Pilot Destroys Plane Wing
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You owe us 4 seconds of aviation
How dare he
There is also the intro and outro, so it’s more like 40 seconds
Ik😂
I hereby declare that his next video should be 3 minutes and 3 seconds.
And 15 seconds more...too much fluff at beginning.
It was my wife who recorded the wing strike. I was seated several rows behind her, and I was unaware that the wing had hit. It seemed like the right main gear was the only wheels that touched down (and pretty harshly) before we throttled up and went airborne again. It was probably 10 minutes before the pilot got on the PA, and simply said that we were going to come back around and land. We were met on the ground by a bunch of emergency vehicles, and I don't think that most of the passengers were aware that the wing had hit the runway.
Being the adventurous type, I thought it was cool! ☝😃👍
Awesome, would love to see this in real life (as long as it happens anyways) 🤷🏻♂️👍🏻
Did she alert a stewardess to show the pilot the video? I hope so.
sure...
@@Heike-- She tried to show it to several of the airline and airport officials, but none of them seemed to want to see it. We did not see the pilot.
Your wife was pretty cool about it as well, mine would have had kittens lol
Love how casual the passengers were about the wingtip strike
How was it more serious?
@@garymitchell5899 It wasn’t, but the potential for it to have dug in was high.
No, there is no significant potential that it will "dig in".
Nothing was on fire, and nothing critical was falling off.
Last thing you want is to panic all the passengers who can’t see how trivial the damage is.
You guys are crazy to say that a wingtip strike is routine or low risk. They’re lucky they had enough energy to fly away without the plane settling onto the wing. This was the definition of an unstable approach. You’re not brushing the ground with a winglet unless you already should’ve gone around. Everybody on that flight was extremely lucky.
"Unusually large control inputs" sounds like a technical euphemism for "the pilot was having a really tough time on this one".
that was a tough landing... loads of elevator too.
Not necessarily
Watch the ailerons on the wing and the elevator on the tail...wow, flapping like a duck.
Another euphemism is "Pilot Induced Oscillation"
His 'Stable Approach' was like my coming back home after the bar at 3.. ;)
The passengers were surprisingly calm during this wing strike. Also, this lower winglet has a multi-purpose as a wing guard, it seems : )
For real, was expecting some screams or gasps.
@Sn0w Controller Yes, I saw that comment from the recording person just now. The wing absorbed the bump pretty well.
I’m not sure why boeing decided to use split schimi’s and not jsut have one sharklet on each side
blended wingley things
@@deltafox757 Only stupid overly dramatic americans would scream and say "oh my god did you see that ?!?!?!" like an idiot.
1:19 the korean air landing is exactly my average "landing" in MSFS20
That's what I was thinking. It totally looked like a Flight Simulator landing on the nearby taxiway before heading straight to the tower for a glitch sandwich
that low visibility landing was epic..it must have made those pilots very happy to experience
I find a majority of pilots find landing a happy experience! 😊
Way better than the alternatives
A low vis landing is when you dont see the runway at all before minimums.
Yeah that wasn’t low visibility at all….
@@mdsx01 no it is not. I recommend brushing up on your definitions if you are an actual pilot.
1:44 does anybody else find this to be just a beautiful scene?
Wow, I’d be pretty nervous being on that Korean Air.
Think you be more nervous being on that United flight.
-that +any. ANC was a KAL merry go round when I lived on that side of town.
@@se-kmg355 accurate
Well, you should be more nervous if you specifically chosen Asiana 777 to fly from SK to SF.
I would go as far as saying it was the runway that destroyed the wing tip
Exactly the runway raised up by itself
The title had "let" removed from the end for dramatic effect. The pilot then performed a successful single wing go-around and landing.
The runway came out of nowhere to hit the wing tip, pilot could not see it coming. ;-)
Yes..The Goober Dude who writes the headings for 3 Minute of Aviation is Named…”KAREN”;
I hate it when runways wreck wingtips! It is almost as bad as what tree trunks do to certain cars..
0:19
Captain: Do you think anyone noticed?
Co-pilot: I hope not. Let's just keep going.
The look of the milan landing is crazy
beautiful
Landing in Milan (same airport, same runway) during night time was the trigger that pushed me to obtain a pilot's license... It's magical.
usually fog is much more dense during this period of year.
a very rare sight on that mxp landing.
