Reports on UK television this evening (3rd March 2008) showed the difficulties a Lufthansa Airbus A320 had attempting to land in Hamburg during a strong crosswind. During landing a strong wind gust makes the plane clip it’s wing and lose left winglet … Major aviation forums are split between blaming the pilots, the weather, or an air-traffic controller for allowing the landing - but clearly what matters is that luckily they were able to avoid bigger problems which could definitely have happened in that type of an accidet … You can see the video taken by the airport fence. More See also the Spiegel report. More