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Originally Posted by rattlsnak
They should have. That was a HORRIBLE example of a cross wind landing.. They were lucky no damage occurred and I'm sure the people sitting in the back row knocked heads as that tail violently swung around to straight ahead....
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Not pretty, for sure. Probably should pushed to TOGA and aborted. That said, they should probably get a
little bit of a pass due to the totality of the circumstances/factors. Per the description, it happened recently during Storm Dennis, which was pretty nasty and pummeled the UK. They were probably seeing 50+ knot crosswinds, and I imagine none of the close alternates were any better (and who knows what their fuel situation was). Several go-arounds that day, and LHR was shut down shortly after as well, so they were the likely among the last of the cleared approaches. Also, the camera perspective may be exaggerating things a bit there.