This incident apparently happened today in Hamburg Germany. The photo above (from Lars Tretau (if you couldn't figure that out)) shows the point on it's crazy crosswind approach when the Lufthansa Airbus A320 made contact with the hard surface using only its left winglet shortly before executing an immediate go around. The video below is reportedly from the same event, though the vantage point is no where near as good, and the point of impact get's a little fuzzy. I'm waiting for anyone to debunk this one. It's nearly too difficult to believe. Maybe I just want to believe it's fake. I've seen some crazy approaches, but that's just stupid. 2 words: crosswind alternate.
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Lufthansa A320 sheds winglet in crazy crosswing approach
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as a pilot i believe,,he didnot maintain his crosswind correction input all the way upto touchdown,, he most probably neutralized his ailerons and theefore into wind wing went up putting the airbus in to a left roll ,,,good decision in the end ,,good overshoot
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