Windy day in Chicago

[Steve M]

Coming in tail first, Wow!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97UnW-A4FRM

[Steve M]

That's extreme crabbing for a passenger jet.

[mustangaroo]

I do not know the stall speed for something that massive but I do know there were skid marks that did not look like tire (tyre?) tracks. I landed in KOKC in a people mover that cut grass with the right wing thanks to a 45 mph quartering gust from the southwest. I thanked the white faced pilots as I left the plane and offered to buy them a drink but they were too stunned to respond it seems. It works that way in life.... 99.9 percent utter boredom sprinkled with .1 percent sheer terror. The angle of the video suggests a vantage point that only the people from Chicago would know about.