Passenger video shows the moment a WestJet 737 slams onto the runway in St. Maarten
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The impact is said to have caused a landing gear collapse, triggering an emergency evacuation. All passengers and crew made it out safely.
Grrwoofwag@reddit
Punched the gear right through the wing. Oof.
taveanator@reddit
I mean, I’m no mechanic, but how the hell do you fix that on an airport as small as SXM? That’s not something that props can fix…
wbg777@reddit
Same way you fix a plane that gets stranded anywhere. Fly in parts and mechanics
NoNamesLeftStill@reddit
Is a repair even possible in this case? It seems like the damage is so significant they’d need a whole new wing
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nyrb001@reddit
Repair is absolutely possible. The question is whether it is economically advantageous to the airline vs scrapping in place.
A small remote airport like that probably doesn't want a jet carcass hanging out and would charge a fair bit for storage, plus there probably aren't any facilities there that could otherwise dispose of the aircraft so repair might me a lot more reasonable than you might think.
Boeing can get the aircraft to a place where it can fly back to a major center for further repair even if it can't operate in typical revenue flight - like for instance flying the whole way with gear down and the fuselage unpressurized.
From there the decision about scrap vs repair can be made in a place where they don't have to deal with disposal of a heavily damaged aircraft on a small island.
KrustyGramps@reddit
… a 16 yr old airframe
strangemedia6@reddit
Idk, they might be okay with it. I was there a couple years after Hurricane Maria went through. The storm wrecked a ton of sailboats and yachts in the bay but the law was that you had a certain amount of time to recover your vessel before it was open for salvage. (3 years or 5 years I think) So there was just a bunch of half sunk and capsized boats all over the place. Idk if that applies here, just the idea of plane carcass sitting at the airport for years reminded me of that lol.
nyrb001@reddit
It's a lot harder to collect from a boat owner in the ocean than a corporation with their hardware on your actual property.
Malcolm2theRescue@reddit
I’d hate to see the repair bill!
NaiveRevolution9072@reddit
Really depends on if the landing gear strut punched its way through structural parts or if it is 'just' skin parts and also really if it's financially feasible. It's a 737-800 so they might just call it a writeoff whereas a newer MAX 8 would have been repaired
Playful-Painting-527@reddit
I'm pretty sure the landing gear is attached to structural parts of the airframe.
Swoop8472@reddit
Well, this one isn't...
hjs777@reddit
Anymore…
wbg777@reddit
Anything is possible with enough money, but i can guarantee there’s a significant amount of structural damage here. Repair will be in the millions of dollars and will likely need a significant amount of engineering oversight just to get the aircraft flyable so it can be ferried to a better repair location
ThatBaseball7433@reddit
Everything is possible with money. But my bet is this plane is soda cans.
really_random_user@reddit
For an old jet, Probably gonna have whatever parts stripped and sent to the scrapper
As the right wing and landing gear will need a lot of replacements parts and major repair
The engine nacell is toast.
Also the repairs will have to be certified
And the jet is 16.5 years old.
Probably will cost more fixing it than what the plane is worth
EnoughPersimmon2715@reddit
Repair or not is for the owner to decide. If repaired it will be Boeing AOG that does it.
railker@reddit
Story from 'pictures on the wall in the break room' type question asking, guess a twin-engine floatplane got stuck with engine failure on a remote lake in the middle of nowhere with nothing but a cabin and a dock. Certainly can't takeoff with one engine, and R-985s are heavy as fuk.
Supposedly spent days flying in timber with other Grummans and a Beaver, built an oldschool timber crane and swapped engines with that. So, so wish I'd taken some pictures of those photos.
that_dutch_dude@reddit
you dont. they are going to strip it and scrap it.
MapleMapleHockeyStk@reddit
That's not ideal....
wayofcain@reddit
“Yeah, that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.”
evilmonkey853@reddit
Well, how is it untypical?
wayofcain@reddit
Well there are a lot of these planes going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that planes aren’t safe.
evilmonkey853@reddit
Was this plane safe?
elvenmaster_@reddit
It seems in your anger, you killed her.
PaleHistorian520@reddit
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!
wayofcain@reddit
Well, I was thinking more about the other ones.
KingFlyntCoal@reddit
What other ones?
Superb-Photograph529@reddit
The ones where the gear doesn't punch through the wing.
