AVHerald picked this gem up.
It seems a Korean Air Airbus A380 was landing at Tokyo Narita – an airport famed for it’s mad winds sadly, made a landing – landing on one of the engine pods.
I’ll let the picture do the talking.
Picture – avherald.com
Not the most graceful of landings.
The aircraft itself was able to right itself on landing, and rolled to the gate safely. The runway was shut for 20 minutes for inspections, before being reopened.
The A380 itself returned to Seoul as booked with passengers and a 1 hour delay on the board.
Whilst Narita wild winds are known (one only need remember the FedEx crash last year), it’s amazing that there’s so minimal damage… and that Korean Air said “Hang it, we’ll fly her home with passengers rather than an empty ferry flight”
No doubt, there’s more to this than meets the eye…
