Airbus A320-214 - Iberia | Aviation Photo #0163613

Anonymous

18 years ago

Fantastic shot Marlo, got me on this one, I was sat just above the N of the reg on the right hand side! It was indeed a very bumpy approach and an equally rough landing.

Anonymous

17 years ago

Very nice photo.
And very dangerous =)

Anonymous

17 years ago

You try to get a shot like that.

Anonymous

17 years ago

Excellent shot, although it doesn't look like the plane would've hit the truck anyway. There's enough clearance there!

Anonymous

17 years ago

Great timing!

Anonymous

17 years ago

I want to know if he collected the fence!

Anonymous

17 years ago

Not only great shot, great moment

Anonymous

17 years ago

Just love the way the car is hitting the breaks!!!

Anonymous

17 years ago

Really great shot. That looks like a scary experience

Anonymous

17 years ago

Seriously good picture to cover both road n flight...good one

Anonymous

17 years ago

That road sign has the right idea: "!"

Anonymous

17 years ago

Going out spotting and having one go this close must have been a real buzz. Keep taking pictures cause the next one might be the one in a million we are all trying to get.

Anonymous

17 years ago

Absolutelly great

Anonymous

17 years ago

If the truck was a little bit more ahead... but great photo. Keep it going.

Anonymous

17 years ago

Hey you can see what Spain pilots can do!! :-D

Spartako

Anonymous

17 years ago

To the comment above:

Is not the fact that the truck would have hit the plane, but if it was underneath the track of the a/c that close the engines would have blasted the truck over on its side.

Anonymous

17 years ago

A perfect compostion considering the time that he would've got. Frankly it gives me the goose bumps! Good for the truck driver that the brakes held!!

Anonymous

17 years ago

THe truck passed the plane anyway so there's no point for him to hit the brakes.

Anonymous

17 years ago

No right, the truck has definitively not passed under the aircraft. Just make a size comparison to see the truck is several meters in front of the aircraft. The A320 is abeam the white car standing on the roads shoulder. Marlo

Anonymous

17 years ago

They should have posted a sign: !>^!
In other words: beware of airplanes passing too low over your vehicles!! (It was the best I could do with my keyboard!)

Anonymous

17 years ago

Up spain!you know not anybody can do this. great approach, i´m fascinated

Anonymous

17 years ago

Photographers are in the right place at the right time!!! especally this one!!!

Anonymous

17 years ago

Lowest Approach ever seen!

Anonymous

17 years ago

It's good

Anonymous

17 years ago

Freezing!!!!!!!!

Anonymous

17 years ago

What happened?? you don't get to see this incredibly low approaches so often..did the captain manage to get over the wall? very impressed great shot!

Anonymous

17 years ago

No words to describe it...

Anonymous

17 years ago

" Hey you can see what Spain pilots can do!! :-D
Spartako "
Your pilot was dangerously low, and there's nothing to be proud of.
Somehow by a weird illusion the truck seems to have passed the plane, but comparing the height of the car to the size of the door on the plane makes me believe that the plane is well behind the truck.

Anonymous

17 years ago

This photo is really cool, at first I couldn't believe this was an actual photograph, since the A320 is flying too low and it seems that it will crash with the truck.

Anonymous

17 years ago

Very dangerous! A few inches more and the main gear could hit the truck, and that Airbus should end like one of the 747s in the Tenerife Disaster. T.B.

Anonymous

17 years ago

New underwear for the guy in the truck!!!

Anonymous

17 years ago

I can believe this as I have flown IB domestic flights before. Makes me really scared to fly them the next time, but nonetheless a fantastic photo.

Anonymous

17 years ago

Lower than at St.Maarten! The pilot must think they have a 3,000 foot runway!

Anonymous

17 years ago

Very good !!!

Anonymous

17 years ago

If the plane was any lower and the truck kept going, there could have been a disaster. Good job getting the photo.

Anonymous

17 years ago

The fact that tragedy was near this giant landing routine makes this picture really important.

Anonymous

17 years ago

It's a good shot but, please, consider perspective;if really under the aircraft, the truck would be a little
smaller in the picture

Anonymous

17 years ago

Very, very sacary landing. good shot.

Anonymous

17 years ago

Busy day for people servicing the toilets on this aircraft

Anonymous

17 years ago

Wow O.o that is wicked cool ^_^
great shot
i would have loved to be there

Anonymous

17 years ago

Best picture

Anonymous

17 years ago

Very impresive!

Anonymous

17 years ago

That is bloody low!

Anonymous

17 years ago

Perspective! The truck is well past the plane, compare the size of the truck to that of the car. The truck driver would be on the brakes if the plane was ahead of him.

Anonymous

17 years ago

Ace shot

Anonymous

17 years ago

I love it, great photo !

Anonymous

17 years ago

Incredible
almost landing at the street!

Anonymous

17 years ago

Great pic !

Anonymous

16 years ago

It it would be a few feet lower, it would have destroyed the fence! Nice shot!