Big-nose12@reddit
"Why did the gear punch through the wing?"
Slight_Bed_2241@reddit
Minimum crew requirement?
papafrog@reddit
Did anyone get hurt?
mifan@reddit
I'm not sure I understand - can you compare it to a Tolkien situation for my understanding?
xXNightDriverXx@reddit
See this video
andovinci@reddit
The plane was made out of cardboard and derivatives
top_of_the_scrote@reddit
Get me tig back in the air in an hour
Stock-Creme-6345@reddit
But, did the front fall off?
YYCDavid@reddit
It’s being towed out of the environment
its_endogenous@reddit
I’m no mechanic but I don’t think that’s supposed to happen
imp0ster_syndrome@reddit
Blue side up: Check
RogLatimer118@reddit
Is it a writeoff? Probably no.
outamyhead@reddit
Depends on if the landing messed up the main airframe, or if it was just the wing panels and structure of said wing.
TomKattWasHereB4@reddit
my thought too, if the fuselage is intact that is. if its borked then thats when repairs get pricey and safety concerns mount-if she can hold pressure shes gonna keep working.
dangledingle@reddit
I’d just like to make that point.
neurocaptain@reddit
Don't they have fuel in their wings? If so how do they keep the fuel from spilling and catching fire?
railker@reddit
And to get a little more specific to the other answer -- I believe the wing of the 737 is similar to the CRJ in that the gear isn't mounted below the fuel tank but rather behind it.
If you look at an image like this, the black lines parallel with the length of the wing mark the edges of the front/rear spar of the fuel tank. And then that little deviation near the camera is where the landing gear is mounted, I believe. So to rupture the fuel tank and cause a spill, you'd have to significantly damage that rear spar where the landing gear's mounted.
Toastman89@reddit
Yes there's fuel in the wings. Its held in tanks inside the wings. They were likely close to empty on landing.
The wings are strong (they support the weight of the plane in the air) and designed to flex (turbulence and so on).
This landing was strong enough to do something to the gear, and the weight of the plane looked to rest on the wheels and perhaps the engine nacelles. Either way the wing was intact and so was the fuel tanks inside the wings.
Short answer, its exactly the same as getting into a collision in a car. Your bumper might be all mashed up, but the fuel is happily sitting in the tank.
Now throw your car into a wall at 300mph, the fuel will come out - same as a real plane crash. But something like this... nah.
DashTrash21@reddit
There's still thousands of pounds of fuel in the tanks when a commercial jet lands.
Toastman89@reddit
I more made that point to indicate then wings would be lighter so less stress then if they were landing with full tanks
Annobanno@reddit
Oooooof - you don’t fix that at all, right? That’s totalled?
railker@reddit
Depends on what exactly it did to the wing. Alaska had a similar incident due to a pin failure a couple years ago, happened in September and it was flying again in December. That same airplane just landed in Kahului on a flight from Seattle an hour ago.
that_dutch_dude@reddit
correct
BlackHoleWhiteDwarf@reddit
Speed tape should do the trick.
SoaDMTGguy@reddit
Was the wing tank empty? Seems like the sort of thing that starts fires.
thomakob000@reddit
If the wing tank was empty, they’d be having other emergencies
teapots_at_ten_paces@reddit
🎶🎙We didn't start the fire
But we gave it a really good try!
SemiproRock@reddit
Nothing a roll of speed tape won't sort out.
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TheOneTrueZippy8@reddit
What, no applause ?
TechRyze@reddit
Just a stray bumbuclaat
DrothReloaded@reddit
Found the Navy pilot
sd_software_dude@reddit
Someone should’ve told him after their evacuating that he no longer needs to try to trap the third wire.
DrothReloaded@reddit
Gotta stick that landing
Quirky_Public_9042@reddit
Has there been a detailed crash report?
BeechGuy1900@reddit
We don't know what caused the gear to fail. It could have been a hard landing, could have been a mechanical failure akin to the Alaska 737 that had the same thing happen. It could have been both. Patently false to assume anyone knows anything right now as to why
Asianchansation@reddit
These pilots didn’t even land hard enough to get hired at Ryanair…
MasochistLust@reddit
Came here to find the Ryanair comments. 🤣
frix86@reddit
It was a hard landing, but didn't seem THAT hard...
