Air Canada flight makes ‘heart-stopping’ rough landing amid heavy crosswinds

An Air Canada flight was caught on video making a hard landing at Toronto Pearson Airport in Ontario, Canada on Monday evening as gusty crosswinds battered the runway.

Flight AC2 arriving from Tokyo on 13 November was filmed struggling to touch down on runway 24L of Toronto’s biggest airport.

In a video shared by Wake Turbulence Aviation, the Air Canada Boeing 777-300ER can be seen rocking violently from side to side, bouncing off the runway as smoke plumes from the landing gear on the tarmac.

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[rafaelhubbard]

Any landing you can walk away from is a good one, and if you can use the airplane again it’s a great one. All the drama happened after the bottom fell out and they touched a second layer with auto deploy spoilers which likely precluded a go around. From what little we saw in the video, the approach itself seemed stable enough :-) Good job folks!!

[tomfilipiak]

Them, fly boys know their stuff, Thank God!46 year, ramp worker, Chicago, Midway airport!

[foundation]

I am surprised 😮 that is not a go around that looked very dangerous ⚠️

[JayDS]

Time for a safety inspection. I can't tell if the left wingtip struck the ground. That was one spicy landing.

[shannonottarson]

Plane slams into the ground, pilot and atc, cool as cucumbers.... respect.

[icouldjustscream]

That cube van obscured the full view, but does it look like a possible tail strike?

[Evanielsaviation]

"that was a wind"
The ""wind"":

[rob]

This is practically every other landing in Calgary, Colorado Springs, Amsterdam and multiple other cities around the world. I swear that as a passenger with a lot of experience, I've been in my seat a great number of times looking out the window during landing and the entire horizon simply disappears in a flash. You're either staring down at the tarmac, or up at the clouds. One in particular in Calgary stands out. We were at over 40 degrees tilt to port wing and maybe nearly 75' up in a 727. I swore the ground was going to grab a wingtip and before I knew to be scared we were straight and level and on the ground. This is within a span of maybe 3 to 4 seconds of radical tilt and the same after wings level to touchdown.

[nuomilinglong]

Bro why are they commentating this like a sports match 😭😭

[RobertBreedon-cb]

Flight crew is lucky they didn't collapse the landing gear on the right side on the first contact to the ground that was pretty hard impact to terra firma

[murrayjohnson]

Stewies at that airline have the best job. They even get to occasionally fly the airplane!

[davidfont]

With the ads for other videos covering what's going on...that's going to be a thumbs down from me, dawg.

[stuntmanstu]

The wind sock shows what the pilots were dealing with.

[RealFlare]

I am lucky to have been there on the live stream while it happened!








If you don't believe me, check the live replay he mentions my name a few times

[davidkjack]

Did that look like a possible stall (right wing dropped out) right before TD to anyone else? The videoer comments “Floating Here” as u here a fairly large run up, then back down. 🤔

[mjg]

Pearson is tight enough as it is for surrounding buildings and proximity to others on the ground…imagine the carnage..but the pilots recovered. A fly by redo in hindsight? Everyone onboard must have been terrified

[davidkjack]

I wish I had 2 more hands so I could give that landing a 4 thumbs down 👎 👎 👎 👎

[googlreviews]

Funny how all the bad publicity is happening to Air Canada lately. I wouldn't fly with them even if it was free.

[Adlata]

When you maintain you planes with counterfeit made in china parts..

[ConservativeMan]

I’m an airline captain for a US carrier and we ALL have our good and bad days but the pilot flying sure ‘pranged’ that one on…I might even add ‘dangerously so’…. I’m not perfect in any way but if I was a ‘lead’ in the training department for Air Canada I’d pull the crew off the ‘line’ and back to the Sim for a landing evaluation no question.