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This Plane Came Ridiculously Close To Landing On Top Of A Sunbather

7년 전 제출됨

This is the incredible moment a plane came within inches of landing on a man sunbathing on a beach in Germany. (www.youtube.com) 기타...

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Mike Williams 7년 전 7

It looks like he might have struck the prop on the fence post also. That was a bad approach.

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Torsten Hoff 7년 전 5

I've been to Helgoland (the German spelling) and its airport a number of times, the runways are short and primitive.

What the sunbather was doing where he is at, I do not know. People need to have some common sense and personal responsibility.

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btweston 7년 전 4

True, but the dude completely missed the runway.

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Torsten Hoff 7년 전 2

He came up 30 feet or so short of the runway threshold. An extra three feet of elevation would have allowed him to clear the fence.

Granted, the pilot screwed up and shouldn't have been that low, but there are signs there warning pedestrians about the dangers of landing and departing aircraft, and they are there for a reason. Sunbathing just feet from an active runway threshold is foolish at best.

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btweston 7년 전 3

I don't dispute that. But the the guy laying out on the beach doesn't need a license to do that.

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Torsten Hoff 7년 전 3

True. But standing (not actually sunbathing) in the short final for the runway is extraordinarily stupid, and he is doing it despite having been warned of the risk of serious injury or death. I found a picture of the sign on Google Earth:

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/73862191.jpg

I can make out the first three lines:

ACHTUNG! (I'm pretty sure I don't need to translate that)
Tieffliegende Flugzeuge (Low-flying airplanes)
LEBENSGEFAHR (Risk of death)

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Torsten Hoff 7년 전 1

Turns out they have traffic lights as well to warn pedestrians of approaching aircraft:

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/29249654.jpg

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AWAAlum 7년 전 1

Maybe they were having a "Wayne's World Moment".

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Torsten Hoff 7년 전 1

It looks like the video is from Runway 33, the primary runway at Helgoland due to the prevailing winds. The length is 1575 feet.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Heligoland/@54.1843558,7.9162772,1470m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x47b5b5f6bcbddf37:0x4248963c6580400

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heligoland_Airport

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ra ko 7년 전 1

No its runway 21. The length is 1217 feet.

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mskierki 7년 전 1

Not that it matters, but the pilot is landing on Rwy 21. You can see the control tower in the background at the end of the clip. The guy was way low, that end of the runway has a displaced threshold, probably because of the beach.

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Erik Moen 7년 전 1

Well the warning signs are everywhere. So the guy shouldn't be standing where he was. But the pilot is definitely way too low and slow for RWY 21, dragging his plane in just over the beach. Been there many times in an Archer 2 and everytime somebody has to stand in the extended centerline to watch incoming or outgoing traffic. The followimg link shows the situation:
http://www.flughafen-helgoland.de/helgoland-duene-edxh-karten-flugplatzkarte.html

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Andrew Prakken 7년 전 3

Clicking on the youtube Link above does not show any video. Something due to ownership or Copyright laws. Click on this link, altho it may not be the same as above, but it show a plane coming in incredibly close to a sunbather. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-e2ZQLwEI4

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N5DW 7년 전 3

No matter what you say about the pilot, airport policies, warning signage, etc -
the sunbather was definitely a candidate for the Darwin Award. Had he lost his head, or whatever, he would have cinched that award !!

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James Carlson 7년 전 2

Here's another. Complete with inane banter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-e2ZQLwEI4

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tim mitchell 7년 전 2

yep he def. took out a fence post

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Brian Bishop 7년 전 2

Yep, fence post went flying!

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CaptainFreedom 7년 전 2

Did he check his back for tread marks? He might have prevented the plane from undershooting the runway.

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joel wiley 7년 전 1

Finally, a use for them tourists!

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tim mitchell 7년 전 2

he actually rolled over and covered his head

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john cook 7년 전 1

It's been Blocked!!!

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Pa Thomas 7년 전 1

"Ridiculously close" "was saved by this one simple trick"

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oowmmr 7년 전 1

I'm gonna hit the numbers!!!

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jmilleratp 7년 전 1

Terrain. Terrain.

Every time I hear anyone say "terrain" I hear the computer voice in my head!