FriendComplex8767@reddit
What passengers call as 'hard' is very different than what is defined as a 'hard landing'. 2.2G for a 737 normally needs a minor inspection, but the actual failure load where the gear shears off is going to be far greater than this.
I've only had one 'hard landing' where I genuinely thought we had crashed and many of the overhead bins opened up, the entire plane interior shook and if you weren't strapped in would have bounced off the seat. Plane was inspected and flew again in a few hours, only damage was the flight crews ego (was working for the operator at the time)
Same way passengers will say mild turbulence is severe with the wings about to fall off, while actual 'severe' or even 'heavy turbulence' is truly terrifying.
ABoutDeSouffle@reddit
How do flight captains talk about a landing where they brought down the bird much harder than they should? Is it some "man, I fucked this up" or do they joke about it or rather tell nobody?
FriendComplex8767@reddit
I don't know what they discuss behind clothes doors, but they certainly don't have cockpit door open and greet passengers as they leave! They have 1000 different excuses they use (strong crosswind, firm landing to prevent aquaplaning, traffic behind us, early taxi way etc etc)
It does send their iPad a scorecard after they land and snitch if anything is exceeded. All the flight data is sent to the server automatically, averaged and reviewed by the powers that be to look for any issues. If it was a truly crap landing, No pilot would endanger the lives of anyone however by not reporting and clear policies exist that do not blame staff if they err on the side of caution to get it inspected.
Significant-Dig8323@reddit
That's what I thought when I saw the outside video, but after seeing this it looks pretty bad, the person filming even dropped their camera.
WoodenTomato@reddit
I've certainly plastered that very machine on worse than the videos show
idhorst@reddit
You need 3x things for a perfect landing in the 737. The perfect amount of pitch, the exact speed and the third one nobody tf knows.
WoodenTomato@reddit
I've done it a few times, whether that's excessive amounts of onboard coffee, premium snacks, or not thinking about it I couldn't say
proudlyhumble@reddit
Pretty sure I did too a couple nights ago at LaGuardia, smh
BeechGuy1900@reddit
7002 feet. Better firm than float!
neotokyo2099@reddit
Accurate username
Educational_Clothes2@reddit
This guy knows Boeing’s version of a good landing
BeechGuy1900@reddit
On speed, on centerline, in the TDZE, firm. No soft landings required
Kdj2j2@reddit
Exactly what my airline says to do.
ihedenius@reddit
Found the carrier pilot.
BigJellyfish1906@reddit
it doesn’t have to be *that* hard if you don’t touchdown on both mains evenly.
xchoo@reddit
Yeah.. I swear I've seen harder ryan air landings. 😆
ABoutDeSouffle@reddit
What's with all those Ryanair jokes? Starting to get old a bit.
shrunkenhead041@reddit
I've absolutely been on harder landings than that.
sourcefourmini@reddit
I flew cross-country with my cat once, 4.5 hours PHX-BOS. She vocally hated the car ride to the airport, but not a single peep out of her once she was settled onboard under the seat in front of me. Until we touched down in BOS with the probably the *ahem firmest* landing I've ever experienced. Everyone on the plane "oof"ed, and at the same time, I heard a long, low "mrrrrowwwww" from my feet. All I could think was "yup, us too".
LearningDumbThings@reddit
I’ve absolutely made harder landings than that.
lueckestman@reddit
Gotta pay for the greesed landing there.
VanillaTortilla@reddit
I mean, Ryanair makes landings harder than this all the time and hasn't had this happen, as far as I know.
Hour_Analyst_7765@reddit
Without having access to G readings, and seeing the exterior videos, I indeed would expect a 737 to take a much harder landing. The thud sound in this video is a bit misleading IMO as obviously buckling and crunching metal will make a bunch of noise.
Fortunately no fire etc. and everyone walked away.
Allaplgy@reddit
In the exterior video, it does look like it suddenly dips hard right before touchdown and puts all the force on that gear.
Kijukura@reddit
Look at it from the outside perspective, it was a hard landing AND on top of that all the landing force was on the right MLG. It wasn't equally distributed which could've led to the collapse.
YMMV25@reddit
If this were sufficient to rip the gear off half of FR’s fleet would be grounded indefinitely.
BigJellyfish1906@reddit
The alaska airlines plane still had a very hard landing. It wasn’t hard enough to cause a structural failure on its own, but it was a whopper.
