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That is the moment a vacation plane was chucked around within the air and slammed into the tarmac in a ‘horror landing’.
Tourists from Nuremberg, Germany, were arriving at one in every of the ‘most difficult airports for pilots’, Madeira Airport, when the chaos unfolded.
The jet swayed backward and forward because it inched towards the runway, before bouncing on the bottom because it landed on the Portuguese island on June 30.
Madeira Airport, officially called Cristiano Ronaldo International Airport, is notorious for its steep cliffs and unpredictable winds, which mean pilots require special training to land there.
One passenger, who claimed to be on the Marabu Airlines A320 flight, called it a ‘horror landing’.
She added: ‘Terrible. It was bumpy, it went backwards and forwards. The landing felt terrible, there was a loud bang. I believed the plane was going to interrupt apart.’
Data on Flightradar24 showed the flight suddenly swerving and flying in a loop just before 5.40pm local time before making the shaky landing.
It was, based on a YouTube account that captured the landing on a livestream, ‘a real test of skill and nerve’ for the pilot.
No less than 4 flights were diverted from Madeira Airport on June 30 as a consequence of ‘hostile weather conditions’, Correio da Manhã reported.
This affected three flights from London and one other from Vilnius.
Over 80 flights were cancelled or diverted as a consequence of high winds on the airport over three days in August 2024, although accidents are rare.
The scary Madeira Airport landing got here a day before Japan Airlines flight suddenly began ‘plummeting violently’ before making an emergency landing.
The Boeing 737 Flight JL8696/IJ004, operated under a code share take care of budget carrier Spring Airlines Japan, dropped 26,000ft in 10 minutes on Monday evening.
The aircraft, as a consequence of fly 191 passengers and crew from Shanghai to Tokyo, was diverted to Osaka shortly before 9pm local time.
Video clips posted to social media by shell-shocked travellers once they landed show oxygen masks dropping through the panic-filled descent.
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Japan’s transport ministry said the aircraft’s alarm system detected an abnormality within the mechanism accountable for maintaining cabin pressure, the Independent reports.
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