A380 Touch and Go (Aborted Landing) Manchester Airport July 11th 2012

A380 attempting to land at Manchester in crosswind. Appeared to touch down about half way along the runway and had to abort -

[grahmck]

Think all airlines should check these comments out so many unemployed pilots

[CorekBleedingHollow]

That is just so amazing and mind boggling that something like that can lift off and fly. Beautiful.

[wingaard]

Its about as long as you would want to spend in Manchester anyway ...

[Jamlidd]

great capture, and a good decision by the pilot...

[Kriss]

Forgot to delete his browser history at home

[HeartlandTuber]

This is a very nice catch. The pilot was clearly sensing the winds, it kept him from touching down as intended, but he was so close you can clearly see smoke twice from wheels making contact. But then he realizes he is beyond the defined touchdown zone extending from the threshold of the runway, and he is right to abort and go around, rather than risking running out of runway before he can decelerate after landing beyond the threshold. The A380 is a big plane, and heavy, so he did the right thing.

[greenjade]

There was quite obviously too much gravy aboard the aircraft for the pilot to make a safe landing and so the landing was aborted. Usually this is used up during in-flight service, however in some cases there can be a surplus. It is against CAA regulations to dump gravy in British airspace. The aircraft went into the hold and passengers were I am told offered the opportunity to indulge in a roast beef dinner with roast potatoes and Yorkshire pudding.  This reduced the gravy surplus to within  safe landing limits and the aircraft was able to make a safe landing later on that day.

[bigtaxrefund]

as a pilot myself i can assure you that this is not a complete touch and go. in training, a "touch and go" is when you fully land, retract your flaps, reset the trim, add enough take off power, roll down the runway to take off speed and lift off again. this pilot came in too fast causing excessive lift on the wings. As a result, the aircraft would not land. that explains the bouncy landings. the pilot ran out of "required" landing space so had no choice but to power up, take off again and make a go around. this is more of a aborted landing.

[nlhm]

Thanks for comment. It landed about 10 mins later. I did film that aswell but didn't upload as the landing was uneventful !

[KnowdedgeIsBacon]

Awesome. The spray off the ground when the engines power back up is incredible!

[LorddGray]

Impressive. I would not have thought that beast could get airborne again that quickly.

[Fazillah]

imagine being inside and hearing the announcement in arabic first and not knowing wtf he said until the english translation...

[userkffs]

Even in the sky between the clouds it looks fcking huge!

[nlhm]

scary thought . Glad i wasn't on that plane, would have been a little worried !!

[aljack]

Looks like an initial cross wind which changed to a tailwind which may have increased his air speed thus pushing the aircraft further down the runway, once it bounced it was inevitably past the touch down zone and may not have had enough runway to land safely. Always best to go around. Great capture though, not every day one sees this of an A380.

[nlhm]

Thanks. Thats what you call being in the right place at the right time ! Couldn't believe I was seeing this let alone catch it on video !

[oceantrolls]

He saw the plane spotters and said "there ya go fellas, this one's for you!"

[halimboy]

Captain be like. Sorry, wrong airport. See ya!

[razionalmente]

Many accidents comes from refuse to Go Around, Go Around (and not touch and go) is not a pilot's defeat it's a security procedure!

[danpend]

Although Manchester is a major International Airport with lots of traffic including many jumbo's, runway 23R doesn't offer a lot of runway to play with even with the extra overrun at the end. It looked like to me, perhaps because of the wind and other factors, he went too far down the runway before the mains touched and made a very wise decision to abort before his airplane carried him and its passengers off the far end of the runway. Excellent job, cockpit crew!