I don’t think that’s the case at this plane, because he definitely planted it hard *on one landing gear*.
mtr75@reddit
One thing worth noting is that the right main took all of the initial impact. Maybe distributed over both mains it wasn’t that hard of a landing, but all of that force on one side (with some right wing-down input from the pilot a split second before “arrival”) might be a different story.
FragrantExcitement@reddit
What caused the cameraman to fail?
Expo737@reddit
He did the correct thing and adopt the brace position, he didn't know that it wasn't going to dig in and turn off the runway or not.
BeechGuy1900@reddit
They dont make em like they used to, unfortunately
Nyaos@reddit
Boeings are designed well enough to be slammed into the ground on occasion. In the official Flight Crew Training Manual it recommends “a flare for passenger comfort”
Expo737@reddit
The 737 Classic FCTM recommends "firm landings" though that is to prevent aquaplaning on wet runways ;)
Incidentally I was PAX on a 737-800 a couple of months back coming into Santorini at night, it was a bloody hard landing, even I went "oof". The purser made a welcome to Santorini announcement and added "for those of you that have never been here before that was a perfectly normal landing" - I turned to my wife and said "the reverse thrust yes, the being shot down less so".
I had a hard landing in an A320 a few months back and the FO (P/F) came back into the cabin on turnaround to apologise and ask if we were all alright :)
I had a particularly bad one nearly 20 years ago on the 767, you never get a smooth landing on those crates since Boeing put the gear on "backwards" but I digress. We came into SFB with a mighty thud, some lockers popped open but most of the oxygen masks dropped too. It was complete pandemonium with the screaming passengers all trying to put masks on and us trying to tell them that we are on the ground... It was funny handing the aircraft over to the next crew, we told them they might as well get the hotel shuttle with us ;)
ethotopia@reddit
So fucking wild that we can see two different POVs of an extremely rare event within hours of it happening
railker@reddit
That's like, so many of them now. Air India, we had the vantage from the balcony. Voepass we had like 5-6 different angles from 'across the city' to 'from the backyard next to the crash site'. We even had a dude on Facebook Live during the Yeti Air ATR crash.
Cameras everywhere now.
joecarter93@reddit
It’s not aviation related, but the first disaster where it hit me just how prevalent cameras are was the 2011 Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami. I recall being captured on video as it happened and broadcast pretty much immediately, which blew me away.
_deffer_@reddit
I remember in my senior year AP Bio class watching the second plane hit the tower live on TV. You have maybe dozens of angles of that.
Now there'd be thousands, if not tens of thousands, of angles and videos of it happening.
GSXS_750@reddit
Gotta film for those internet points
Dangerous-Salad-bowl@reddit
...adding Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243.
sonsofgondor@reddit
Is that the one that was livestreamed? If so, that is the craziest accident video I have ever seen
ArnoldoSea@reddit
Also adding that Delta CRJ that flipped upside down in Toronto. Someone in the flight deck of another plane just happened to be filming the landing.
ElenaKoslowski@reddit
I remember when people started questioning why they were filming like it's some conspiracy... Duuh, aircraft nerds film aircraft nerds flying aircrafts all the time.
Esuna1031@reddit
Its funny how a few years ago were afraid the govt would be spying on us with thousands of cameras, but it turns out wer just doing it ourselves with our massive digital footprints 😁😁
el__gato__loco@reddit
…yet still no Bigfoot
Acheloma@reddit
I live near a big national forest that borders a reservation, and both the land management guys that work the forest and the people I know that live on the reservation insist that bigfoot is real. I honestly cant tell if its some big joke that Im not in on, if everyone is just crazy, or if there really is a rogue bigfoot out in the woods. Apparently he throws rocks at the heavy equipment and cars lol.
goldenkicksbook@reddit
Bigfoot is one of those guys that just looks blurry, you know? You can try to take his picture but he always looks out of focus.
mysteryliner@reddit
Dont know if I'm allowed to talk about that. But i thought it was general knowledge that all camera manufacturers put code inside their hardware. So whenever bigfoot is seen, it immediately goes blurry
goldenkicksbook@reddit
I always suspected this! It’s like when you try to photocopy bank notes. The manufacturers must be part of some kind of Save the Yeti movement!
kussian@reddit
BigAssFoot😋
qdp@reddit
The link for anybody else like me who hasn’t seen the video from outside the plane.
https://sh.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1nazgma/westjet_737_hard_landinggear_collapse_at_st/
tiorzol@reddit
Thanks.
mysteryliner@reddit
While still having the livestream up of the plane on the runway in the dark 10+ hours later.