Amazing lack of correction on that United 737 wing strike until after it had made contact. I wonder how close the engine cowling was to contacting the ground as well?
It looks like the pilot was inputting left roll since the spoilers were in the full down position just prior to the wing strike. But yeah, weird that there was so little correction.
a mile off
@@VyarkX They're full down when you're not correcting too. You can see the aileron doesn't move like he's correcting till after it hit and they even had a right roll input right before it hit. I don't know what the hell those pilots were thinking but they're morons.
It was very close, but that is why 737 has flat engine cowling bottoms, so they are not the first thing that hit the runway in case like this. The wing hits first if the wheels are on the ground but with enough wing flex it is very possible the engine hits too. It you tilt a 737 on it's side, it is just barely the wing that is the first to make ground contact and that leaves engine cowlings few inches room.
@@RoyalMela cowls were designed like that because historically 737 was designed for a smaller airport with less sophisticated baggage handlers machineries. Their landing gear are lower than airbus thus, the engine cowl must be flat to give more clear space from the ground.
The winglet went from split scimitar to single scimitar. lol
Finally we find out the other use of split scmitar 😁
With one 'scim' of the runway surface!
You can see it's runway 13 from the window! The plane not only touched down way too early but also very, very far from the runway centerline! What were those Delta pilots thinking about!? It was also a LOC RW22 circling approach to RW13, but what a poor circling attempt! Right main gear touched the ground, this was not a go-around but a rejected landing. Really, really dangerous situation. The weather wasn't even that bad (scattered clouds at 2500 ft with 10 knots wind). Frightening stuff.
It definitely appears to be a United paint scheme winglet.
The Chinook is the best taxi you'll ever get in and just the sound of it makes you feel like things are about to get better. I've been in many helo's flown by many different nations in some real sticky places and I stand by the opinion that RAF Chinook pilots are the best pilots in the world, they are literal life savers.
I never liked flying in the Ch47. Loud bucket of bolts and very unformfortable specifically if you are in full battle rattle! 26 years of military life and I just retired in August, 22. I’m done!!!!
@@SuperchiefApacheAgreed. I was with a CH46 squadron in the Marines and they're loud as heck!
Having a wingtip strike is bad, but the fact it touched the runway 15ft past the threshold means they were crazy low on that approach. Normally you should cross the threshold at 50ft, not 5ft
Who tf is hiring these pilots?
I can't say I've ever seen anyone porpoise BEFORE they touch down.
They didn’t do it on porpoise.
purpose
Guess how I know your not a CFI lol
@@SgfGustafsson LOL Touche!
i would bet to say everyone who has ever flown has porpoised at least once in their flying career
*How to turn a Boeing 737 MAX into a regular 737:*
That split-scimitar winglet got filed down to a non-split-scimitar with a shredded dangling thingy 😅
More like 737-400
@@aperson6000 737-200 if he somehow mutilated his plane
that is why it did not crash after contact
that was not a 737 MAX
That wingtip scratch really coulda went south. A little more right roll and he would have dug in possibly sending the plane to the right of the runway before he could do a go-around.
I doubt the incredible mass of the rest of the aircraft would have been effected by about 4 feet of thin metal digging in slightly. Probably would have gotten to the bottom surface of the wing before flattening out and just bending the whole wing upwards.
nah...do you think the engineers who designed that plane didnt account for the possibility of a wing tip strike??? that wing tip outer, lower strip is titanium, you can tell from the color of the sparks.....they pop a new wing tip on in a couple of hours and good to go. Planes are FAR more resilient than you give them credit for
@@ssnerd583 That plane's probably gonna be grounded for a few weeks at the least for a serious inspection tbh, wings are usually not designed to take much force at the tips. You can see it bend quite a fair bit in the video.
As for the wingtip material, it's made of mostly aluminum I believe (The titanium sparks you see might be from titanium bolts? It seems rather ineffective to use such a heavy and expensive material that far out on the wing on a commercial aircraft). The bigger concern is an engine digging in; usually pilots are told to not proceed with an unstable approach, and being able to see the runway numbers from a passenger window counts as an unstable approach I think lol. It's not often that you get to have the tip of a wing touch the ground without tearing the engine to shreds, but hey, anything can happen lol
@@kelly2631 ....Cupcake, I became an FAA licensed A&P mechanic in 1983 and worked for a couple of the top 10 USA airlines.
I have more than just an IDEA about some of this.
