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Watch dramatic moment world’s largest passenger plane is forced into emergency manoeuvre as it’s buffeted by severe crosswinds
Giant A380 forced to undertake tricky crab move as it comes in to land at Manchester airport
THIS is the dramatic moment the world’s largest passenger plane is forced into an emergency manoeuvre as it’s buffeted by severe crosswinds.
The Emirates Airbus A380 was rocked violently as it came into land at Manchester Airport.
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It can be seen performing the special ‘crab’ landing technique to overcome the adverse conditions.
The manoeuvre sees an aircraft drifting to the side as it approached the runway in order to ensure it lands in the centre of it.
The wings of the A380 can be seen shaking above the rooftops of the city.
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It continues to move sideways before finally flying forwards and successfully landing.
The clip was taken last year but has recently reemerged online.
Dai Whittingham, chief executive of the UK Flight Safety Committee, explained that while crosswinds appear dangerous, they are an everyday occurrence.
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He said: “High winds in themselves are not dangerous but they can certainly be inconvenient, especially if the wind direction is across the runway.
“All pilots train to land in high crosswind conditions and will have practised to the aircraft limits in the simulator.
“When any new aircraft is certified to carry passengers it comes with a published crosswind limit which is the maximum that has been demonstrated by a test pilot during the certification process.
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“If the wind is outside that limit the crew will have to take the aircraft to an alternate airport where the wind is within limits (which means a runway that has less of a crosswind component).
“In practice, the wind is rarely aligned fully with the runway so there is always a slight crosswind to deal with, it is just the amount of it that varies.”
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