Or rolling back the live stream, seeing the emergency vehicles spraying warer / foam.... People jumping down the slide, ....
adjust_your_set@reddit
To be fair, SXM is one of the most videoed airports in the world.
bfgvrstsfgbfhdsgf@reddit
Is this one live too?
Ashamed-Election2027@reddit
“Fif..for..thir..twen…ttt….BOOOOOM”
shankillfalls@reddit
I don’t think Spielberg needs to worry about his job, this is a major fail for the camera person. 🤪
MadBrown@reddit
Pilot just couldn't wait to get on the beach.
Dangerous_Seaweed601@reddit
"But for me, it was Tuesday"
- Ryanair
Careless_Musician_91@reddit
Maybe the captain forgot he no longer flying a f-18 in the Navy .
T4H4_2004@reddit
It doesn’t even seem like that hard of a landing. Was the tire pressure too low?
SkyHighExpress@reddit
Nice filming. What shoes were they again?
Malcolm2theRescue@reddit
Gee if this were a movie you could complain but if you’re not a total moron, when you’re in a plane crash getting clicks takes a back seat to preparing to evacuate.
RedDirtDVD@reddit
That’s not a crash. That’s a landing.
Malcolm2theRescue@reddit
Most likely the plane will be written off. The FAA doesn’t have a specific definition for “crash”. Just incident or accident. This easily qualifies as the latter. Another thing to think of is that the gear punched through a wing that is also a fuel tank so the possibility of a fire was strong. Think of the fire on the BA 737 at Manchester.
Alarming-Contract-10@reddit
The damaged and unserviceable aircraft with a tire and strut assembly blown through the top of its wing, begs to differ.
SkyHighExpress@reddit
Erm so the video was posted as an educational video of what to do prior to an evacuation? The over 1k of clicks was an unfortunate coincident?
GGCRX@reddit
It's nice to know there's at least something that takes priority over getting clicks these days. ;)
ffffh@reddit
As Juan Brown would say, "KABLAMO!"
Malcolm2theRescue@reddit
My favorite YouTube.
xwell320@reddit
It really didn't that hard a touchdown, to put the gear strut through the wing? I think there must have been a mechanical failure or metal fatigue in the gear.
nyrb001@reddit
You honestly believe North American commercial aircraft are flying around with fatigue so bad parts punch through each other on a hard landing?
Aviation safety is taken far, far more seriously than that. This plane hit the ground HARD. Despite the damage to the aircraft, everyone on board was fine. Expensive for the airline, but everything worked exactly how it should.
Prestigious_Soil_454@reddit
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/27/us/landing-gear-collapse-on-alaska-airlines-737-caused-by-excessive-grinding-during-maintenance-ntsb-says
xwell320@reddit
I just watched a firm touchdown where the gear went through the wing, so yes I am suggesting that. If you're saying 'everyone was fine' 'everything worked exactly as it should' after watching a likely hull loss then I think you should reassess your standards.
Prestigious_Soil_454@reddit
Landing wasn't great, but wasn't enough to have that happen to a perfectly healthy 737 landing gear. I suspect this will end up being the same failure as the Alaska in BUR a while back.
Highlightthot1001@reddit
Ow
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Read more at Aviation Herald.
nacnud_uk@reddit
If you've gone as far as the ground, you've gone too far.
xchoo@reddit
To compare: A passenger video from Alaska Airlines AS1288 (where a similar thing happened)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VpBHiQVYt4
Sowhataboutthisthing@reddit
The apple alarm ringing in the background is incredibly annoying.
VanillaTortilla@reddit
That was a horrible video experience, lol
FriendComplex8767@reddit
That most certainly was not a 'hard landing', didn't even look firm.
No doubt it will boil down to corrosion like the Alaskan 737.
juusohd@reddit
How would corrosion that extensive go unnoticed?
v60qf@reddit
a lot of the time it’s not extensive corrosion, it’s a small amount of localised corrosion in the right (wrong) place.
peepay@reddit
So my plane can just fall apart mid air?
Latvian-Spider@reddit
Maybe if it was internal, hard to see without taking the whole gear apart?
