Landing Gear Gets Hammered

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[@philipmason3218]

It's amazing how much punishment the gear can take, that's some serious engineering on show.

[@colorr-1238]

Now imagine if they made cars like that.

[@trainliker100]

@@colorr-1238 And then imagine how much cars would then cost.

[@andybenn]

Another spare gear order for us 😊

[@AnnicK.Zoloft]

The structure is more at risk than the gear which is very strong, wings and fuselage can end up bent after a really hard landing

[@VictheSecret]

The gear might well have needed a complete replacement after that, and who knows what damage was done to the airframe. It's unlikely that aircraft will have flown its next sector.

[@shikharkeshari009]

These aircraft go through such stress tests… A marvel of engineering! Hats off to the photographers who showed us these clips!

[@cmikesmith664]

The landing gear worked perfectly as designed.

[@thedeleted117]

No it did not, any harder landing than that and it would have potentially caved in / probably needs inspection anyway after that one.. But ok, smart ass

[@slinger7529]

@@thedeleted117 stupid comment no point in even replying to you with a rebuttal

[@leopardrdwot1957]

@@thedeleted117 lmao and what do you know about planes?

[@kevinriddell2105]

The description was the landing gear got hammered. I'd say that was accurate

[@thedeleted117]

@@leopardrdwot1957 I know enough. That was a very hard landing

[@frimmbits]

In Ryanair standards, that landing was smooth

[@wadehiggins1114]

😂

[@johnandrews3568]

And yet Mentour is a Ryan Air trainer captain.

[@jonslg240]

I've flown like 6x (12x takeoffs and landings) in the past 4 years on frontier and spirit, to Vegas no less (air is choppy esp during the summer) and all the takeoffs and landings have been smooth as silk. My home airport has a very steep descent profile because of buildings and they always land smooth here too. I only recall once where the landing was a little firm, but not bad (nobody was startled)

[@Teri_Berk]

@Chris I don't believe BA pilots would do so harsh landings as you describe. Never seen a BA landing excessively harsh among the videos I've watched so far.

[@Aquascape_Dreaming]

I've read comments in other videos where people claim that harder landings are better because it means the aircraft is more stable and easier to control on the ground. While some of that *might* be true, I'm not fully convinced that harder landings are better for the aircraft long term. I know they're built to withstand it, but that doesn't mean you should do it every time...

[@locoHAWAIIANkane]

@1:03 - I thought that said “FlyingPigs” for a second. 🤣

[@avgeek3]

Never thought I would see Vueling!

[@Nafeels]

The MD-11 has a tendency to bounce compared to other aircraft though. There’s two hull losses thanks to bouncy MD-11s.

[@Owlventure_Aviation]

And both were fedex

[@nicopeursum8208]

Actually the MD11 does not have a pronounced tendency to bounce. I flew MD11 for 8 years and never had a bounce. However, if you do bounce there is only one correct response: go around, which this crew did. When the spoilers deploy the plane has a tendency to pitch up, which is clearly visible in this video. It is very difficult to recover a landing from that. There have been several DC10 and MD11 hull losses due to asymmetrical hard landings with the gear strut bottoming out and shearing off the rear wing spar, resulting in the plane flipping on its back…

[@bramv1984]

@@nicopeursum8208 Thanks a lot for the insight!

[@marcmcreynolds2827]

Here are some numbers to go with the Narita accident, where continuing an approach which had become unstable* led to a few NLG-first bounces followed by "The airplane sink rate was estimated to be 21.5 fps at the third touchdown. It is highly probable that the airplane's kinetic energies at the third touchdown exceeded the certification requirements by almost seven times." * "The range of CAS fluctuation was from 152 to 180 kt which was 12 kts slower and 16 kts faster than the selected approach speed of 164 kts. This exceeded the stabilized approach criteria. The pilot monitoring called "stabilize" and most likely let the pilot flying continue approaching, disregarding airspeed deviation of more than Vapp plus 10 kt."

