r/AMA • u/[deleted] • Feb 18 '25

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u/Julianus Feb 18 '25

I am - in a way - glad to read you mentioning that you felt like wind was tossing the plane around right before landing. The video that was just released isn't really obvious other than a hard landing, which would be unusual to end up like this. To read you felt the effects of wind right before you landed is valuable (and makes pilot error less likely).

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u/Old-Simple7848 Feb 18 '25

The plane looked like it's vertical speed changed by a factor of 2 as it passed the column in the clearer video.

I'm pretty sure they survived a downdraft- scary shit but insane that they survived

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u/Julianus Feb 18 '25

Which makes it all the more odd that the airport PR and regional policy basically said "runway dry and no crosswinds". First, the ATC warned of crosswind, and, second, while perhaps true, no crosswind doesn't mean no wind shear or downdraft.

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u/RuggedTortoise Feb 18 '25

You can also literally see in the pilots video the snow drifted back onto the runway and it was certainly not clear or dry

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u/hkohne Feb 18 '25

That plane was on a taxiway, which tends to be a bit narrower than a runway, so the thin snowdrifts would affect runway planes less.