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THE PILOT OF this Cityjet plane that was scheduled to land in Cork Airport yesterday aborted the landing at the last minute and brought the plane back into the air.
In the video the plane can be seen contending with heavy crosswinds that were still prevalent in the wake of Storm Barney.
The plane, which was making its way from London City Airport, can be seen making glancing contact with the ground before taking off into the air again.
Thankfully, after the pilot performed a go-around procedure the plane was able to land safely.
While the video might look pretty shocking, this type of incident is more common than you might think.
The Irish Aviation Authority says of the procedure:
This standard manoeuvre does not constitute any sort of emergency or threat to safety, but may cause passengers or witnesses to become anxious.
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Compliments to the pilot!!! Obviously didnt want to take the risk!!! Your life or another few minutes in the air???
You’d hardly die from that distance down unless the plane blew up. It would probably cause significant damage to the aircraft though.
At what speed does a plane land???
Please don’t ever take up flying
I’ve been reliably informed by wrongepedia that ‘an aeroplane lands at approximately 14 mph depending on on the shape, size and speed of the aircraft’.
Either you need a hobby or have never been on an aircraft!!!
Some airplanes can land as slow as 30 knots(35mph) and some need 160 knots(184mph)
In and around 160knt
Jason Bourne I’m surprised you can remember the $hit you type, go back to being a amnesiac please
Harrowing? Hardly. Hairy maybe.
Ha! You’re on the ball Michael! Terrifying is probably a little more apt. Well done on taking the comments on board!
Must have been frightening for the passengers. I always feel bad after pulling out at the last minute.
Thank god you do pull out!!!
James’ rubber woman says no – it ain’t worth it…
Geraldine hanging out the ass of my comments again. If you want me baby,all you got to do is ask..hugs and kisses..
a lesbian too…
I can be anything you want me to be sweetheart.
Except an intelligent, well educated/adjusted, resourceful, hard working human…
Do you know me Ger?
You both need to grow up
Don’t tell me to grow up at all. Ger here,has decided to make snide remarks after all my comments,for whatever reason I don’t know.
Never mind a vomit bag … New pair of jocks defo needed after that
That aeroplane was heading for a cartwheel down the runway, highest standard of flying, congratulations to the pilot.
Would have preferred if pilot never put himself and everyone else on board in that position. I’d be a long way from congratulating him !
@Liam, you do know that aeroplanes can’t stay in the air indefinitely but have to land sometimes, don’t you?
Nerve-racking perhaps, ‘harrowing’ really?
Flying on anything smaller than a 737 or A330 into or out of Ireland is usually an experience. The old air arann Cork Dublin flight was like a 30 minute ride in Alton towers.
If it smashed into the ground, then it would be harrowing. Or if it pulled a Harrow down the runway. Otherwise it’s not harrowing.
goo idiot
Cork.
Fantastic in almost everything except airport locations.
Cork.
Had this happens on an EI flight recently. Was happy pilot’s training was so good he knew not to risk it.
They normally will try again, but divert after that. Been on a few flights into Cork over the years in poor conditions and it’s a bollocks ending up in Shannon or Dublin when you know you were so close to touching down.
Wow, well done to the pilot, I don’t know much about flying a plane but they seemed to have this well under control. Had they tried to put the front wheel down too I suspect it would not have worked out very well. Kudos.
Pilots must have a love hate relationship with tbe runways of windy ireland
Love watching the Q400′s and Dash 8s coming in like crabs on 24L at YUL. Then at last minute hang a left to land straight. Have been on 2 go arounds this year. Interesting but never felt unsafe.
Well done that pilot.
Flying sideways!
It’s called crabbing
Happens coming into Jersey airport regularly – but the pilots are used to landing sideways.
WTF , this is probally the most tamest aborted landing video out there.
Most tamest? Why are you talking like a 5 year old?
Similar experience on a BA flight coming in from London to Dublin a couple of years back. The pilot said he was going to try to land and after said you may have noticed we didn’t land, and flew us on up to Belfast. They attempted to get us hotel rooms but there was no room at the inn so we were taxied down to Dublin, much to the annoyance of Lon-Dub RyanAir passengers who were faced with being left stranded in a closed Belfast airport overnight.
*clap clap clap…* Oh.
Terrifying? Divide by 5 as my mother would say!!!
KLM Boeing 777 almost close to disaster when coming down to land at Amsterdam airport last July 2015. Look at this footage
Article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/storm-landing-video_55b64e46e4b0a13f9d191376
Am flying wit them in jan only Jesus and worst off all am goin too Paris
Well done to pilot and correct decision as the plane was crabbing too far right to get the front wheels down in a straight line on middle of the runway. It’s a bit unnerving when you can see down the runway as you approach it and the plane crabbed extreme right . Had the pleasure of an Aeroflot flight in far eastern Russia near Sakhalin landing like this in high winds and then running out of runway due to ice on the runway and taking out a boundary fence . Well done to the pilots but it’s when you realise your not slowing down like normal and then passing point of no return to get back in the air . That’s a scary flight .
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