[@bbayerit]

That Vueling jet bounced right over the third and fourth wires! Those crazy naval aviators will do anything for a thrill! 😁😜😈

[@bobmarlowe3390]

Here's a story about hammering landing gear. While the aircraft carrier I was on was in the Mediterranean, the Admiral from the base in Naples, Italy wanted to get in some flight time, so he borrowed an A-7E Corsair from one of the squadrons. When he came in for a landing, he hit so hard that he completely collapsed the landing gear. Needless to say, that plane didn't fly again until it got back to NAS Cecil Field to be rebuilt.

[@KNR90]

Completely irrelevant even if true

[@guyincognito.]

Here's another story about aviation. While I was working at an airport, a pilot flew a plane so hard that it broke. Needless to say, that plane had to be fixed before it could fly again.

[@bobmarlowe3390]

@@KNR90, the title of the video is 'Landing Gear Gets Hammered'. I related a 100% true story of a US Navy Admiral hammering the landing gear of a plane he was flying. How is that irrelevant?

[@melllovfx]

was the entire plane including the airframe rebuilt or just the landing gear? i cant imagine how hard he would have to land to have the plane rebuilt.

[@bobmarlowe3390]

@@melllovfx, that I can't say. I only saw it briefly in the hangar after we got back to Cecil Field. I worked in one of the Intermediate Maintenance Avionics Shops, so I never had much contact with the squadron. It was in pretty bad shape, though. They may have just written it off and cannibalized it.

[@commerce-usa]

Hats off to the ARFF team who were there the instant that 737 with the gear failure stopped. 👍

[@felisconcolor1112]

3 Minutes of Aviation: Bad Hop Grounder Edition!

[@SPak-rt2gb]

Pilots must be Navy with those hard landings

[@floppycheese96]

how many people do you reckon stopped to pick up their luggage as the slides were being deployed on that last on

[@TheStuport]

With such a Windy Video, it's no surprise that we saw fire and Smoke in the end! I bet many who are inside those planes as they bounce around on the tarmac are literally holding their collective breath and possibly making a "few promises"! Even for a person who has been through that, it can't be overlooked. Cheers From The Clouds In Ohio To All Who Fly 3 minutes Of Aviation Airlines!

[@tr_g]

When the runway becomes run away in no time. Engineering at its best! Your videos are the best. Thank you.

[@andrewbilly]

The FedEx MD-11 bounced landing happened few years ago. I was one of the pilot who were ready in sequence on taxi way. The NRT tower kept asking FedEx's pilot whether they had a tailstrike or not. The wind was really bad that day. During our approach, the wind got plus 20 and minus 10 on short final.

[@tonyclifton1278]

Standard spring day at Narita

[@barbadolid5170]

Someone is getting hired by Ryanair

[@Jay-hr3rh]

It never ceases to amaze me the power of the jet engines.

[@nejlak741]

Excellent selection

[@DustinPlatt]

1:03 Computer: V1 Co-Pilot: Rotate Pilot: Like, the whole plane?

[@fromaggiovagiola9128]

I don't know where you get your information but at 2:45 was the LA to Chicago O'Hare flight where all the pilots got food poisoning and a passenger had to land the plane. He was an ex-Military pilot named Ted Striker.

[@mkvv5687]

Everybody counted on him.

[@Kaitydid74]

Shirley you have to be kidding

[@tonyf9076]

We gotta get these people to a hospital, why what is it ? Its a big building with doctors and nurses but that's not important right now...

[@Aviation-Travel]

Great clip my friend!! Nicely done ✅

[@KannabisMajoris]

Love me an A320-heavy episode!

[@hawaiidispenser]

1:04 Interesting that if you are seated in the rear of the plane, you ARE actually going down at the moment of takeoff due to the position of the wheels on the plane.

[@beehard44]

you'll feel this at the last few rows of the 77W on rotation since it's quite extended back from the main gears it feels like you get lighter suddenly, followed by being pressed down abruptly on your seat once the rotation stops and you start to feel the upward push of lift

[@hawaiidispenser]

@@beehard44 Exactly! It's a confusing sensation if you're not used to it.

[@solapowsj25]

The landing is safe 😊 ; bounce is expected. Birmingham, UK 🇬🇧is lucky to have such a good pilot for the Vueling A329.

[@northernlight696]

The Fedex MD11 bounce reminds me of the MD11 crash and burn at Tokyo Narita a few years ago.

