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A fearsome crosswind for sure, the peak gust far in excess of the crosswind limit.


For those unfamiliar with gas turbines, there's always a certain lag between burying the throttles into the wall and feeling a major effect. Modern turbines don't have much lag, but there's always some. Just goes to show "when in doubt power out" has more than one use.


I was always told that in the future, airliners would operate fully automatically, with a pilot and a dog in the cockpit. The pilot was there to feed the dog and the dog was there to bite the pilot if he tried to touch anything.