Pilot’s ‘blind’ landing in hail damaged plane

[BigZ]

Wow. Look at how the hail literally beat the carbon fiber into paper. The Airbus is a pretty tough ass airplane.

I'd doubt it is carbon fiber - carbon would splinter and it doesn't play well with radar due to conductivity.
But yeah, that's quite a beating.

 

[A300Capt]

Wow. Look at how the hail literally beat the carbon fiber into paper. The Airbus is a pretty tough ass airplane.

If it had been a DC-8 they would've just quick turned it after just cleaning off the windshield......

 

[SeanD]

If it had been a DC-8 they would've just quick turned it after just cleaning off the windshield......

Without a doubt.

 

[z987k]

Well the article mentioned that the A/P quit, that and, have you ever flown outside North America, Western Europe and the very largest international airports around the world? Well I have and trust me it's somewhat terrifying. Aviation infrastructure that's routine here, uh well not so much in Cameroon or Paraguay, Romania or wherever you happen to be operating. Let alone a broke, war torn country like Ukraine.. how often do you think flight check is out there at the ILS shack in places like these? Not my choice places to do a Cat III.

I'm quite aware of how 3rd world aviation works. It's a lot of what we do.