FULL Virgin VS43 Gatwick Emergency Landing with ATC
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Footage from the end of Runway 26L as Virgin Atlantic VS43 Boeing 747- 400 G-VROM Jumbo Jet conducts an emergency landing at London's Gatwick Airport (LGW). With control tower radio.
VS43 was en-route to Las Vegas (LAS) when the pilots became aware of a landing gear issue involving the right-wing undercarriage. This is not the Virgin 747 at JFK in the fake UFO video.
The registration of the aircraft is G-VROM.
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I can't stop smiling. Such a great landing, and so glad everyone walked away. Hats off to the whole crew!
me to :D
>>Hats off to the whole crew!
True, true!
Robert Simmonds Hard landing but gj nonetheless.
+Robert Simmonds
BOUNCED landing, with a compromised landing gear. Remaining body gear over-stressed. Any harder and there would have been spinal injuries. You can see the wings flex.
Pilots grease these airplanes onto runways around the globe every day.
+Randall S Couldn't agree more. I have sat on the flight deck of everything from a Cessna 172 to this precise model of aircraft. The fact the right MBG was out of service meant this should have been a far gentler landing than normal, in fact the reverse is true.
first class film and sound recording; one for the books. Thank you!
Thanks!
LondonAircraft very nice !
To me this is the most beautiful and amazing plane ever built. Great work by the pilots.
Couldn’t agree more tbh especially the 747-8i
I was expecting those engines to strike the runway after touchdown, but they did not. Impressive!
Everyone needs to realise the PF touched down firmly on purpose in an attempt to release the stuck landing gear out of its bay.
Too late by then, would not have sufficient ground clearance as other gear would have compressed the oleos. On a Touch and go - maybe a possibility but this was a committed landing.
Not true. Even if it had released it wouldn't have opened fully and locked into place. If the pilot was trying to do that, he would have hit hard and taken back off again without committing to the landing.
Bottom line is - they ALL walked away.
Well done Pilots and Crew.
That was a darn good landing and that entire crew, especially the captain, deserves some major praises and more!
If there is anything that will give you 100% confidence to land it safely, is knowing your own child is one of the passengers. 👏 👏 👏
My son is a pilot, remember watching his first landing on that same runway. Not all plain sailing!
Fly this route to DefCon in vegas every summer, great to see the VA crew dealing with this kind of emergency without so much as a scratch, hats off to them all.
Gotta love armchair experts.
I agree and 99% have not even been on a 747 let alone at the controls
+billiepipersteeth
What's your opinion of the landing? I see pilots float these aircraft onto runways every day.
These guys slammed it down, bouncing it so hard the wings flexed, unnecessarily overstressing the remaining body gear at the one moment in this pilot's career when he should have performed a perfect flare and allowed the aircraft to settle onto the surface.
Hey, just sayin'.
+Randall S
THANK YOU. I swear some people on here need their eyes checked.
+Randall S Jah that was no perfect landing.
Trying to free the stuck wheel in this manner is bull shit.
b777 pilot
+billiepipersteeth I sit on many armchairs...I am an armchair expert!
Why would anyone dislike this video? You just seen what great engineering and safety in design prevent a disaster. Did you want to see a plane crash with casualties?
and they kept it on the centerline. Professional!
The 747 is one of the most robust commercial jets ever constructed. Props to Boeing.
Absolute textbook perfection. I hope this crew are flying VS43 when I go on it in September.
Bouncing a landing is textbook perfection?
I know virgin crews as they train with the company i work for... they said it was intentional to try to get the remaining gear to fall free
Well.....I have a ?.
If they were trying to get the "remaining gear to fall free".....
Wouldn't it be too late. The gear can't lock itself into place once
the plane is on the ground.....or even near it (say a few feet). I
don't think that gear falls like a bucket of cement. Can someone + info?
@@stressbelden5869 3 years later but if they bounce it the gear should be able to fall and gravity lock in place
Pilot earned his pay that day....did an impressive job in my book, landed safely...all onboard safe....good job. 👍👍👍
Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain. We will be landing shortly and the flight crew now ask that everyone to please move to the left side of the aircraft. Thank you for flying with us today.
thanks for posting this video. the pilot deserves a national award.
gbnoob20 Thanks for the comment
+gbnoob20
They unnecessarily bounced the aircraft on crippled landing gear.
They got it on the ground, and that's about all you can say for them.
+Randall S Yeah. Considering they didn't have all of their landing gear, he came down a bit hard.
+marcel911--Agree with you..Very dangerous low stall on a bad landing gear..mediocre hard landing..
