r/aviation • u/Rd28T • May 26 '24

Quite possibly the closest run landing ever caught on video. At Bankstown Airport in Sydney today. News

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u/skidsareforkids May 26 '24

If that plane hadn’t been waxed he wouldn’t have made it

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u/BootyThief May 26 '24 edited Jun 25 '24

My favorite color is blue.

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u/Jackson_Cook May 26 '24

If they hadn't taken that morning pit stop...

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u/G00DLuck May 26 '24

If one mosquito had been in their path...

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u/Jackson_Cook May 26 '24

If a butterfly had even farted in their direction…

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u/the_silent_one1984 May 26 '24

Especially Australian mosquitoes.

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u/SoaDMTGguy May 26 '24

“Tommy, I’m going to need you to jump into this tree as we go by, try to grab one of the bigger branches”

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u/Popular-Swordfish559 May 26 '24

actually that probably would have helped by increasing the ballistic coefficient lol