Aer Lingus A320 has twice failed to land at Dublin Airport presumably due to high winds. Glad I’m not up there. pic.twitter.com/miXabOHoQi
— Colm O Caomhanaigh (@cocaomhanaigh) January 15, 2015
That flight has been diverted across the Irish Sea.
— Colm O Caomhanaigh (@cocaomhanaigh) January 15, 2015
Some smaller aircraft have been diverted due to winds gusting over 43 knots @DublinAirport passengers advised to check airline for updates.
— Dublin Airport (@DublinAirport) January 15, 2015
Rude bendy mickey.
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I guess I picked the wrong week to give up smoking.
– But they’ve got instruments! ;)
I guess I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
+ 1 Pritt stick
I like a pilot who knows when not to push his/her* luck. Passengers may not like it, but sometimes diverting is a good call. Far less convenient than crashing.
* the english language needs a new possesive personal pronoun.
Their.
A new one, he/she said.
Yes, I find the crashing a bugger.
Fair play to the Aer lingus pilots who landed us in from Frankfurt last friday night in similar bucketing high winds,
‘their’ ?
“more” convenient
Do I have a dirty mind or….
Worst cock n’ balls air-graffiti ever.
http://planefinder.net/flight/EIN63T/time/2015-01-15T09:40:00%20UTC
You can watch its attempts in the above link, fast forward. Other aircraft where able to land before and after so perhaps the pilot was spooked. Always better to abort if in doubt.
What scares me is the amount of aircraft above us!!
The worst thing you can get is a pilot who absolutely must get the passengers to the destination. Been a factor in many accidents.
I’d say it would be a fun day to be plane spotting at the side of the airport though.
the people you see in cars at the side of the airport are not plane spotting. oh no.
Really?
This has always intrigued me on the old airport road. There are clearly parents with their kids showing them ‘de plaaaaanes’, plus there has to be some genuine spotters there. Are you saying that the remainder are up to funny business in a Pope’s Cross sort of way?
You’d definitely get spotters there. It’s an ideal place for it. As for other activities… Never in daylight!
ok, i’ll concede you can do both at the same time, but neither particularly well i assume.
Interesting. Pull some numbers together scottser – the next night you’re up there.
no bother hoop, but if your reg plate comes up don’t blame me..
Well I know I wasn’t plane spotting any time I was there.
I was on a flight that landed in Dublin at about 9 last night. It was the most stomach churning landing I have ever experienced and reminded me of being on a boat in very choppy water. The plane was still shaking considerably after we landed and we had to wait the bones of an hour to disembark due to the conditions.
It gets worse when flights are diverted. You may be able to land somewhere else, but a number of unexpected arrivals causes nightmares for ground handling crews.
As my ol’ granpappy used to say “better to arrive 12 hours late in this life than 30 years early into the next.” I love pilots who put safety above schedule.
“Alive and late than dead on time”
Nothing as bad as touching down only for the place to immediately take off again for another 20 minutes of airborne hump back bridges.
Love how everyone here is a total f**in expert on flying. I don’t have a clue if this was a difficult landing or not, but having watched this I think the pilot’s a bit of a wuss (my old boss was on on of these flights. The pilot said after they landed that he enjoyed this landing much more. It was interesting unlike what they have to do most of the time).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-LNg7yH1lc
It’s the windshear that’s the problem more than the crosswinds. Getting suddenly forced towards the ground or off to one side does not make for a good landing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3SDtn3w_rc