737's have wing mounted engines and cannot 'crab' as much as an aircraft that has engines on the tail like a DC9 or MD80 kind of airplane....the engineers know that wingtips may strike the runway at times like this and they have designed in various safety features....
Depending on the extent of the damage, and I have no experience with the 737-700, it COULD be a fairly simple repair of replacing the wingtip and done. Of course the inspectors will do their thing and poke and probe and all that to make sure....but....yeah it IS possible that it could take a while to repair. I doubt that it was a very serious event
@@ssnerd583 the repair job will be easy, wingtip attachments are often retrofitted on aircraft anyway. I’m just talking about the fact that wings are usually not designed to take these types of loads, and that there was indeed a huge amount of bending on a part that usually doesn’t bend that much. It would be unwise to just swap out winglets and not inspect the ribs.
As for engineers designing wingtips to touch the ground, yes, they do design wingtips to hit the ground here and there, but I don’t think that dragging the wingtip across the ground while bending the entire wing maybe 6 feet upwards from just the last 1/3 of the span is something that they would design for.
And as it turns out, the aircraft was turned around in 15 hours, so I suppose that you’re right on that front.
For Milan standards it's not classified as low visibility conditions, it's more like a sunny day
The low-viz A330 landing was just beautiful!
He just converted the split scimitar winglet into a blended winglet
They downgraded their upgraded 737NG-WS to regular 737NG-W lol
I have flown into LaGuardia for years, in DC9’s, MD80’s and 757’s, probably 80 times. It’s an airport that’s unforgiving, and often had windy conditions and may be raining/wet runway. You CANNOT be off anything, or it will bite you. The secret of gettin in there, is to NOT be intimidated by it. Pilots who are nervous about flying in there, do not do as well as pilots who are very competent, and most importantly relaxed😉
Exactly
well it could also be not wanting to go around to save the airline fuel and turning the airplane on time for its next flight, otherwise how would they get their big promotion with pay rise they been dreaming of?
*I love flying into LaGuardia so much.*
@@earlaweese as a pilot or as a passenger? It can be nerve wracking for both. Fun for passengers, if pilot is calm and experienced there👍🏻
what do you think of express way 31.
A lot of people are commenting on the wing strike but as a pilot of this type I'm also concerned about WHERE the strike occurred. The wing struck the runway at the very beginning. Well, well, WELL short of the touchdown zone. Meaning the plane almost hit the runway edge similar to Asianna years ago. It begs the question: what else was going on to cause this or what were the pilots aiming for? I hope more information on this flight comes to light to help it as a learning tool/experience.
He was about 300 feet short of the touchdown aiming point and just 100 feet beyond the edge. And the wingtip touched the ground almost at the centerline and plane was veering heavily to left, even more it was off center to left to begin with.
I'm no real pilot but I too raised an eyebrow at such early touchdown (or tipdown, lol). Also pilots didn't seem to be fighting strong winds, at least from a cursory look at control surfaces. What are the odds of a wee gust doing this to a seemingly (at least until last seconds) stabilized approach?
Wake turbulence or wind shear maybe
@@XIIchiron78 That's what I was thinking.
@@XIIchiron78 no, it would not make the airplane go off centerline.
Man you’re right. That wing was SOOOO destroyed. Miracle they could fly.
2:01 - When the airplane talks about you... 😀 - Yes my little Airbus, you are not wrong.
2:24 Thanks for the great video. Weymouth in UK looks lovely: very picturesque. It actually reminds me of some parts of the Australia coastline, mainly along NSW and VIC.
I grew up in Weymouth; it used to have a big naval base next door at Portland, with a naval air station too, so you'd get a lot of helicopters over the town and beach. The Chinooks were probably doing something with the SBS (seaborne version of the SAS) -their main base is in Poole, not far from Weymouth.
I landed on that same runway at LaGuardia a few weeks ago at 2am, flying Delta, the pilot touched down on the back right gear and the whole plane pulled sideways and very off center. It was kind of terrifying for a split second.
What’s up with everyone having bad luck on that runway?
I heard that’s it’s a really difficult runway to land on very short or something and the terrain is difficult not a hundred percent sure why.
i had a similar experience in october going into lga. the winds were high and the runways being short didn’t help
@@la-ariemartinez3184 that would make sense honestly. it caught me off guard being so close to the water when landing there. it looks so much closer in person.