FriendComplex8767@reddit
The industry says the same thing after every incident! (fan blades letting go to the entire roof blowing off a 737)
I don't honestly know, I work behind a desk and only get the scary company wide powerpoint slides.
Aluminum corrodes in some interesting ways which in general can hide damage, especially if fatigue sets in or it gets missed and refurbished which covers the damage (resurfacing etc) to the visual eye. It does not look like some rusty steel bolt.
Strict_Lettuce3233@reddit
11A survived again
peepay@reddit
Technically correct.
ttystikk@reddit
The pilot tried way too hard to put the plane down while it was still going waaaaay too fast. Failure to establish a stabilized landing.
That-Makes-Sense@reddit
9/10. The plane couldn't immediately be used again.
Sorry_U_R_Wrong@reddit
Spirit Airlines: "Hold my beer" Ryanair: "Hold my vodka"
Standard-Tear-6162@reddit
Who is the pilot and what does he say?
st_v_Warne@reddit
Pilot is former navy
77WBellyCargo@reddit
With how hard it is to get spare these days, might just use it for parts
happierinverted@reddit
“Excuse me stewardess, did we land or were we shot down?”
really_random_user@reddit
The jet is 16.5 years old and needs a major repair of the wing, plus landing gear probably.
I'll be very surprised if it's not scrapped
GawldDawlg@reddit
This is 100% boeings fault. Cant wait for the findings.
Apprehensive_Cost937@reddit
The airplane was 16 years old, and likely it's been that long since someone from Boeing inspected it, so it'd be quite unlikely it's their fault.
Dry-Marketing-6798@reddit
They felt that lol
backshell@reddit
USNavy pilot was going for the cable arrester.
bustervich@reddit
You’re very clever.
torquesteer@reddit
I say we give him this one since St. Maarten does look like an aircraft carrier.
747ER@reddit
There needs to be a version of this with “must be RyanAir”, getting so sick of those
Malcolm2theRescue@reddit
The biggest critics of Ryan Air seem to be guys with nothing but a hundred hours in Cessnas who think they are airline pilots because they took the course from ATP. Ryanair has as good a safety record as any other airline.
mattrussell2319@reddit
Amongst the best safety record, Petter Hornfeldt (who flew with them) is a fantastic advocate for aviation safety, and I just had two perfectly good landings with them (even though operated by their Buzz subsidiary), both in awkward conditions for various reasons.
Maximus13@reddit
Finally, a funny meme on this sub
gefahr@reddit
Now I'm off to find the template
bustervich@reddit
Look for SpongeBob Ole Reliable
gefahr@reddit
Thank you
readonlyred@reddit
"On the two wire. Booyah. Fly Navy."
MeatWagonBBQ@reddit
I was thinking the same thing!!
Revi_____@reddit
Everyone shitting on the person filming, mate. He's sitting right above a landing gear that broke. Most likely, he had a moment of contemplating if he would be alive or not.
My last priority would be to keep the camera steady and give a nice video for people to watch online.
SoaDMTGguy@reddit
That’s why we need r/aviation commenters on accident flights. Only the brave men and women of this sub would be nerdy enough to prioritize video of their crashing airplane over their own personal safety.
NoNamesLeftStill@reddit
I mean to be fair, nothing you can do about it at that point. You’re either gonna live or you’re gonna die. Might as well get the most accurate documentation you can.
/s
mattrussell2319@reddit
Exactly. First he’s had his phone nearly knocked out of his hands, then he’s likely focused on dealing with an emergency. Personally, my reaction would be to secure my phone so it doesn’t interfere with anything and find out what I need to do next
Forsaken-Builder-312@reddit
But think of the many likes he could get for a better video...
RootsRockData@reddit
The other angle I saw did not look bad at all. Wild the gear collapsed
user83726169@reddit
The right wing dropped with no pilot input, could be a freak gust of wind
https://www.threads.com/@kcjarvis1/post/DOT8AL4DR1v?xmt=AQF0vgrK4isGeX1kF6VoEnZO54BAkucpbT5hLYbiL-IVeA&slof=1
CreeT6@reddit
definitely pilot input
railker@reddit
idk, spoilers came up and aileron went up right between 0:09-0:10, I'd call that pilot input. Very brief opposite aileron to roll back left the milliseconds before touchdown.
