Darrell wrote:

James Robinson wrote:

The other video I remember of a landing in a crosswind, or more
accurately wind shear, was a UPS DC-8 landing at Denver. It was almost
dropped on the runway at about a 45 degree angle to the runway
alignment. Luckily, the pilot put the balls to the wall in time, and
just avoided a big mess.

I think that was at Ontario, California.

Thanks for the correction.

I have that video as a link on my B-58 Hustler home page shown
below. Once there, click on the Crosswind landing link.

B-58 Hustler History: http://members.cox.net/dschmidt1/

When I click on that link, I get the TAP attempt at Lisbon.

I searched around and found the following web site with the UPS plane,
plus a couple of others.

http://www.luftfahrt.net/download/videos/index.php

These are PKZip files, so you have to download them first, unzip them,
and then you can look at them. The note at the top says you need the
MPEG 4 Codec for the most recent additions, but also provides a link to
where you can get it.

There is also a video of an Alitalia MD-11 landing at the old Hong Kong
airport that shows the problems that showed up in landing there. You had
to fly at about 90 degrees to the end of the runway, then make a 45
degree turn toward the airport, and finally drop down at quite a steep
angle, before turning the final 45 degrees at the last moment to line up
with the runway. Aircraft frequently missed, and had to go around.
Many pilots still made the attempt, rather than go around, since with a
single runway, the pattern was often quite busy.