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Old 03-02-2008 | 01:36 PM
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Just saw this on pilot group email.

"I am actually living in Hamburg and I can tell you that the wheather is really not good. A quiet large gust took the Lufthansa before touching down, and only the left wing tip hit the ground. The winglet has been broken.
This evening it has been repaired at Lufthansa Technik (which - besides Frankfurt - eventually is also at Hamburg, lucky they were). Tomorrow the airplane is going to fly again.
That means that no wing structure has been affected.
It was the pilots decision to land, and it was his decision to go around. No controllers took any decision, they gave advices about the wheather and the landing permission.

Hamburg airport has 2 crossing runways. After this near-to-crash on runway 23 they chose runway 33 for landing, which obvoiusly was more beneficial with regard to western, north-western winds. (Why did they not choose this runway before?!)"
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