Against All Odds: A380 Bravely Lands in Stormy Weather

Impressive TUI Boeing 787-8 Go-around. London Gatwick airport during very awful Storm Eunice. This is where piloting skills really come to the forefront. Hats off to the pilots ! All these peoples lives in their hands. Absolutely tremendous skill from them. My heart was pounding by filming it , can’t imagine what it must be like being in the plane. I did filmed these videos at London Gatwick Airport from 8am till 5pm. Here are some highlights. At one point for about 40 minutes no one was landing due to a very strong winds and heavy rain. Dozens of Go-arounds . Lots of flights were diverted to other cities and cancelled. Emirates flight EK15 on Airbus A380 waited 45 minutes in the hold up area near Brighton for the landing clearance. TUI Boeing 787 Dreamliner Reg (G-TUIB) tried twice to land and then diverted to Manchester airport Eunice brewed in the central Atlantic and was spun up from the Azores towards Europe by the jet stream A gust of 122mph - measured at an expo
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