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Crosswind Landing Gone Wrong: TUI Boeing 737 at Leeds Bradford

Fear of Landing

As they descended towards Leeds, the crew calculated the landing performance with the wind at 060 at 19 knots. The approach controller gave them the current wind as 070 gusting 33 knots and let them know that a Boeing 737-800 had just landed. And sometimes its 35 knots across *and* thick fog. It’s not *always* like that.

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Delta CRJ-900 Crash Lands, Flips Upside Down, Loses Both Wings

One Mile at a Time

Long story short, weather conditions in Toronto werent great, with winds of 23 knots, gusting up to 33 knots. Obviously a strong crosswind can impact a planes stability. There were a total of 80 people onboard, including four crew members and 76 passengers. One wonders how exactly a plane could flip over on landing.

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Game On!

Plane and Pilot

The Texas winds were gusting anywhere from 15-25 knots, and like other aerobatic airplanes, the canopy can be easily blown off. As soon as the tail was up, I added full power and accelerated to 80 knots and rotated with the tiniest bit of back pressure. Before I knew it we had already hit 120 knots. Takeoff Over 50-ft.

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How to Read a Windsock

Pilot Institute

Standard FAA aviation windsocks are calibrated to fully extend at a wind speed of 15 knots. These aircraft have lower crosswind limitations and are more affected by gusts and wind shear. How To Read a Windsock Hanging limp : Winds are under 3 knots. Extended halfway: Winds are around 7-8 knots. Why does this matter?

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Teaching International Student Pilots

Air Facts

For example, describing a Cuban eight maneuver would involve such writing as, enter the (in Farsi , R-L), Cuban eight (in English, L-R), maneuver no lower than (in Farsi , R-L), 10,000 AGL (in English, L-R), at a minimum of (in Farsi , R-L), 450 knots (in English, L-R). add 5 knots for winds at 10 knots gusting to 20 knots).

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Ouch: Delta CRJ-900 Suffers Wing Strike During LaGuardia Go Around

One Mile at a Time

Weather conditions werent good at all, with winds at the time reported as being at 22 knots, and gusting to 36 knots. Not only that, but there was quite a crosswind, as wind was blowing at a direction 40 degrees off the runway heading. The flight was operated by a 17-year-old CRJ-900 with the registration code N185GJ.

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The Ercoupe

Plane and Pilot

The main landing gear featured a swiveling trailing link design to allow landings in a crab, a simple version of the crosswind crab system in the mighty B-52 Stratofortress. In a crosswind, you fly an Ercoupe down the runway with whatever crab angle you need to track the centerline and let the gear figure it out upon touchdown.

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