenly the whole back end is torn off and you're looking out the back of the airplane, to the outside seeing the tail following you while sparking. Yeesh!