Some of you act like you've never had a bad landing. If you really are the professional pilots you claim to be then I'm sure you've landed in plenty of stiff crosswinds and I'm sure you've had your fair share of good landings and plenty you'd rather forget. When I land in a crosswind, as almost everyone else flying a transport category jet, I try to crab, kick it out while lowering the upwind aileron in one motion as the mains are touching down. Often times it works perfect, sometimes you flare too high and get blown a little off the center line and have to fight it the last few feet down, sometimes the runway sneaks up on you and you kick out the crab too late. Who really cares, we all have good and not so good landings. In the end they taxied off the runway, got their passengers to the terminal safely, and as far as I know the plane is still fine.

Crazy that after watching one landing on youtube and some of you think you can claim that these guys have bad technique. I thought the landing was fine, a little late on kicking the crab out sure, but even with the perfect technique and perfect intentions not every landing turns out the way we want it to. Have some humility.