Speaking of tough landing strips... Ilushin IL-62 airliner into a farm

[ElPaso Pilot]

Hadn't seen this one before.

4 engine Ilyushin IL-62 airliner making a creative farm landing.

Low pass is followed by a landing that could have been logged several times.

Nice dirt ingestion with the reverse thrust, too.

Back story:

https://travelupdate.boardingarea.com/interflug-grass-landing/

 

[Greg Bockelman]

That was a pretty ugly landing.

 

[SkyDog58]

That was pretty cool.

 

[Dave Theisen]

The things you are willing to try in an airplane you know isn’t going to be flown again..............

 

[ElPaso Pilot]

That was a pretty ugly landing.

Probably not in the op spec, either?

 

[Tantalum]

I think I read somewhere that many of the early Russian airliners were actually built to land on unimproved surfaces.. although that was not one of the nicer landings I've seen!

 

[Bill]

He almost bought the farm with that landing.

 

[Greg Bockelman]

He almost bought the farm with that landing.

I don’t think it was life threatening.

 

[eman1200]

imagine how safe they would have been if they were velcro'd in their seats!

 

[Hawker800]

That was embarrassing. Should've stayed inside.

 

[Zeldman]

That was pretty wild..!!!!

Was that the East German version of "The Monkees" that came out of the plane.??

 

[Omalley1537]

imagine how safe they would have been if they were velcro'd in their seats!

What’s next? An AOA from Maui?

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

‘commemorating Lilienthal’s crash’
did it really say that?

 

[weilke]

‘commemorating Lilienthal’s crash’
did it really say that?

Well, its the town where Lilienthal died. Somehow the static display commemorates the aviation history of the town.

Never seen that video. This event apparently happened 2 weeks before the Berlin Wall came down. The country was in flux at the time. I guess while the government was busy clubbing protesters, someone decided that it was a good time to land an airliner in a 2700ft cow pasture (well, a gliderport anyway).

 

[Shopshirt]

I thought 2nd bounce was a go around

Thanks now I have the East German version of You keep me hangin' on stuck in my head

Set me free why don't cha babe
Get out my life why don't cha babe
'Cause you don't really love me
You just keep me hangin' on…

 

[Peter Anderson]

Was that David Hasslehof singing?


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[timwinters]

He almost bought the farm with that landing.

I don’t think it was life threatening.

Greg, Greg, Greg...

 

[German guy]

An then of course, there is this classic. The Vodka burner is rolling! You need to go faster than that, captain!

 

[Ted]

I agree with Greg that it was ugly but not life threatening. I'd imagine some of that has to do with the nature of landing something like that on an unimproved strip. I'm thinking about seeing the bounces etc. at 6Y9 or the like (Gaston's is abnormally smooth for grass) and then exaggerating that for a large aircraft.