@@la-ariemartinez3184 The runways at LGA (actually the entire airport) have the East River and Flushing Bay next to them, making it tough no matter which way you come in.
Their lengths are as follows:
Runway 13/31 Dimensions: 7003 x 150 ft. / 2135 x 46 m
Runway 4/22 Dimensions: 7001 x 150 ft. / 2134 x 46 m
Wind sheer.
The runway "split" the scimitar winglet😂
0:20 Yeah that's definitely one of the things you don't want to see in the passenger seat.
Hey there! Really love your plane videos.
The pilot didn’t “destroy” the wing. He hit the scimitar which is designed to tear off. The wing will receive an inspection but it will be fine
_It's just a flesh wound._
shit will buff out.
Damn, that was a close call. He should have gone around earlier as it was waay too late to try and correct the alignment with the runway
Pilot didn't "destroy" plane's wing, he merely scraped it.
That disgusted "continue" from the Italian is EXACTLY how we sound anytime someone instructs us to do something. That was hilarious.
In regards to the wingtip strike. This is what a pilot friend of mine is said about it
" Yikes. What's worse is the wing tip strike is on the centreline of the runway. Looks like La Guardia Runway 13. On the left of the runway is water for the first 1000'."
0:17 It's insane how you can see the spoilers still flicking up which means the pilot turning the yoke to the right. (When the plane is already banking to the right and just a few seconds from touchdown) Makes me wonder if the pilots intentionally want to see a wingtip strike?🤣
He was off center line and was trying to correct for it when he should have done a go around already. Pilot error
@@JimNortonsAlcoholism Agreed. He was VERY off centerline. Pretty egregious for a professional pilot.
@@JimNortonsAlcoholism And the plane was veering even more to left. First contact was at the innermost of six threshold markings on right side of the centerline and tip scraped as far as between the runway number markings. So he was going 15 feet to left during that 50 feet of scraping.
You're not a pilot are you?
You can see him go full left on the aileron for almost a second before touchdown.
0:20 i’ve never seen footage that clear of an incident of a plane wing being damaged without the camera being dropped or anything
@2:02 imagine hearing that word everytime you land a plane... it would get me down after a while! Ha
Great content, keep it up
My grandmother’s ex-girlfriend’s stepson’s girlfriend’s uncle’s business partner’s second cousin’s youngest daughter’s chiropractor’s cleaning lady’s husband’s boss almost took the flight where the wing touched.
Prayers
“Ladies and gentlemen, for those of you on the right side of the aircraft with marshmallows, please feel to toast them on our burning winglet.”
🤣
0:57 that's me in every flight simulator
😮never seen a wingtip strike so definite. That could of ended horribly
Ah, start of a new channel? 2 minutes, 57 seconds of aviation? 🤣
I'm just salty because I love the content so it feels like we lost out a bit
Then watch it on half speed for almost a full 6 minutes.
Very cool! ✈️
It’s the pavement that destroyed the wing, not the pilot.
I live in Weymouth and this is pretty regular thing along with ospreys , Merlin’s , wildcats , sea kings and the occasional apache . They use the heli ops facility in the old coast guard base to refuel and even the old rfa ship in the harbour for fast roping on to the ship
You own us 3 mins of aviation!
That’s why approach is maybe the most important part of a landing. If you have a bad approach, it’s not safe to land. If you land hard, but had a stable approach and landed on the runway, it’s not unacceptable.
1:10 looks like Ryanair changed livery.
Have you even flown with Ryanair?
You can see the numbers on the runway before the wingstrike meaning the plane was totally off the center line and was about to land on grass. Should have been a go around long before.
Videos like this that help demonstrate the incredible skill of the inexperienced pilot who managed to score a direct hit on the Pentagon with the 757 he was flying. He put these pilots on the video to shame, with their go-arounds, wing tip hits and rough landings.
Thank you for putting both the thumbnail and title at the very beginning of the video. ❤
Those two rotor hilos come over the house once in awhile. You can hear them coming for miles. They really pound the air.
Same here, near hexham. They have flown by about quarter mile or half mile away, and you can feel the pressure waves. Awesome machines.
that was not low visibility at all.. it's easy to refer to the lights..
Love it guys thank you
wow the guys in the Swiss and in the Korean must have been shaken !!!
Wing strike is amazing!!
That A330 autoland in the fog was 🤌 pristine.
thanks, always enjoy the show, I saw lots of Chinooks and Jolly Greens in Nam
1:40 is crazy beautiful. Haven't seen footage like it.