ARRR_P@reddit
Guess we have to change all ryan air hard landing jokes to westjet now then
secretincognitouser@reddit
I hope that pilot got a good booing!
TechWaveNavigator@reddit
Was it really that hard? Ryanair seems to do harder landings without the gear caving in sometimes . Any possibility it was a defect of the gear?
Kijukura@reddit
Definitely was a defect, I've seen Ryanair landings where the wing bends down and the plane is still fine.
BlacklightsNBass@reddit
For like a fraction of a second you can see where the gear rammed thru the top of wing.
FlyFeetFiddlesticks@reddit
As someone who has watched many SCM beach videos. This guy looks like he came in way too high
Noobtastic14@reddit
I thought that too- he touched down way late for that strip with a lot of energy.
Kijukura@reddit
Didn't touch down too late, he was right where he was supposed to be.
snafu0390@reddit
Definitely not too late. Watching the exterior view of the landing, he touched down just before the 1,000’ aiming points. Right wing flight spoiler deflection just before touchdown indicates the flight controls were moved to initiate a right bank… whether that was to counteract a gust or something else remains to be seen. It was a hard landing onto one MLG. Still didn’t look THAT hard though.
flightist@reddit
No, the SCM beach videos are usually somewhere between kinda low and really, really fucking low.
gefahr@reddit
About 15 years ago I hung out on that beach watching arrivals for several hours. I absolutely could not believe how little clearance there was between the top of the fence and the aircraft. I have photos and videos, but not good enough ones to be worth posting, given how many professional ones there are online these days.
HarryLipper@reddit
Famously short runway there on St. Maarten.
Nvestmentguy@reddit
Camera man you had one job !!!!
juusohd@reddit
Yes, to prepare for possible evacuation.
G25777K@reddit
Well he probably got the brunt of landing and said fuck it to rest of the vid lol
w_33_by@reddit
r/killthecameraman, but glad everyone made it safely
freqspace@reddit
Your near death experience has not adequately entertained us. /s
MANPAD@reddit
Everyone else*
shrunkenhead041@reddit
I understand a moment to refocus, but seriously would have been interesting to see the "after" shot.
FoxtownBlues@reddit
i was actually more interested in the interior roughly where camman was seated cos from the external video the plane looked really low, i wondered where all that landing gear went, if it had entered the passengers compartment or damaged the interior somewhat, which looks non-catastrophic in this clip
railker@reddit
On the 737 the landing gear is mounted outboard of the fuselage, if it went up it did so like this.
forgottensudo@reddit
Did that to a car once…
Mr_McMuffin_Jr@reddit
Ummm. Bit fast there…
Mediocre_Cat_3577@reddit
Didn't look like high descent rate to me, maybe the strut oleo locked up?
Puravida1904@reddit
Omg I’ve been on that tail number recently
woodworkingguy1@reddit
Ryan Air has already offered the pilot a position.
zipzapkazoom@reddit
Spirit Airlines in the US is competing for him.
gefahr@reddit
They can't afford him.
BalzacTheGreat@reddit
You’re coming in too hot!
PeckerNash@reddit
We’re goin’ in, we’re goin’ full throttle, that oughtta keep those budget airlines off our back.
zipzapkazoom@reddit
It felt fast to me also.
Scrapla1@reddit
GADZOOKS!
hey_hey_hey_nike@reddit
One of the nicer Ryan Air landings as of late
Silent-Wonder6546@reddit
Pilot's a navy guy lol
djsnoopmike@reddit
Doesn't seem that hard of a landing, landing gears should've been able to tank that
Iosag@reddit
I'm not expert but it looks like they flared around 6s to 9s, from 9s to 10s were flat then at 10s just dropped into the runway. The flatlining during the flare then dropping as opposed to a smooth transition looks like it contributed to the hard landing.
Iosag@reddit
Rather than down voting me could all of you experts explain what I said that was wrong? Sorry - just trying to learn here.
Educational_Clothes2@reddit
This guy has been filming high school fights
death_by_chocolate@reddit
I was afraid we were gonna see 'em pee their pants. Grateful to be wrong.
ArgonWilde@reddit
God damn Navy pilots!
AdultContemporaneous@reddit
I was wondering if we'd see something like this.
Joe_Go_Ebbels@reddit
Well at least he didn’t end up upside down.
Thatsnotbutterbuddy@reddit
Well… ya made it …. 🤷♂️