Remember your first landing?

A Lieberman wrote:

Look at the wind sock to the right of the runway 3 seconds into the
movie.

It appeared to me that the 747 had a quartering tail wind / crosswind.

Camera angle seemed a little deceptive, and it may have been a true
crosswind situation or....

It's possible there is a little of both. There was only one runway
there, and winds come from all directions. The approach was tricky,
since aircraft had to make a steep descent down the front of some hills
at a 45 degree angle to the runway, and then turn to align with the
runway at the last moment. Pilots frequently misjudged either height or
alignment, and had to abort the landing. Some still tried to land
anyway, to avoid a long reentry to the pattern. The resulting landings
weren't very graceful.

There are many videos of muffed approaches to the airport. I provided a
link to one more in a separate posting.