Wild Video Shows Boeing 747 Bouncing Off Runway in Failed Landing

A Lufthansa Airlines Boeing 747 was forced to abort its landing at Los Angeles International Airport this week, after the plane dramatically bounced twice on the runway. And the wild video shows just how scary it was.

The footage was posted online by Airline Videos Live, which livestreams from LAX. The account is run by Los Angeles-based television news photojournalist "and long time plane spotter" Kevin Ray, who could be heard expressing his disbelief at what he was witnessing.

"Don't miss the dramatic moment as a Lufthansa Boeing 747-8i performs a touch and go in front of Airline Videos Live cameras at LAX on Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024," he captioned the clip, posted to X.

Initially, nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary, until the wheels of the plane touched down and a cloud of smoke emerged from underneath the landing gear, causing it to bounce back up. "Oh, whoa whoa!" Ray could be heard exclaiming over the footage. "Are we getting that? Holy moly!"

????✈️ Don't miss the dramatic moment as a Lufthansa Boeing 747-8i performs a touch and go in front of Airline Videos Live cameras at LAX on Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024. Watch the entire video on YouTube ➡️ https://t.co/ukKWjBCjG4 #aviation #boeing747 #airplanes pic.twitter.com/I3BUvhwAou

— AIRLINE VIDEOS (@airlinevideos) April 24, 2024

After bouncing twice, the plane took back off into the skies, where it circled the airport before attempting the landing a second time without issue.

"Going around, I think that is the roughest landing we've ever caught on our broadcast," Ray adds in the full video of the botched landing, posted to YouTube. Later in the video, he says that he could even smell the burnt rubber from the jet’s wheels.

A spokesperson for the airline told Los Angeles' KTLA 5 News late Wednesday that there had been 326 passengers and 19 crew members aboard the flight, which was apparently a "training flight," and that there had been no injuries reported. 

“Following an assessment by the cockpit crew, a consultation with the technical department on site and in Frankfurt and an initial visual inspection, the aircraft flew back to Frankfurt," the spokesperson said. "There it will undergo an additional inspection."

You can watch the full, nearly four-minute-long video, below.