PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - A320 Crosswind Take Off technique
View Single Post
Old 25th February 2004 | 03:01
  #20 (permalink)  
GearDown&Locked
 
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 431
Likes: 0
From: LPPT
Related to the A321 landing;

Some 4 to 6 months ago, a TAP A321 tried to land in LPPT in heavy and gusty crosswind, made the crab technique until some 10/15 ft and almost hit the ground with the right wing when lined up w/ the runway, caused by a quick and sudden roll movement; the second attempt was even worse, w/ the a/c swerving along the runway, right after lining up, the right wing, again, dangerously close to the tarmac. In both cases the a/c never touched down, and it took a lot of sidestick'in to make the bus "behave" again. I can imagine that an A320 in the same situation would be a lot worse, due probably to inertial force diferences between the two a/c's.
GearDown&Locked is offline