Clip "How Not To Land an Airliner"

Factual Questions
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First, I’m not sure how to add a clip to a post, so I have to apologize for not attaching it or a link to it here.

Anyway, there is a clip that’s been circulating on the Internet; I got it as “How Not to Land an Airliner” and it depicts what appears to be a Boeing 737-300 being brought in for a very bad landing. The wings tilt back and forth on final as if in a crosswind, and then it lands hard and bounces several times even harder on the nosewheel. The vertical stabilizer appears to have a dark design, perhaps mostly green, on it and the fuselage is all white and appears to say “(Something) W AIR” on the forward part above the windows.

Does anyone know anything about this clip? What airline is it? Where and when was the clip taken?

Thanks

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Link. It’s too small to make out the logo on the tail.

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Welcome to the boards Mr. Milton!

First of all, you can’t post attachments here on the SDMB. Links work, though.

This link has the entire video. I’ve seen this movie circulating myself, and most of them have the video “shortened” as in Q.E.D.'s link.

Straight Dope: It’s a fake airline and a doctored video. It’s from a Heinekin commercial.

And BTW, the airplane is an Airbus A320. :wink:

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Thanks for the link!

Can anyone make out what it says on the fuselage? I asked a friend, but he came back with IOWA AIR, and there is no such airline. I tried IONA AIR, but it appears to be a “private airline” charter service in Dublin, Ireland. It doesn’t appear to have “big” aircraft like this, but I can’t confirm it.

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It looks like “T R W AIR” to me. But I could be wrong.

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Many thanks for the fast reply! I knew I could count on the SDMBers!

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I’m 99% certain it say ‘TBWAIR’. Which turns up nothing on Google. I also am pretty sure it’s Schipol airport.

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They did a pretty good job making it look realistic. I was fooled.

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I have to say i thought it looked bogus on first viewing - I may be wrong, but to my eye, that rocking/kangarooing motion after touchdown looks very severe and I’d expect to see damage and/or flexing of the fuselage - the whole thing just looks too rigid.

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If you view it at full size in Windows Media Player you can read the slogan T B W AIR plain as day.

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I’m glad that was proven fake - I was looking at the first one thinking "The porpoising motion looks like a model jetliner - not possible for real with that much mass… but it has landing lights!!! :confused: :confused: :confused: " :smiley:

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The bouncing doesn’t look right. It is too quick and reminds me of a poing pong ball being allowed to bounce to a standstill. My first thought when I saw it was that it looks like a small model, just from it’s bouncing motion, not from what the actual aircraft looks like.