Airbus A330-223 - TAP Portugal | Aviation Photo #1888077

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Comments (32)

Anonymous

7 years ago

Oooh thats a really bad crab angle...should have gone around

Tough Landing always!

Wow Congrats very Nice shot Joao! best of luck for the rest ;-) Axel

Congrats for this great shot João ! These are situations were being a pilot means something... Patrick

Yikes!

The crosswinds look just nasty in Portugal! Pretty wild stuff!

What a sight! Awesome. They should hurry up to get this bird straight, otherwise the runway won't last.

An amazing photo! If I had been in the left hand seat, given the obvious strong crosswind, I'd have aborted the landing and gone around. This could got out of hand very fast, and had highly undesirable consequences...

Captain Dan
Northwest Airlines (Retired)

Just a slight crosswind... The A330 is one sexy sailplane with two engines!

A perfect crab. I wonder how the camera-person made out???

If I were you, I would run at the moment you caught this photo.
5*

Kick it !

De-crabbing? Or not? I'm curious what the next picture looks like...

Just to be sure: Takeoff or Landing? Flaps don't really say...could be a T/O with Flaps above 1+F. In that case crabbing is even desired after Nose Wheel Liftoff.

It appears to be a tragic moment, but it wasnt. That is how to land a aircraft with a crosswind. The gear from the side who comes the wind should touch first.

A little more to the left......

The crosswind looks at least 50 degrees off-axis, this is outright dangerous, albeit being spectacular. I side with Capt. Dan this should have been a go-around. Greetings =OVNEMUM=

Is there a next frame, or were you too busy running away?

I want to see the de-crabbing...

On the next frame the aircraft touched with the left gear. Afterthat was a perfect landing.

Photos should not only be rated by their quality on photography details, but on the difficulty to get the shot on the frame, or the spot where the photographer should be in a specific moment in time to capture it... like this photo... wow!

Wow..speechless

Although the shot is stunning, you guys realise that the zoom lense greatly exaggerates the crab angle? Look at the spacing of the edge lights ... could have been something like 15 - 20 degrees.

Great picture and what a Pilot!!

Excellent.. The best crosswind ever.. I wish I could watch this de-crabbing.. :D

Pax on A seats have a better view on the runway than F/O

The aircraft is landing because taxiway is at the beginning of the runway :) great photo

6 years ago

God, i always travel in these kind of weather, now i see how is a nice work for the pilot land in runway with crosswinds.

Spectacular! Speechless!

I have to say the A330 is a very graceful (sexy another way of putting it) bird, this shot makes it come out. Probably more graceful than the 777, which has other strong points. The timing of this shot is excellent.

Amazing landing!

3 years ago

That's a nasty crosswind.

Aviation Photo #1888077 Airbus A330-223 - TAP Portugal

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