UPS Boeing 747 Makes Wild, Fiery Taipei Landing During Typhoon

"A good landing is one you walk away from. An excellent landing is one where you can use the plane again." Good landing!

After two go-rounds, how much spare fuel does an aircraft typically have?

what about the Dell computers inside?

Good test for the liquid metal under each processor.

Given the terrible weather was well known, and that it was such a short hop from HKG they should have loaded plenty of fuel to circle for a few hours + return to HKG. The cost of downtime alone not to mention the cost of repairs is going to have management pretty unhappy with their decision to proceed with landing I think.

Wow these pilots are lucky, I don't know what the fuel situation was onboard after two attempts to land but they are lucky to walk away from this one. The aircraft on the other hand will be down for weeks for inspection and repairs. Get the tank dive maintenance teams ready because someone is going to have to go inside that right wing and inspect the spars, the ribs, the wing root. No telling how much weight or stress was put on that wing, from the video it would appear as though the only thing that kept the plane in some sort of control or even from flipping over was the engine making contact with and scrapping along the ground.

Third go-around? I don't think so. The pilots apparently had a very strong case of "get there-itis". After two attempts it's time to divert to your alternative. Just because the airport is technically open doesn't mean you have to through caution to the wind and risk life and limb on yet a THIRD go-around. The pilots discussion with the Chief Pilot is not going to go well.

So in that sense, if all landings were 'good' today, there'd be no planes to fly tomorrow.

Regardless of the damage, you have to admit that Boeing built them well.

WHAT is up with the ridiculous music in the first video??

Uninformed comment.

-Give the flight time 2++ hours for normal 50 minute flight they could have been approaching min fuel.
- And what about the wx? Getting worse?
- What about their alternative airport? Weather their? This may have been the best shot at landing. Crabbing - even at a large angle - is common for experienced pilots.

Breaking the accident/incident chain could go all the way back to the decision to take off into deteriorating conditions at the landing airport.

Wow, I was annoyed about my hard landing today in Chicago. This puts it all in perspective. That said, it's a clear, sunny, windless day in Chicago and the DL pilot put the plane down hard. I know that hard landings are generally safer, but this one was the hardest one I've ever felt and we had a BIG bounce!

Being Delta, at least it was a Premium bounce!

There's certainly some hazard from initiating a go-around that close to the ground- they might have been low enough that it's not advised for that aircraft or airport. You normally want to go-around as soon as you can, not last minute.

The other thing is, wing strikes do happen- this one just happened to have an engine hanging around much further out from the fuselage than twin-engine aircraft have.