![]() 02/11/2019 at 10:35 • Filed to: wingspan, Planelopnik | ![]() | ![]() |
Courcheval Airport, located 6,588 feet above sea level in the French Alps, is a tricky airport to land at in the best conditions. At 1,722 feet, the runway is short, and the mountain at the end means there are no go-arounds. You get one shot. Last Friday, the pilot of this Piper Malibu Mirage landed long and fast, and luckily had a large snowbank at the end of the runway to cushion his mistake. I’m not sure why the people heard in this video are laughing, since it’s no laughing matter. Perhaps a little too much après-ski. The passengers suffered only minor injuries and were treated at the airport care center.
Here’s another angle.
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Sent
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C oming in hot!
Stopping cold.
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At 6,600' in a Malibu, I think you’re pretty much have be perfect (or better) to land on a 1,700' runway unless you had a decent headwind.
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Pilot should taken caution with the wintry conditions and installed snow tires.
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I just LOLd like a ninth grader at the registration.
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The first half of that runway is uphill, and I’m sure that would help. But this guy was going so fast that the hill probably acted like a ski ramp. I watched another video of a guy landing a Mooney there and just before he touched down the stall warning hooter went off. A lot less speed to begin with, but I would imagine that’s what you want at Courcheval.
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he needs AWD
/s
![]() 02/11/2019 at 11:17 |
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The up slope is a big help, yes.
On a short runway like that, you definitely would like to hear that stall horn in the flare.
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I like that. It’s a better headline than the one I came up with.
![]() 02/11/2019 at 11:26 |
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I hadn’t noticed. That’s either hilarious or ironic or both.
![]() 02/11/2019 at 11:37 |
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This is why helicopters exist
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St Bart’s has an airport that has a steep hill on one side and water on the other. Takes a lot of skill to land there and you only see small planes.
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Reminds me of Toncontin in Honduras, where the planes basically fly down a hillside to get to the runway.
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I was going to say, the crash isn’t funny but that registration sure is