Video: A320 nearly crashes in crosswind landing

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Video: A320 nearly crashes in crosswind landing

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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ddb_1204404185

It apparently landed safely on the second attempt. Pretty wild though.
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holy crap. The wings look like they hit the ground. that had to be one hell of a ride. The fence gives a good prospective of how bad the wind was.
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Here's a whole page of cringing aircraft stuff (plus a few extras). I'm sure that one will be added soon enough.

http://www.micom.net/oops/
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That happened this last weekend and they DID scrape a wingtip:

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europ ... cnnSTCText
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