r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Mr_Panda009 • 25d ago
Removed: Not NFL Pilots narrowly avoids crashing due to heavy winds from a tornado.
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u/Few-Yogurtcloset6208 25d ago
Hi this is your captain speaking, almost fucked that one, let me clean my underwear and try that again
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u/djr4917 25d ago
Sum Ting Wong
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u/RefuseAcceptable1670 25d ago
Wii Too Lov
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u/phoonie98 25d ago
Bang Ding Ow
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u/Figure7573 25d ago
Was this a confirmed Tornado or a Severe Downdraft!?!
I didn't see any rotation of the clouds...
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u/prettydistracted2 25d ago
Cyclone Fengal. Saw in another sub mentioning the video is from Chennai, India
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u/Figure7573 25d ago
The wording below the video states it as well.
A Cyclone or a Hurricane, the outer bands will commonly produce a Tornado or severe Downdrafts. A Downdraft will cause serious damage. Tornadoes that are from a Cyclone or Hurricane are usually smaller in size/diameter than those from a hot/cold weather front.
The swirling wind will be seen with a Tornado of this size.
Also, the Airport radar will see rotation forming a Tornado, well before the Airplane's approach for landing. A Downdraft is Very difficult to detect by any means, other than by a visual report.
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u/ecwagner01 25d ago
The Aircraft has doppler radar as well and can see a funnel cloud from a good distance. The outer bands of a
hurricanetyphoon can cause enormous crosswinds depending on the category of storm.More than a few people probably sharted a bit on that touchdown. I would have been one of them, unfortunately.
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u/Unordinary_Donkey 25d ago
This is technically a cyclone not a typhoon. But hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons are the same weather affect and just regional names for them. The only difference between the three is the location they are occuring at. If its in north west pacific its a typhoon, if its south pacfic its a cyclone and in the americas its hurricane.
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u/I_just_made 25d ago
This happened to me once! I think they got the back two wheels down, but there was a definite delay between the first and the second touching down. You could feel the shift in the plane's angle. Was wild. They immediately lifted back off and went to an airport that was about 100 miles away. We must have been one of the last planes they tried to land, as the airport shutdown right after and forced people to shelter in place.
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u/_nf0rc3r_ 25d ago
It’s called a go around and a very normal SOP if I recall.
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u/hypersonic3000 25d ago
Last time this happened on a flight I was on the flight attendant called it a "surrendered landing attempt". Never heard anyone else ever call it that.
Whatever you call it, it's unpleasant. Our plane felt like it went sideways right before the wheels touched. Then full throttle back up.
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u/Titan_Arum 25d ago
I once was on a flight that had 3 (!!!) surrendered landing attempts before successfully landing on the 4th try. The plane was eerily quiet the entire time.
Apparently, a strong cold front was coming through at exactly the same time we were landing and kept pushing the plane away from the runway as we attempted to land.
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u/aberroco 24d ago
That's kind of normal. Might've gone to a different airport on third attempt, but the pilot seem to decide it's possible to land safely. If third attempt would've failed, then you would have to go to a different airport.
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u/hypersonic3000 22d ago
Yikes. I'm pretty even keel, but when the plane went sideways, my immediate thought was, "well, we're dead". Going through that three times sounds hellish.
Our second attempt, the pilot took no prisoners, coming in hot and slammed the plane onto the runway. Hard ass landing, but no harm no foul I guess.
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u/tomaiholt 25d ago edited 24d ago
A go around should happen way before continuing a landing, at the decision height. I think this is just a missed approach, a very late missed approach.
Edit: I'm wrong
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u/Zealousideal_Echo589 25d ago
Not always. Wheels can touch tarmac and still perform a go-around.
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u/Whiskey_River_73 25d ago
Well yeah, a go around would still happen then, wouldn't it, given the other unsavory outcome? 🤷
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u/aberroco 24d ago
Nope, mostly wrong. Decision height is for instrumental approach, mostly. It's height at which you should clearly see runway to proceed. In any case, pilot may initiate go-around at any point, until he committed to land - i.e. turned on thrust reverses, brakes, have not enough runway ahead or not enough speed.
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u/tomaiholt 24d ago
I've now googled and see I'm wrong. There's a definition that even includes the 'bounce' in the vid. I'll keep my trap shut when I sense I'm talking out of my ass lol
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u/Triwki 25d ago
It’s more like touch and go procedure,if I’m not mistaken
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u/DeletedByAuthor 25d ago
Both exist, depending on how far you are into the landing procedure. This time it's a touch and go since the tyres connected to the runway.
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u/Triwki 25d ago
I know,but I tried to be polite while correcting the previous commentator.
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u/Sleijeri_ 25d ago
Landing after that would be a reason to give applauses, in any other normal scenario, would not applaud.
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u/JohnCharles-2024 25d ago
Coming in to land at Amarillo in 2018, we were in a storm. Just before landing, the plane was suddenly buffeted such that we were at around 80° bank to starboard. Pilot went around, couldn't land a second time, so we diverted to Oklahama City.
(I got to talk to the pilots next morning as we were about to fly back to Amarillo, and they confirmed the angle of bank. But they seemed absolutely unfazed)
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u/bigdickmemelord 25d ago
We should fly 20 planes from different angles into tornadoes to disperse their energy, or a atomic bomb
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u/pichael289 25d ago
Had to abort the landing, it's not uncommon in bad weather. When pilots land on aircraft carriers they have to hook one of the 4 wires on deck, they usually aim for the third wire, and if they don't they will fall off the edge and crash, so as soon as they touch down they have to full throttle it just in case they have to take off again.
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u/iamtrying_hard03 25d ago
That tree moving due to the wind. I thought there is a guy throwing up his hands in the air
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u/fgwr4453 25d ago
This doesn’t seem amazing. It seems like a pilot that doesn’t know when to call off a landing or to just land somewhere else.
I know that neither of those options are great but a crash landing is far worse. If you don’t know if it is safe to land, don’t try to land.
It could have been a tower issue but usually the pilot has enough information to make a good decision.
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u/aberroco 24d ago
I agree. The weather is defnitely far from perfect, the visibility is bad and you can see the wind is variable. Pilots should had much more information that what can be deduced from the video. So, it's likely that pilots took unsafe decision.
And no, it's not downdraft, at least not only downdraft. It won't cause tilt on one wing - that's on pilot.
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