You’ve seen crazy landings before- difficult airports, hard crosswinds, and so on. Nothing will get a pilot’s adrenaline going like missing one of the main landing gear. And these pilots handle the emergency with mastery.

See for yourself what happened on this Virgin Atlantic flight from Gatwick to Las Vegas.

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