[@BwInNewJersey]

That hard landing bounce had to be fun in the cabin 🙃

[@rickytavilla4259]

I was wondering how much they felt if. I’ve felt little bounces before. I’m flying tomorrow morning maybe i shouldn’t be watching these

[@BwInNewJersey]

@@rickytavilla4259 lol youll be good. That bounce definitely bounced them up in their seats and got a good scream from the cabin.

[@rickytavilla4259]

@@BwInNewJersey seriously it was that bad? Wow I honestly didn’t know

[@BwInNewJersey]

@@rickytavilla4259 yea the way you can tell is the bounce was enough energy to send the plane back up in the air.

[@jasper_north]

WHEN WAS THIS…

[@sj_gamingx]

2:15 - fedex flight 80 2.0!?!!?

[@justagarlic]

as a mechanic these are so so interesting. we don't know about airplanes but. it's always a big mechanical bird

[@hr35rasmus]

My father designed the undercarriage of the Arbus A320…..which was used as a template for all the later Airbus planes………sadly now deceased he was also a great dad……..😊

[@cykz2004_dwimmy_the_oof]

Landing gear more satisfying than butter

[@GabroPlayz]

0:16 Ryanair: *YOUR HIRED! CONGRATS!*

[@JamesAMG]

Man, that FedEx MD11 landing seemed awfully close to ending up upside down like the other ones. If I remember correctly the landing gear and/or wing spar fails and high wing flips the plane over in its back.

[@Aquascape_Dreaming]

I've never seen any videos of planes being flipped into their backs. That really happens?

[@Aquascape_Dreaming]

Nevermind, just noticed a pilot on another thread making the same comment about MD11s flipping onto their backs. Crazy!

[@JamesAMG]

@@Aquascape_Dreaming Google it, you’d be shocked just how many times that exact thing has happened.

[@itzrenzo8960]

this guy shows the exact video of what we wanted to see first respect

[@akoll6138]

oh hey that almost looked like the first landing that I had in my 172 when i was learning to fly

[@EuroAviationTV]

Nice 1 mate thank for sharing ✅

[@MaryClareVideos]

Love your channel. Just subscribed. ✈️😺

[@3MinutesofAviation]

Welcome! :)

[@RonBand01]

One of your best posts !

[@doglover31418]

If a crew get an undercarriage alert after takeoff, wouldn't it make sense to complete the flight? Returning at once means landing heavy with full fuel load. Why not burn it by flying to where you're going?

[@SpongebobSoundByte]

Sometimes the destination doesn't have maintenance infrastructure to fix something like that.

[@TheRealNaggoN]

I wonder if there are scenarios when a fault like that could make it dangerous to climb too high or fly too fast. Like if a hatch dosn't close propperly or so.

[@mkvv5687]

@@SpongebobSoundByte That's what I was thinking, or an inflight emergency makes them have to land at a less capable airfield. Although with landing gear issues, I would want to be as light as possible.

[@MyNotSoHumbleOpinion]

Not if the landing gear can't be retracted correctly! Too risky to complete the flight or even staying airborne to burn fuel!

[@bryanteverson4071]

Flying with the gear down consumes too much fuel to continue on because of drag and the slower airspeed.

[@EasyModeFishing]

Trees just in time to block our view of the tail strike

[@bikeny]

While nothing like it, I was thinking, just like the Zapruder film.

[@Zerpersande]

Reminds me of a joke. After that plane landed the pilot was at the exit saying good bye to all the passengers. One old lady stoped and said ‘Can I ask you one question?’ The pilot said ‘Sure, go ahead.’ The old lady asked ‘Did we land or were we shot down?’

[@brianpeace7585]

awesome compilation

[@worldaviation4k]

*I had one of AF doing 3x go arounds once at Manchester but the airline were fast to delete it*

[@bobwoods1302]

Landing's always look harder than they are from behind but good lord he really did slap that down. 😂

[@AnimalisMD]

It amazes me how wind can throw off a large aircraft, but that just goes to show you how delicate the physics of flight are.

