Watch: Pilot aborts landing in high wind
Airbus A321 is thrown wildly off course by adverse weather, forcing pilot to pull up and adandon landing attempt
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A video has emerged of a pilot aborting the landing of a plane at a UK airport in high winds.
The footage, from Birmingham International Airport in central England on Saturday, shows the pilot pull the Airbus A321 up at the very last second, with the wind throwing the plane wildly off course.
Uploaded to YouTube by a user name ‘Flugsnug’, the video has been viewed nearly half a million times in two days.
Eventually, the pilot managed to circle around and perform an extremely bumpy landing at the second attempt.
Here’s how the drama unfolded:
1) Video begins
2) Plane overhead
3) Final approach
4) Lurches left
5) Landing aborted
6) Second time lucky
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