Tiger
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsp3jQxRSRM&feature=related
Dunno if its a pearoast but still, I'd be bending over and kissing my own arse goodbye if this had been me on there...
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Tommy L
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Yeah it has but good effort from the pilot
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Bart
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thats an epic fail
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gavin18787
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Registered: 22nd Feb 05
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 fook
piolets did well to save it
Assume the second attempt was all good
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ed
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That must have been one hell of a gust! The pilots did a good job recovering.
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sand-eel
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quote:
Originally posted by Bart
thats an epic fail
I would say it was an epic win, since it didn't crash in those conditions.
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noshua
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I don't mind flying but fuck me! I would have shit my pants atleaest twice.
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Gavin
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Pilot's got skillz
pew pew pew pewwwww
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Adam-D
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crikey
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p
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I think I would hope i was still having a snooze or something 
Fair play to the pilot though.
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ed
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There are some scary ones in here, and a few textbook ones too:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1185473/top_10_crosswind_and_scary_aircraft_landings/
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gavin18787
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quote:
Originally posted by ed
There are some scary ones in here, and a few textbook ones too:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1185473/top_10_crosswind_and_scary_aircraft_landings/
Some of those good ones the piolets must have been like yer
no denying theres some skill in that and you want them at the helm of your plane 
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ed
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I think they tend to look a lot more impressive from the outside, especially when you're in a long aircraft!
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gavin18787
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My only experiance of landing a plane is back with microsoft flight simulator 95 and not been able to do the cross wind landing challange 
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Skylined
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"There was a female co-pilot at the controls. Male pilot took the controls and recovered control of the aircraft to go around and make a sucessfull second attempt landing."
That explains it 
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Jambo
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Thats pretty much my worst nightmare
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fred7
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quote:
Originally posted by Skylined
"There was a female co-pilot at the controls. Male pilot took the controls and recovered control of the aircraft to go around and make a sucessfull second attempt landing."
That explains it
LOL,
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Hammer
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quote:
Originally posted by Jambo
Thats pretty much my worst nightmare
x2
I would have cried like a newborn child if I was aboard that plane.
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Jambo
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ANd i would be hugging you in tears Hammer
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ed
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I think the whole approach would have been rough as fuck. I think I would kiss the ground as soon as we got off 
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