[@ahmeduygun7320]

It is important to note that the phenomenon of flight is inherently tied to the behavior of air. Therefore, the motion of an aircraft can be influenced by the natural movements of the surrounding air. In this sense, the ability of wind to impact the trajectory of a large aircraft is not surprising, as it is a consequence of the delicate and intricate interplay between the aircraft and its environment.

[@AnimalisMD]

@@ahmeduygun7320 Well said!

[@Aquascape_Dreaming]

​@@ahmeduygun7320 very well said. It's also the difference between a square block weighing the same as the airplane, but not able to ride wind currents due to it's shape. The very thing that allows planes to fly in the first place is the same thing that makes them vulnerable to unstable winds.

[@mjshorty19]

Hey I got hammered last night too but it was on margaritas not a runway

[@waldoinaz]

After that first landing, it was reported that everyone onboard was 3.5" shorter.

[@FozzyZ28]

It's nuts watching these planes land sideways!!!🤪

[@Aquascape_Dreaming]

Totally. I've never experienced it myself on any of the flights I've been on. I don't think I really want to experience it, either. Especially if I'm seated near the tail end of the plane.

[@pilbomags488]

Many of them do

[@FozzyZ28]

@@pilbomags488 😂😖🤦‍♂️

[@glenmoss02]

Mean ol' Mr. Gravity strikes again.

[@skipcampbell4226]

When they first put winglets on SWA 737 700s. Pilots supposedly said they would float badly while landing. Boeing engineers told to slam them if need be. The mains can take more punishment than the pilots could give them.

[@Avg33k_Fr3ak]

Damn, that A320 landing was harder than Ryanair 😳

[@splsgh]

2:05 FedEx & MD11 & Hard landing & Tokyo Narita sounds familiar......

[@marcmcreynolds2827]

That was an attempt to land in a storm -- a bad idea in any aircraft. Touchdown vertical speed was well in excess of the structural failure design limit.

[@DannoAviation]

That MD11 landing was seriously close to being a lot worse… loved these clips!

[@alexsauber]

like one in Narita Years ago..

[@Erukin27]

One MD-11 doing a bounce landing? incredible ! 😂

[@TheHiYaku]

Once upon a time, I had dreams of becoming a pilot... things changed, but man!! After stumbling on this channel, I have greater respect for these men (I hope there's women as well)!!! What skill

[@CanadaMatt]

1st clip, I think @74Gear would say the pilot doesn't carry enough speed for the windy conditions, meaning he doesn't have the ability to flare properly when he encounters the moderate windshear.

[@Sbbbb476]

Fedex md 11s and "bouncy" landings have a fun history...

[@raajasmulye7559]

Ryanair: What a smooth landing!

[@ryanfrisby7389]

Great video!😸

[@philliptaylor4544]

1:05 the moment we all need to see is blocked by bushes

[@grahammonk8013]

I watched the first landing in slow motion, and going by the wing flex, it wasn't super hard. I suspect that the "bounce" was helped a little by a gust? Making it look worse than it was?

[@marcmcreynolds2827]

I also always "check the wing flex" in trying to decipher these... and there wasn't much. OTOH, that touchdown appeared close to the design sink rate (former airliner landing gear dynamics engineer), so I'm wondering if the first-mode bending frequency of the wing just happened to be such that the rebound dynamics canceled most of the wing flex. A "stealth" hard landing? Edit: Except when I examined the sequence of events around touchdown once again, I wasn't able to construct a plausible case for such a flex-canceling interaction. In any event, it was well past the normal range for touchdown sink rates (4-6 fps) and perhaps pushing close to the "design" sink rate (maximum sink rate at touchdown for which there is no damage, even at maximum landing weight).

[@mrpresidentbarry]

methinks your best vid. EVER, 3 M o A…& they’re all grrrrrrreat!!!😬

[@auntbarbara5576]

That first one almost made MY teeth fall out.

[@aviation-zr2ln]

1:45 I would seriously freak out if I were looking out of my window.

[@landingslowly]

Definitly some 'code brown' moments!! Great mix as always!

[@CanadaMatt]

Federal Express: When it absolutely, positively, has to be there...in several pieces.

[@ronduncan9527]

Another FedEx MD11 wasn’t so lucky after bouncing in Tokyo several years ago!