I did a wing strike with my Cessna. It was much cheaper to fix.
How do you wing strike a high wing? Were you banked like 60 degrees.
Given Cessna's are high wing aircraft a wing strike would require a huge bank angle. Sounds like you were very lucky to have not destroyed the aircraft.
@@AnthonyHigham6414001080 he probably hit his head on it during preflight 😂
@@Bren39 plot twist: he flies a citation.
@@THYB737 he said he was "cheaper to fix". Citation repairs most likely not cheap... So no plot twist.
United 737 Touchdown moment may be disrupted by Crosswind
Really great clips, thanks
Bob
England
A330: " *I can land myself in some fog!* "
L1011: "_*Hah, nice one kid, I can land 💯 no visibility myself 40 years ago now.*_"
Dang, that first one badddd 😬
The lights on the runway (low visibility clip) are they all inset into the runway so they don't get clipped by any landing gear?
Yes
That’s the calmest reaction to a plane nearly losing its wing
1:26 I started laughing at the same time as the people in this clip, seeing that poor pilot struggling to get down and end up bouncing so hard, just comically rough
So what was the big deal about the low vis approach? I've done manual landings in much worse conditions
They have ATIS...... and probably disengage AP once runway on sight
@@alexdevTF that's quite standard isn't it
That WASN’T LOW VISIBILITY!!!
Yeah CAT3B I didn't see anything till the nose wheel came on....75m is bloody nothing
The one landing with the fog everywhere it looked like a runway in the sky for the first part. LOL 👀
0:55 - reminds me of the bouncy landing in that "This is Skechbooker" video!
The first time I went to Milan, we were on a 747 and he went missed due to fog and held for a half our after an attempted approach. The 2nd try went fine. This was in 1988 about a month after the Red Brigade shot up the Rome airport, so, we were greeted on the tarmac by soldiers all over the place...
👏👏👏👏👏👏. Lindo lindo demais ✈️✈️
No wing strike..pilot just left his signature on the runway 🤣🤣
Excellent video!
Thats NOT low visibility my friend... You could see the whole runway.. Come back when its thick fog
The visibility along the runway isn’t good, and certainly below minimums for cat 1 approaches. Just because the fog is patchy and the approach lights are fully visible doesn’t mean it’s not low viz conditions.
The wing hit the runway...just the tip!
It's ok, it's not part of the airplane
Scimitar winglet is just an addon for regular 737NG. It's replaceable.
The Chinooks are awesome. If you live along the west side of central London near the Thames, you'll see small groups of Chinooks and sometimes Apaches flying along the path of the river, landing somewhere north London. Was very cool when I was living there.
Amazing video!
Must be hard on the Airbus pilots to get insulted every time they land the plane.
I don't even want to know what the plane calls black pilots
Keeps them humble
@@mikewhipkey6863 SLAVES! SLAVES!
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This guy has be hassled SO MUCH by us on these videos.... So he doesn't narrate anymore 😂👏👏or is that another putz from another channel I'm thinking about!?!? 🤔😆
That Milan approach though. Straight out of a Disney movie
"PILOT DESTROYS PLANE WING!!!"
The "Destroyed wing" in question:
wow massive pilot error... could have led to worse
The Korean pilot must have purchased his license in India - fantastic landing🤣🤣🤣🤣
Great video!!!!
Those dodgy landings were priceless!
Having the winglets top and bottom probably makes aerodynamic sense but sure increases the chance of parts of the airplane that shouldn’t touch the ground do so.
0:53 I really wish we had the cockpit tape of this landing. Watching the flight surfaces and picturing all the inputs it required made me lol as it must’ve looked like the pf was having a seizure. Great job getting it down safe though 😊
I was looking for any altitude wing failures but that was interesting
First time subscriber... AWESOME!
Spectacular video wow
Why am i a glutton for punishment? I have an international flight coming up and here I am watching these videos...after experiencing a hard landing in Hong Kong due to a monsoon when I was a kid and a few years later another hard landing in Korea due to crosswinds...ah ya!!
Dude, for a split second I thought it was fake, but now I know that wingstrike was real! 😮
It's a lot more common than people realize. Experienced almost similar at JFK in NY and Heathrow in London. Both times the aircraft landed safely and with little to no damage!
Stunning indeed... I've been close to those things, they are _loud!!!_