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An Airbus A320-200 Lufthansa nearly crashed during a crosswind approach on the runway 23 at the airport Hamburg International (EDDH) on 1st march 2008 in Germany. Extreme landing or approach. Crash. Left wing touched the runway. Crazy. Hard and dangerous. Funny landing. Storm Emma 2008 in Germany (Hamburg EDDH). After.... more

Singapore Airlines Landing at Zurich Airport with extreme crosswinds.

plane attempts to land in crosswind

Took my co-worker Alex for a flight. All the credit for this video goes to him. He has an amazing sense of camera. I always wanted to see how my gears close to the runway and he did it. Could be used as a nice crab technique demonstration for crosswind landings. You might want to check this out too http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y6-ZpdqKWbI

Windy landing in Brussels 31.01.08

VIP (CRJ)Canadian-Regional-Jet CRJ-600 84 Challenger 600s were delivered into 1983. Most were later upgraded with winglets to the "Challenger 600S" configuration. The Canadian Armed Forces obtained a dozen Model 600s, with seven configured as "CE-144" electronic support and training aircraft; one.... more

that was a deadly crosswind

This video is of Aircraft tests during High crosswinds. The third one is amazing.

Birmingham International Airport in the UK has a single runway, which, unfortunately, is roughly at right angles to the prevailing wind direction. The runway is also rather undulating from one end to the other. This video shows two landings by Boeing 737s on a day in March 2008 when the wind was about 60 degrees to the runway, and gusting to 45 or 50 mph.

Crosswind Landing Testing - This little item shows the Boeing factory determining the demonstrated crosswind landing limits on the 777 and the 747SP. The engineers make educated guesses, but then the test crews have to go actually prove the numbers. They sneak off to Brazil to do these tests at a certain remote BAF.... more