I was on that flight, pilot did a great job. They spent a few hours trying to shake down the gear, this made a few passengers a little uneasy but no major panic.
If it was thunder birds, they would place the fire engine under the right wing!
Great vid. Stunning landing. Like a bird. Absolute perfection by flight crew.
Best footage I've seen on emergency landings, thanks .
Stuart frazer Billingham thank you
Full marks to the pilot AND the 747!
I played squash with the Captain of this flight recently. His young daughter was accompanying him on this trip and was sat in the passenger cabin. Imagine how proud she must have been of her dad as he safely landed the aircraft. Captain was a lovely bloke. And also annoyingly good at squash. 😅
Love the guy at the end "Not gonna lie bit disappointed to be honest"
Thanks for sharing this great vid! Superb work! Glad everything went well!
***** thanks
LondonAircraft Great Capture!~ just curious, how did you obtain the radio conversation? is it readily available on the open channel?
Isaac Kim A hobbiest near by had a radio, you can pick them up cheaply, apparently
That pilot need a raise, nerve of steel proper decision making, everyone is safe and bonus prevented any damage to the plane. Incredible
Disaster avoided, calm and professional pilot there mate.
And you realize what a beast that 74 is when those huge trucks get to and and are freaking dwarfed by it.
Thanks for the Pilot experience!!!
brilliant flying by the air crew well done to everyone involved in the successful outcome
Beautiful landing -- accomplished pilots bringing that big bird down so nicely -- they almost greased it! Good job! No. 4 (starboard) engine never touched the runway. Happy landing!
That landing looks better than most landings with a full landing gear down
Brilliant landing. Bully to the pilots and crew. I watched a documentary on the 747 once and it really is quite an amazing aircraft. One of the original Boeing test pilots kept running into engine blow-outs (GE or Pratt & Whitney, can't recall which) and to illustrate the problem to the disbelieving engine manufacturer engineers the pilot blew out all but one engine in-flight and the 747 happily kept flying. Needless to say the engine manufacturer told him to stop and fixed the problem soon thereafter!
The Capitan is an artist.
Trully superb landing by the pilots.
This pilot is brilliant landing this plane with broken landing gear
Great footage of landing
There is always the armchair pilot who has to criticize....He landed this beast safely with all the pax....So respect in my book!
Everyone is complimenting the pilot, which he did do a great job. But I'm here to give a pat on the back to the engineers who designed this beautiful bird well and strongly enough to land with 1 of the landing gears malfunctioned.
Kudos to the guy who says "or she" at 5:04.
Epic landing! That pilots deserve a raise!!
All credit to the crew for such a successful landing. And all credit to the camera work that we got to see this with radio commentary. Fantastic.
What an amazing landing by the pilots with such an emergency.
I used to have duties which included landing gear loads analysis (normal and abnormal configs) for a major airframe manufacturer. Here's what you are looking at:
* Moderate touchdown rate at well under the 12 fps design value (an *average* carrier landing is what 12 fps looks like, BTW) or the 15 fps gear failure value, but above the typical 4-6 fps.
* Relatively low touchdown loads, even minus one strut, because wing lift was still counteracting much of the weight. Maybe even less than the loads experienced at rotation when they took off, if they were anywhere near MTOW for the flight. Confirmed by the wing deflection, which was a tiny fraction of the design value.
* Continued reduced loads thanks to only 4 of 12 spoiler panels deploying. That's why it bounces: still plenty of lift from the wing, so not even enough down force to counteract the up force from the compressed shock struts . The usual peak loads just aren't there.
* As others have noted, an excellent job by the flight crew of keeping the aircraft all shiny and new!
Considering the increased load on the remaining landing gear I'm surprised more effort wasn't made to reduce the force on landing
Captain earning his pay well done these pilot's needs to be praised for their skills .
Amazing landing under the circumstances. Kudos to the Capt.
The hammering touchdown was to test the other landing gears...brilliant idea...
I'd rather say it was to try to get the failed right landing gear to deploy via inertia.
When you do that you do a take off or go around to give the gear some time to come down after a hard touchdown on the other..Anyway,,,,Hammering like that will damage the other gears too..That is a Pilot Error, period..
He was lucky the other gears didnt fail too..Most Probably the first one was damaged on that kind of hammer touchdown before.That is why it got stuck up..
Probably bent after many hammering drops on runway like on this video..Too many Class D pilots..So many Pilot Errors been allowed..and crazy pilots all over...Corruption have taken over pilot training too..
***** Unbelievable. You don't slam the airplane down to "make sure the gear is locked". What would happen in that case if they weren't locked???