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sking100 7년 전 1

And WHY exactly is there an airport on this spit of land with no vehicle access? Looks like an old training base for military from WWII.

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Torsten Hoff 7년 전 1

Convenience. You can either take a boat or fly. There is a high-speed catamaran service from Hamburg that takes about four hours one way, a larger but slower ferry vessel takes twice as long. Flights take only 30 minutes.

Transfers from Düne (Dune) to the main island are by small motorboat. If you use one of the larger ferries, you still have to disembark into one of the motorboats since the ferries anchor in the bay. If you want to visit Helgoland for a day-trip, flying leaves you with much more time on the island to explore.

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usad 7년 전 1

Someone please repost a working link to the video when it resurfaces! I've got to see it again!

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dave garcia 7년 전 1

Talk about up close and personal!! Bet that sunbather will be a smidgen to the left or right of the runway next time. That pilots got some splainin to do!!

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Graham Bentley 7년 전 1

Not playable. This video contains content from Top Channel, who has blocked it on copyright grounds

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Stewart Smith 7년 전 1

Can't see it:

This video contains content from Top Channel, who has blocked it on copyright grounds.

Sorry about that.

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Graham Bentley 7년 전 1

you can see the video here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpDMNIZj2TM

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lynx318 7년 전 1

Original clip
http://www.bild.de/video/clip/unfaelle/gefaehrliche-landung-auf-helgoland-36213360,auto=true.bild.html

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Rob Hendriks 7년 전 1

LINK KICKED COPURIGHT REASONS

Deze video bevat inhoud van Top Channel, die deze wegens auteursrechtschending heeft geblokkeerd.

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Buzz Schranz 7년 전 1

Crapping flying on the part of the pilot in the video not withstanding, what was the idiot doing laying in the flight path??????

I've made a couple hundred landings and take offs at SXM in 757's. The idiots down on the beach do everything they can to get blown away.....

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Jerry Rader 7년 전 1

Landing short loses in a spot landing contest. This guy lost!
If he had hit that sunbather and the sunbather survived, the ownership of that airplane would have probably changed hands.

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tim mitchell 7년 전 2

if he had hit the guy the guy probably wouldn't have a head; plane ownership would have been the last of his concerns.

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MrTommy 7년 전 1

Now we can't access the video - Grrrrrr.

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lynx318 7년 전 1

The link I put below to the Bild.tv website is the original, it works fine.

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kevgza 7년 전 1

Cannot view the video. It has being blocked to copyright.

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AWAAlum 7년 전 1

Check further down this page - there are several postings of working links.

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Bob Therina 7년 전 1

I think it's more likely that the "sunbather" saw a plane coming and told his buddy to "watch this!" His buddy filmed and we end up with a story of some guy who just happened to be "sunbathing" in front of a runway.

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Bernie20910 7년 전 1

He wasn't sunbathing there; he was just walking past. (No towel, blanket, chair, nothing at all around him.None of the things a sunbather would have with them.) And looking at it frame by frame I'm pretty sure it was the right gear that took out the fencepost, but he caught the wire with the prop.

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Harald Beyer 7년 전 1

I have landed there myself. This airport holds some of the shortest runways in Germany if not the shortest of all. Obviously the plane was too low on final. To warn people on the beach there is a traffic light signaling inbound traffic to sunbathers. The island itself is a must see for those who manage to get there in one piece as it survived the largest manmade non-nuclear explosion after world war II that was meant to destruct the entire island.

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Mark Holm 7년 전 1

Looking at the Google aerial photo, the offset runway markings are not terribly prominent, and the numbers are at the beginning of the offset portion, not at the beginning of the landing portion, just beyond the threshold, where they most commonly are placed. Apparently this is a legal way to do the markings, but, as in so many things in aviation, doing things more than one way invites mistakes.

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Mark Holm 7년 전 2

Looking briefly at the US and Canadian standards, having the numbers at the beginning of the offset portion instead of the landing portion is only approved for a temporary situation. The Heligoland 21 situation certainly looks like a permanent one. I don't know the German rules, but if they are harmonized with the US and Canadian, then the numbers are in the wrong place on this runway. That could certainly lead to pilot error.

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ra ko 7년 전 1

The number is at the beginning of the LDA and this is international standard.

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