Anonymous

16 years ago

So close and yet so far! It's just awesome to see a plane weighing several tons literally hanging (albeit for only seconds) over a roadway. A totally surreal photograph.

Anonymous

16 years ago

That's low. Maybe the pilot is confused and thinks he's landing at SXM :-D

Anonymous

16 years ago

Great pic of a low approach, but pilot is not to blame. Who, in their right mind, planned this road in the first place? Secondly, why trucks were not banned from using it? As I pilot, I do not expect a huge container truck to get in the way while I am trying to get this heavy bird safely to ground. Pilots 1, Truck Driver 0, City Planner -10.

Anonymous

16 years ago

A just happen to be in the right place at the right time shot. the picture tells the whole story

Anonymous

16 years ago

This is surely a great shot. It has been shot at a very right moment.

Anonymous

16 years ago

Great scale and drama

Anonymous

16 years ago

Awesome picture. aircraft is really on a very low approach. being at the right place at the right time. mjrd:)

Anonymous

16 years ago

My godness!!! Look the guy in the black car...
Steps really hard on the brakes.

Anonymous

16 years ago

Really impressive! Maybe the truck driver no longer uses that road! But.. that signal of "Men at work", seems to be put as a distractor. Uhmm, the A320 is very close to the fence, so, the runway could be too short. Very good photograph!

Anonymous

16 years ago

Great pic!! I´m thinking about the passengers. Did they know what was happenend??

Anonymous

16 years ago

This road have been cabcled, and now the rafic and the spotters have to see the action from a new road, less "dangerous". But still a very nice spotting spot.

Anonymous

15 years ago

Look at the landing gear, and look to the top of the truck.. Just near touch!

Anonymous

15 years ago

Holly carp!!

nice shot!

Anonymous

15 years ago

It's unusualy moment.

Anonymous

15 years ago

This is a normal landing, firstly the truck is much closer than the A320, look at the height of the truch in relation to the aircraft, i'm telling you that aircraft is a considerable distance further down the road. It's also not breaking suddenly, the car behind is, probably because he is driving too close to the truck. I see nothing abnormal with this landing.

Anonymous

15 years ago

This sure was close, the scale of the cargo truck and the door of the aircraft is pretty much 1:1, if you ever been inside or walked next to a trailer, you'd know, awesome shot! totally priceless

Anonymous

15 years ago

Exellent picture. wow that truck really got a hard time imagine what could have happened. Im proud of providing this kind of pictures thanks.
Sergio from Cali Colombia.

Anonymous

15 years ago

Wow. An amazing shot!

Anonymous

15 years ago

Congratulations!!

Anonymous

15 years ago

What more can i say its just a brilliant photo,well done,its a exiting photo.

Anonymous

14 years ago

Wow I have to say this is amazing and i really like to be next to one and one day I i will be flying one like that : )

Anonymous

14 years ago

It shows a lot of detail on the aircraft. The A320 is very impressive but I've never seen it fly so low

Anonymous

14 years ago

Very unusual. Viewer can compare size of plane to relative objects. Great timing and camera settings.

Anonymous

14 years ago

The plane is ahead of the truck. The truck is almoust under the wingtip. I believe the truck has stopped to avoid any threath of being hit by the a320's landing gear. Think the truck as an catering vehicle, compare it to the planes door. In the picture the truck is too big compared to the front door so there must be an gap between. Great shot anyway, possibly once in a life time chance! =)

Anonymous

13 years ago

What a picture!! My beloved A320 going so low.

Anonymous

13 years ago

Not to spoil the fun, but I think the plane is waaaaay ahead of the truck. Totally agree with the finnish poster.

Anonymous

13 years ago

Deadly close

Anonymous

13 years ago

Wow! This is an amazing picture, what i`d give to be there when the big planes come in.

Anonymous

13 years ago

Damne close call !!

Anonymous

13 years ago

Really nice foto just wow!

Anonymous

13 years ago

Wow. very close indeed. Great photo

Anonymous

13 years ago

That is sick

Anonymous

12 years ago

That is dangerous low,now a great shot but it had easely could be a big disaster picture.one in a million capture.

Anonymous

12 years ago

I never liked to be below an aircraft on approach that low. Or any height for that matter!

Anonymous

12 years ago

Amazing proportions between the truck and airplane it makes the truck look so small even though it is a relatively large object. 5 stars!

Anonymous

12 years ago

If the truck didn't stop. the pilot could say he did a touch and go on a truck. as long as he didn't crash.

Anonymous

11 years ago

Now the truck driver knows how the cars and pedestrians feel...

mahagonny

178 Italy

6 years ago

bad shot. bad quality. it's a smartphone photo?

mighluss

3 Spain

6 years ago

It's a non digital shot from 2001, when you could stay just meters from the threshold in BCN

L0VE2FLY

California, USA

4 years ago

Smartphones and camera phones didn't exist in 2001! :) The latter became available in 2002 but their photo resolution and quality were pretty poor, certainly not as good as this picture.

PlaneStickman

Maryland, USA

1 year ago

Smartphone????

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