Omfg...lol
+Ethan Kearney
Its just getting used to the size..I went from Aztecs to DC-3's in 1980..After a few hours I was landing it on 3k feet at full gross..After 10 hours I took and passed the V1 test..Loaded to 90%..the most difficult test for any pilot.. and a year later I lost the left one at 200 feet.loaded..90 degreee on the hot runway..I brought it back on the right engine at METO power..at 400 feet agl I had to turn to downwind leg..could not climb any more..Most jet pilots can't handle twin taildraggers..They are like a 1940's truck compared with an all automatic todays trucks and all buses..anyone can drive a truck or bus lately..even old ladies do drive School Buses lately..BUT not those 1940's kinds of machines- be that a car, truck, bus or airplane, or computers..You should know lately all is easier to do..Comprende?
Right Wing fuel empty (dumped) to lose weight on that side to avoid collapse, great job by the crew. I don't understand why, 'cause virgin makes good maintenance to all their aircraft.
+Stingercam21
Look, Stuff Happens. I have a private license here in the USA. I had a gear problem on a Piper Turbo Saratoga SP. It had just gone through a maintenance check, and the landing gear retraction and extension mechanism had just been repaired. When I extended the gear, I only got two green on the mains, but no green on the nose. I declared an emergency and had my passengers move to the rear of the aircraft to move my CG aft. I touched down, and very slowly lowered the nose. when the nose touched down, the nose gear green light came on. It turned out to be an ever so slightly mis-adjusted micro switch on the nose.
The point I am trying to make is that even with the best maintenance, things can and DO go wrong.
+Mark Emanuele cool story mate, glad it worked out ok for you
Pilot in the loop, saved that plane. Computers will never be able to duplicate that complexity.
Great video many thanks. A big bird lives to fly again. Once again many thanks for this great happy ending. Cheers mate.
Rob Trust no probs thanks for comment
Been monitoring this one all morning on the interwebz. Hats off to the pilots on this one.
God bless those pilots and the emergency crews for safely landing the plane and saving all those souls on board.
Gear malfunction, but a solidly built Boeing aircraft. Everyone made it and that's what counts.
It looks crazy seeing a 747 land with a missing gear! If this was any other plane this would be a very different story.
It came close. Had those engines touched the ground, things could have become quite messy.
Great Capture! Superb landing by the pilots!
I am amazed nothing was harmed during this landing. The right wing landing gear didn't deploy properly. I really hope hydraulic line wasn't damage severely.
I'm watching this almost 7 years on..... what amazing and very skilled pilots Virgin have 👮🏼♂️👮🏾♂️👮🏼♀️💜 ❤ ✈
Great landing better video then sky news right place right time amazing London aircraft
What an absolute brilliant Pilot - whoever you are - you deserve to be honoured in The Queens Birthday Honours in 2015…… well done that Man!
Amazing video! Incredible skill from the pilot.
Incredible landing! I hope Richard gave the pilots and crew a FAT bonus that year!
Fantastic flying by the crew at VA
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I saw G-VROM depart today, shes fit and well again and is currrently flying to Orlando as VS27.
I'm pretty sure the bounce was intended, as a last ditch attempt to free the gear. Brilliant display by the flight crew, excellent job.
Wow... Amazing landing & fantastic video work
This is why we need to keep the Queen alive.
Most reliable Aircraft and recognized Aircraft build.
maggie65ist thank you, I agree
Such a beautiful plane.
Thumbs up to the Crew great handling
ANY landing you walk away from is a "GOOD" landing if you can still fly the aircraft afterwards it is a "PERFECT" LANDING! Looks like a lot of "whuffo's making negative comments on this landing. Nothing wrong with this landing, well done.
Thats how pros do their job, great pilot skills and great EM response
+charlie brown
The pilots bounced a critical landing, and emergency crews got into their rigs and rolled onto the runway.
So what.
Shut the fuck up you keyboard pilot.
This guy is a hero, so is the guy who got it on tape. Thanks.
Damn, you would imagine that with a missing landing gear, the pilot would be more delicate than usual with the landing. He slammed into that runway, surprised the engines didn't hit the ground.
soccerjonesy sorry capt sully
Kudos to the pilots for ending this flight safely, but I gotta say; this is by far the HARDEST 747 landing I have ever seen. Between videos and my job on an airport ramp, I have seen thousands of 747 landings, and never seen one slam down like this. This a testament to just how sturdy my favorite airplane really is. I understand the pilots were dealing with a stressful situation, but when you have broken landing gear, you want to put her down as GENTLY as possible.
Perfect landing!