[@marcmcreynolds2827]

That was a crash landing in a storm, hitting harder than what any airliner is designed to withstand. A bounce was just part of the sequence of events -- it was going to come apart one way or the other.

[@vincentxie3090]

These landing plane is very smooth by coming down and touching the grounds quickly with the landing gear.

[@BigDale]

Most modern large aircraft have a skid pad which is a one time use safety device which prevents most tail damage.This skid plate must be replaced anytime an unlucky Pilot has a tail drag.

[@MeppyMan]

FedEx captain looking at the first officer with the “wtf mate” eye after they park up and discuss what happened (assuming they focus on the flying and leave the debrief to when it’s appropriate).

[@Max-sy7nf]

it takes a hard hit to make an a320 bounce

[@martijnjonkers2179]

Props to the landing gear engineers

[@marcmcreynolds2827]

... and something called 300M steel.

[@coasternut3091]

Imagine of it had been a Ryanair flight

[@jim2lane]

The playback speed of that first landing has been increased quite a bit for dramatic effect.

[@marcmcreynolds2827]

That's an ~10 fps touchdown in real-time. Normal sink rate is 4-6 fps.

[@ABoeing-]

FedEx MD-11 severely bouncing while landing at Tokyo Narita...

[@marcmcreynolds2827]

That was trying to land in a storm, resulting in a crash landing. Vertical rate at touchdown was well beyond the design number, landing in a roll on one gear instead of both made it worse, and the gear of course failed.

[@Meisha-san]

This vid should be titled "Bounces & Sparks." 😂😂😂

[@gglasser8375]

2:36 Gate 17, gate 18, gate 19...

[@billyost1479]

A pilot doing a go around is the pilot you want on your aircraft.

[@lbowsk]

A pilot forced to do a go-around because he can't land in a crosswind is not the pilot I want on my aircraft.

[@tonyf9076]

Bet the 321 over rotation was a new pilot coming from the 320, quite a common thing to forget that extra length, i believe this was covered on an easyjet episode ???

[@gasdive]

It looked like an early rotation to me, but I don't know.

[@Ficon]

Nature: due to geography and the ocean, the winds have blown in this particular direction for millennia. Schiphol Airport designers: yeah yeah whatever, proceed to build runways perpendicular to prevailing winds.

[@juanarias3221]

You owe us one second of aviation.

[@AeroDyna]

U owe us 1 sec of aviation 😂🎉🎉

[@skipcampbell4226]

Plant those mains! Damn!

[@nataldoe3035]

1:33 I don't know anything about flying but if landing gear touches the runway why not just continue to land?

[@memeri]

It's all about landing gear

[@theaviationastronomychannel]

A320 landing gear:Boing boing oop i'm fine. pilot:oof!

[@crazedpilot747]

FedEx MD-11s and Tokyo Narita have had a bit of a bouncy relationship if yk what I mean

[@Jacocksable]

Actually hard landings are standard ops in strong wind conditions.

[@unknown_astro8433]

Woahhh

[@craigwhite5703]

Great video. Perfect title. FYI, I've started skipping the videos you post with clickbait titles like the last one: "Plane Takes Off Too Steeply" (implying some kind of catastrophic outcome). You have great content; you didn't used to do this with your titles.

[@hrmaviation8329]

Merci 🇨🇵🇨🇵

[@edwardmyers1746]

What airport is it that we always seen in windy compilations?

[@breadfan262]

Wow

[@brsnow225]

Those first two, all I was thinking was….isn’t the plane and the lines supposed to be pointing generally the same direction…….then I was waiting for someone to yell….oh, he shanked it

[@ianprice2298]

YIKES!

[@flyingmyles]

It's all about the harsh landings this week! I wasn't disappointed..... Standby for the 'you've robbed me of 1 second' comments! 😅😅😅

[@toomanybears_]

The landing gear ain't all that got hammered after that landing.

[@evaluateanalysis7974]

1:34 Plane not settling. I can't see any spoilers, did they forget them?

[@argentinevol6720]

Use the clip of the BoA 738 at GRU that lost half a winglet on landing in the next video

[@augustinep6193]

Good.