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Published 07:22 19 Apr 2013 BST
Updated 22:25 14 Nov 2014 GMT
Those of you who already find flying a difficult experience may find this difficult to watch, but thankfully, despite an incredibly dramatic landing, it all worked out alright in the end.
Anyone that’s set foot outside in the past few days and nearly been blown away by the high winds will know how breezy it’s been of late and while that is a minor inconvenience for us, it is a pretty big occupational hazard for airline pilots.
That fact was demonstrated in dramatic fashion at Leeds Bradford Airport, where the pilot of a Ryanair plane struggled in the high winds and was forced into a dramatic side-on landing, which sent smoke billowing across the runway before the pilot eventually managed to bring the plane under control again.
Reports suggest that a number of planes struggled to take off at the airport as winds reached in excess of 70 miles per hour but thankfully, although those inside this particular plane must have got a helluva fright, there was nobody hurt at the end of it all.
Yikes!

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