You can always go around.

[planedriver]

[onetrack]

It's a credit to commercial aircraft engineering that so many of those aircraft actually survived the abuse being handed out to them!

 

 

[red750]

Here's another of those stomach churning approaches - this time at Dusseldorf. You'll have to endure the Gaviscon commercial first.

 

WATCH: Terrifying moment plane battles huge storm during landing

 

He had guts persisting with it.

 

 

[red750]

Commercial changed but video still there.

 

 

[Marty_d]

He had guts persisting with it.

I hope he'd ruled out all other options - ie diverting to another airport with less wind - before doing that one. Looked extremely hairy.

Last year my sister-in-law came down for a visit, I watched her plane make 2 approaches in high winds, and then give up and go back to Melbourne. Inconvenient, yes, but safe.

 

 

Words to live by! (Unless you're a glider pilot).