American Airlines Flight 300 began a normal takeoff — then the plane suddenly yawed hard and rolled so violently that the ...

Aviation safety experts said Tuesday strong crosswinds likely were a factor in an accident last month that sent a Continental Airlines jet into a bone-jarring veer off a Denver runway and across open, ...

Strong winds at Heathrow Airport turned routine arrivals into demanding technical landings. Airbus and Boeing aircraft were forced to crab into the runway, approaching at sharp angles to counter the ...

A plane descending into Birmingham International Airport in England got caught in a crosswind on Saturday, Oct. 1, and was forced to miss its landing just moments before touch down. Photo/Video: ...

Landing in a crosswind can be terrifying, but just watch this video and see how much the wings of a Boeing 767 flex during severe turbulence. It’s… disconcerting ...

The pilot’s inability to maintain directional control with a gusting left crosswind during landing on March 5, 2023, resulted in a runway excursion. Credit: NTSB Honda Aircraft’s HondaJet has ...

During crosswinds, you control the track of the airplane by adjusting the heading, this is known as crabbing. As the airplane nears touchdown, the pilot usually will apply rudder to swing the nose to ...

The article discusses two primary crosswind landing techniques: the "slip" method (author's preference, involving lowering the upwind wing and using opposite rudder throughout final approach and ...

Scientists from the German Aerospace Centre, in collaboration with the Technical University of Braunschweig and Leibniz University Hannover, investigated this in a test facility in a wind tunnel, a ...

The next time you feel like complaining about flying, (so, the next time you fly) a report this morning from a pilot landing at Dulles International Airport in Washington, DC, should put things into ...

Pilot's incredible white-knuckle landing Link Copied! An Airbus A380 battled a strong crosswind while landing at Düsseldorf International Airport in Germany.