With a set of brakes missing, landing/stopping distances are extended. Therefore, a pinpoint landing is required so as to extend spoilers and use the reduced braking capacity. It has nothing to do with the gear being stuck. This procedure also applies when landing on wet, snow, icy or short runways. Ret Captain.
the plane was missing one landing gear, but the pilots still its very hard hit on the runway. I admire the strength of the design of the Boeing 747, at that time no one was building such strong planes. only modern aircraft made of composite materials can compete with him in this case
One thing for certain...That plane wasn't going anywhere further than the runway without a tow...and a thorough investigation afterwards!
Fantastic shot. Well done. Do we have more details on the configuration of the landing along with a cause? I would love to see an ACI episode in the future on this.
Clipstreu Thanks. Sorry no further details but probably plenty around the net.
My 747-200 flight manual says if one of the wing gear is retracted on landing the plane will be uncontrollable. I guess that isn't true on a -400
+Harrison Bounel Flight Sim doesn't count
The Pilot is a master of his craft...smack down the center of the runway!
Harrison Bounel i
Simple I do this on my skate board every day Joking apart its wonderful!
Best ever aircraft and for sure the pilots.Excellent video.Thanks for uploading it.
+Fluke Cypriot
Good aircraft... bad piloting. Pilots grease 747-400's onto runways every day of every year around the globe.
This was a bad time to bounce on a crippled landing gear.
this is the most butter emergency landing on the world
Amazing shot, very lucky!
Good job on the pilot(s) landing the aircraft.
"He's absolutely greased it...." were we watching the same video???
hurtylfc It certainly wasn't me who said that. But out of interest...what makes you think it was a bad landing? No injuries...no further damage to aircraft..
It's a great landing. It wasn't a greaser though was it, he bounced it. Which I'd try and avoid if I was having issues with the gear.
hurtylfc I'm guessing he was trying to dislodge the stuck wheels. I have seen them do it before.
+erwin bolink
Your speculation is foolishness. In the event the crew were attempting to dislodge the gear, they wouldn't do it by bashing the aircraft against a concrete runway.
And they certainly wouldn't do it in conjunction with a landing attempt.
+hurtylfc
Pilots perform beautiful flares and allow 747-400's to settle gently onto runways daily, around the globe. These guys bounced the aircraft so hard the wings flexed, at the one moment in this pilot's career where he really needed to perform a perfect landing.
Sorry, that was NOT a great landing.
You could just see how much weight was being put on those other landing gears just because one set was gone. Just look at how close the flaps were to the runway when he touched down!
Diese Landung spricht nicht nur für das Können der Piloten, sondern auch für die
Konstruktion des Flugzeugs!
Well done! Great capture! Did you add the radio later on?
feanor888 I had radio with me at the time and played it next to the cams microphone
Thats awesome that it could even land without anything hiring the ground. What a great airplane!
i still remember virgin atlantic a340-300 made emergency landing at heathrow at year 1997 and same landing gear issue with this 1
It seems unlikely that the gear struts could come fully down and lock with the pressure of the aircraft pressing upon them. The gear must have been partially extended, since there were no sparks from the underside of the engines on the right wing. I suspect the pilot just wanted to put it down promptly.
Wow... they really forced that gear to flop down in the landing
Great video! Some good cross winds by the looks of it too! Fantastic job by the crew to not even hit the tarmac
those emergency cars look like toys against that plane
David Wood i thought the same! Dwarfs them!
Got to love in the comments below how everyone says they are a 747 pilot all of a sudden. Flight sims dont count.
This is the time when the Pilots Need to take control, and not leave it to a pile of micro-chips to do the job.
Insane how the landing gear is still strong enough to take the massive load.
+Peter Timowreef It's lighter on landing than on takeoff (less fuel).
EinkOLED
Yea that's true. I suppose he circled around for a few hours to get rid of as much weight as possible.
Still, with take-off it's more a continuous load, whereas here there were 100s of tons smacking down on the concrete, all at once. I think the peak load was much higher than at take-off.
Great landing? Well...let's be honest here. With the entire right main gear out of action, the pilot still CRUSHED the landing, whether he intended to or not. That was either a fumbled flare or indicated GREAT confidence of the pilot in the strength of the remaining gear. "Right main still in the wing? Let's show how strong the rest are! Hold my beer and watch this, ladies and gentlemen..."...KA-SLAM!!!...."And we're fine, just like I said we would be. Trust in Boeing."
We fly Emirates all over the World - love the 777-300 but you have to go on a A380-800 just an amazing aircraft
Absolutely Amazing effort by all.
Say what you want but that was an excellent landing. (A good landing is were everybody walks away alife, an excellent landing is a landing were the plane can be used again after).
Does that count as Two Landings? Good job Flight Crew!!!