Boeing 747 bounces on LAX runway
Dramatic video captured the moment a Lufthansa Boeing 747 bounced off the runway at Los Angeles International Airport during a hard landing.
LOS ANGELES – Chilling video captured the dramatic moment a Lufthansa Boeing 747 bounced onto the runway at Los Angeles International Airport during a hard landing.
Flight LH 456 was heading from Frankfurt to Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 23, when it made a hard landing. There were 326 passengers and 19 crew members on board the Boeing 747-8 training flight at the time, a spokesperson for Lufthansa Group, Deutsche Lufthansa, told FOX 11.
The breathtaking landing was streamed live on YouTube by Airline Videos Live. “Holy Moly!” the streaming host exclaimed as the plane bounced down the runway.
“I think it’s the hardest landing we’ve ever seen on our show,” he continued.
Boeing 747 crash lands at LAX
After the landing attempt failed, the video showed the plane rising into the sky. The Boeing 747 continued to circle the airport and landed safely shortly after.
No one was injured during the accident.
“After an assessment by the cockpit crew, consultation with the technical service on site and in Frankfurt and an initial visual inspection, the aircraft (registered D-ABYP) returned to Frankfurt,” said the spokesperson for the Lufthansa group. “There it will undergo further inspection.”
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The Associated Press contributed to this report.
