"Oz Lander" wrote in news:fqgu7o$2qk$1@news-
01.bur.connect.com.au:

Oz Lander wrote:

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

"Blueskies" wrote in
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"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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Well, he doesn't appear to have made any effort towards putting
the wing down at all. Not his fault.He was obviously never
taught how to do a crosswind landing properly. You'd be amazed
at how many airline pilots beleive that this is the way to do
it... Mostly, they get away with it. The crosswind doesn't
appear to be all that bad. From the drift angle, I'd reckon the
max compnenet to be under thirty knots and steady. Well within
the airplane's capability. He wasn't realy in trouble until the
flare.
Bertie

Bertie

Sounded gusty in the audio of the video...

Wel, the airplane is steady on the approach, so while there are
surely little variations in the wind, really gusty conditions would
have either the pilot or autopilot manipulating the airplane a bit
more than that. He's fine til he tries to kick it straight.



Bertie

The A320 has a crosswind landing limit of 33 kts gusting 38 kts

According to the data at the time, the wind was 35kts, gusting 55
kts.

The incident happened at 13:55 local time
The flight LH 044 (D-AIQP), an A320 from MUC (Munich)
The landing runway was 23 LOC-DME (ATIS gave no other option)
after the go-around the pilots elected runway 33 also LOC-DME
approach
and landed safely but minus the left winglet...
immediately after the incident ATIS gave runway 23 and 33 as well

For got the ATIS!
EDDH 011220Z 29028G48KT 9000 -SHRA FEW011 BKN014 07/05 Q0984 TEMPO
29035G55KT 4000 SHRA BKN008


Well, it's not 90 degrees, though that'd only knock 15% off the figures,
and the 35 gusting 55 is a tempo. it;'s only the actual they're giving
on the approach that matters at the time and there's no way of finding
out what that was on th enet AFAIK, someone might.
It's immaterial, however. The drift angle as he crossed the threshold
wasn't excessive and it's pretty clear no attempt was made to put the
right wing down, which is what was needed. If he had the controls
crossed to nearly max and the drift was still excessive then he would
have been exceeding what was the practical limit for the airplane. He
didn't. It may be that he couldn't ( I've e-mailed an A320 driver of my
acquantence to find out) but the relevance to everyone else is, that
that is exactly what will happen to any airplane if you try and "kick it
straight" as you flare.


Bertie