Some craking images from a guy called Zigor Alkorta appearing over in Spain.

They show an aborted landing - looks like an Iberia A321 - coming in to land at @ 45° to the direction of the runway, touching down left gear, powering off again while banking left, with the left wingtip extremely close to making contact with the runway.

Images come from www.deia.com

 

 

 

 

 

Looks dreadful -- but the 45 degree you report are just about 8 degrees (determined from simple geometry and the dimensions of the A321). For an approach speed of 140kts, this corresponds to compensating 20kts crosswind from the side -- not easy. But usually done in a slightly more elegant fashion... Andreas

The 45° is my fault I think, if that it is, as that is the number I threw to the editor when notifying him of the event, and was only meant as a rough indication  . If you drop a centerline of the plane to the runway, get out a protractor etc, and measure it off ( the point of view  ie. not verticaly above ,accounts for some exageration of the angle) it still comes out much higher. Bear in mind that over the last 24 hrs the area has had 100 km/h winds blowing, and several flights have had to be diverted from Bilbao airport due to this (according to local news reports)

Andreas, I drew up the angles over Bilbao airport on Google Earth and your simple geometry seems closer to reality (sneaky telephoto shots, never know when they will get you). Any idea why he came up again ? The tire bursts show a strong crosswind , did he bounce , have his wing lifted , or just not like the angle ?