Originally Posted by
flyingins
Hi Guys,
Hop on YouTube and search for ‘Narita Crosswind landings’, or similar. Most of those videos are ‘normal’ windy days when any Sou-Wester above 25 knots will lead to multiple go-arounds as a result of moderate to strong windshear below 500 feet.
Typhoon Cimaron was a beast and although it didn’t directly hit Tokyo (it nailed Osaka, however - disabled all ground-based Navaids and damaged a runway at Kansai), it passed close enough to be very noticeable. What you’re seeing with this ANA 787 has nothing to do with control confusion. In my experience it’s exactly what you’d expect to see from any aircraft at Narita with winds of the force this Typhoon were generating.
I don’t see controls “reversal” as applicable. What it looks like is classic wind shear/microburst. Sudden increase in airspeed in the head wind, then abrupt decrease with loss of lift and altitude in the tailwind. The way the nose drops seems too rapid for elevators only... (thinking Eastern Lockheed 1011 at Dallas, in which I lost a friend)....